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Carbon in Drylands: Desertification, Climate Change and Carbon Finance a Unep-undp-unccd Technical Note for Prepared on Behalf of Unep by Unep-wcmc Technical Note: Carbon in Drylands -desertification, Climate Change and Carbon Finance

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Disturbance Patterns in Southern Rocky Mountain Forests

Planning road network in mountain forests using GIS and Analytic Hierarchical Process (AHP)

Forest road construction is the most costly operation in forestry. Road designing and construction in unsuitable areas may increase construction and maintenance costs and also cause many environmental impacts. Therefore, it is required to pay more attention to forest road design. In this research, we tried to introduce an appropriate method for locating forest roads using GIS and AHP simultaneo...

Endangered Mountains: Emerging Development Patterns in the Catskill Mountain Region

In the mountains north of New York City a number of cities and towns are being absorbed by the suburbs of one of the largest cities on the planet. The existence of independent communities has created some confusion in terms of classification in the past. Since 1970, Orange County has variously been classified as part of the Newburgh-Middletown Metropolitan Area, the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh Metrop...

Changing Climate Suitability for Forests in Yellowstone & the Rocky Mountains