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Ecological rainfall infrastructure: investment in trees for sustainable development
Author
Meine van Noordwijk, Sampurno Bruijnzeel, David Ellison, Douglas Sheil, Cindy Morris, Davids Sands, Victoria Gutierrez, Jane Cohen, Caroline A. Sullivan, Bruno Verbist, Daniel Murdiyarso, David Gaveau and Bart Muys
Year
2015
Publisher
ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins
City of Publication
Nairobi
Series Number
ASB Policy Brief 47
Number of Pages
6
Call Number
PB0098-15
Abstract:
In many parts of the world local people are convinced that forests, trees and rainfall are related in more than one way: forests and trees not only depend on rainfall but help to generate it. Scientists confronted with this perspective have always denied such effects, or at best been ‘agnostic’, as it seemed impossible in their data to find evidence. New evidence on credible mechanisms for forest and tree effects on rainfall is, however, emerging. It can revolutionize current climate negotiations that all focus on greenhouse gas emissions.
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