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Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Recent climate talks in Copenhagen reaffirmed the crucial role of reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). Creating and strengthening indigenous lands and other protected areas represents an effective, practical, and immediate REDD strategy that addresses both biodiversity and climate crises at once.

Source: PLoS Biology

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000331

Authors: Taylor H. Ricketts, Britaldo Soares-Filho, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Daniel Nepstad, Alexander Pfaff, Annie Petsonk, Anthony Anderson, Doug Boucher, Andrea Cattaneo, Marc Conte, Ken Creighton, Lawrence Linden, Claudio Maretti, Paulo Moutinho, Roger Ullman, Ray Victurine

Institutions: World Wildlife Fund, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Global Environment Facility, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Duke University, Environmental Defense Fund, WWF-Brasil, Union of Concerned Scientists, Stanford University, Wildlife Conservation Society

Language: English

Topic: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Climate action, Life on land

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $5,500

Funder: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

OpenAlex ID: W2293845721

FWCI: 14.93

Cites: 27

Cited by: 240

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