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Forests

Forests are some of the planet's most critical ecosystems, acting as carbon sinks, biomass factories and homes to rich biodiversity. SEI research looks at the impacts of land-use change and how to combine forest protection with the growing demand for land, food, energy and green space.

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Governing bioeconomy pathways

Carbon lock-in

Projects and tools

Trase

Woman drawing water in Central Myanmar

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SIANI: Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative

SIANI

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How can we avoid another virus outbreak?

Focusing on biodiversity, biosafety and bioinformatics can offer a multi-dimensional strategy for effective virus risk management.

Feature
Land
Health
Governance
30 March 2020

A better Amazon road network for people and the environment

Which road projects offer high economic benefits combined with low environmental and social impacts?

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Children & bushmeat

Landscape correlates of bushmeat consumption and hunting in a post-frontier Amazonian region

Journal articles
Land
Economy
10 November 2017
Amazon

New data takes Trase soy supply chain mapping to the next level

Feature
Land
Economy
23 October 2017
Indonesia
Brazil

Eiffel Tower: Paris, France.

Second conference of the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence – calls for submissions now open

Feature
Land
Health
Governance
10 October 2017

A logging truck in the Argentinian Gran Chaco, where forests are being cleared to make way for agriculture.

Rents, actors, and the expansion of commodity frontiers in the Gran Chaco

Deforestation in Indonesia.

Scaling up deforestation-free production and trade with jurisdictions

Cattle in the Brazilian state of Pará. Despite low incomes cattle ranching remains a major driver of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

Explaining the persistence of low income and environmentally degrading land uses in the Brazilian Amazon

Journal articles
Land
Economy
30 September 2017
Amazon

A boy tilling soil

Is land a renewable resource?

Perspective
Land
Health
25 September 2017

Misty forest

The relative importance of subjective and structural factors for individual adaptation to climate change by forest owners in Sweden

Journal articles
Climate
Land
19 September 2017
Sweden

Global adaptation

The importance of socio-ecological system dynamics in understanding adaptation to global change in the forestry sector

Path in a forest

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) and biodiversity

Swedish forest

Analysis of Swedish forest owners’ information and knowledge-sharing networks for decision-making: insights for climate change communication and adaptation

Photo soil

Soil organic matter responses to anthropogenic forest disturbance and land use change in the eastern Brazilian Amazon

Journal articles
Land
7 March 2017
Brazil

The pygmy marmoset, also unique to the Amazon basin. Photo: Kevin Scholfield / Flickr

Habitat loss on Rondon’s marmoset potential distribution

Journal articles
Land
23 January 2017
Brazil

Stockhom, Sweden

The effect of forest owner decision-making, climatic change and societal demands on land-use change and ecosystem service provision in Sweden

Journal articles
Climate
Land
10 January 2017
Sweden

Pixelated picture of a map

Agent-based modelling: A tool for addressing the complexity of environment and development policy issues