Dr.

Henry SCHEYVENS

Training on tree species identification for local communities in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, organised by the Foundation for People and Community Development and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

Thai farmers plant eucalyptus trees on their unused farmlands with poor fertility soils to raise their incomes and in response to inducements from the Government. The conversion of unused farmlands to eucalyptus can contribute to climate change mitigation as the growing trees sequester carbon. To estimate the contribution of eucalyptus plantations...

In this study, we investigated trends in the use of remote sensing (RS) to address some major global environmental issues to see if it is being increasingly or decreasingly used to address each issue. We considered several land, water, air, and integrated Earth system issues. Of the 12 environmental issues we considered, there was an increasing...

In this study we tested the impacts of three fast pansharpening methods – Intensity-Hue-Saturation (IHS), Brovey Transform (BT), and Additive Wavelet Transform (AWT) – on the classification of sugarcane in a Landsat 8 image (bands 1-7), and proposed an ensemble pansharpening approach that combines the pixel-level information from the IHS and BT...

多くの発展途上国において、森林の減少・劣化からの排出削減活動（REDD＋）は森林と気候変動緩和に関する重要な政策課題として認識され、国家を主体とする体制の構築が進められる。一方で、森林破壊の原因は木材伐採、農業開発、地域の貧困問題、土地利用計画、インフラストラクチャーの開発といった多岐に渡り、また、REDD＋をめぐる議論は、先住民族をはじめ、森林に依存した生活を営む人々の参加と権利に関する問題や生物多様性の保全と不可分である。このように、REDD＋の実施には、森林以外の分野を含む省庁横断的なアプローチが不可欠であり、地域住民を含む多様なアクターが意思決定プロセスに参加できるガバナンスの構築が求められる。 本研究は、国レベルにおけるREDD＋の体制を検証し、その実施に向けた課題について...

REDD+ projects are invariably complex. There is a need to extract and present the knowledge and lessons that are being generated by them in a systematic and accessible manner. The IGES publication REDD+ Projects: Snapshots of selected REDD+ project designs aims to contribute to meeting this need. This report aims to present a succinct overview of...

Community Based Forest Biomass Monitoring (CBFBM) is the monitoring of forest biomass by communities. It is a form of monitoring that ultimately aims to be “driven” and “owned” by the local communities and “guided” and “facilitated” by outside experts. The information that is generated from the monitoring aids the communities in making wise...