Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest
Here, we show how a conservation–health care exchange in rural Borneo preserved globally important forest carbon and simultaneously improved human health and well-being, in a region of historically intense environmental destruction, widespread...
Chris Field
128d ago
New @PNASNews: Improving rural health care reduced #deforestation in an Indonesian park by 70% over 10 yrs—I Jones @HopkinsMarine, A MacDonald, S Hopkins, A Lund, ZYC Lui, M Barry @StanfordCIGH, G De Leo @DeLeoLab, S Sokolow @StanfordWoods & many others
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to be part of*... and many thanks to our fearless leader, @izzybeljones and the @DeLeoLab for roping me in! Here's the link to the paper
Nice case study of how climate connects to issues of social fairness and equity. Here, there are big wins for preservation of forest carbon when local communities are giving greater access to health care