[Forest-list] 2014-06-15 NRMI: This Issue: Illicit Drugs, Forests, Grasslands and Some Other Good Things.

Sun Jun 15 13:15:42 EEST 2014

*NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST*

This Issue:*/Illicit Drugs, Forests, Grasslands/*and Some Other Good Things.

*ILLICIT DRUGS, FORESTS, GRASSLANDS*.- The cultivation or conversion of 
forest and grasslands to grow illicit drugs is a global concern. Here 
are some sites that may be of interest.

Álvarez, María D. 2007. *Environmental damage from illicit drug crops in 
Colombia* 
<http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-5462-4_8>. World 
Forests 5: 133-147. Abstract.

Barraclough, Solon; Ghimire, Krishna. 1990. *The social dynamics of 
deforestation in developing countries: Principal issues and research 
priorities* 
<http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9%2F%28httpAuxPages%29%2F6CBA6EA1A272E2CA80256B67005B60F4%2F$file%2Fdp16.pdf>. 
Discussion Paper 16. 46 p.

Bijker, Wietske. 1997. *Radar for rain forest - A monitoring system for 
land cover change in the Colombian Amazon* 
<http://edepot.wur.nl/211285>. ITC Pub. 53. 136 p.

Dyer, Zach 2014. *Protecting indigenous land rights could help deter 
drug trafficking in Central America, says new report* 
<http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/03/18/protecting-indigenous-land-rights-could-help-deter-drug-trafficking-in-central-america-says-new-report>*. 
*Tico Times

FAO. 2005. *Best practices for improving law compliance in the forest 
sector* <http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/a0146e/A0146E00.htm#TopOfPage>. 
FAO Forestry Paper 145.

Ferrell, David L. n.d.. *Law Enforcement and Investigations* 
<http://www.interpol.int/content/download/22186/208252/version/1/file/David%20Ferrell,%20USDA%20Forest%20Service%20-%20Law%20Enforcement%20Investigations.pdf>. 
USDA Forest Service. 22 slides

Hisakawa, Nao et al. 2013.*Mapping the porosity of international border 
to pedestrian traffic: a comparative data classification approach to a 
study of the border region in Austria, Italy, and Slovenia* 
<http://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Pages/jankowski/cagis_paper_jan2013.pdf>, 
Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 40:1, 18-27

Killeen, T. J., et al. 2008. *Total historical land-use change in 
eastern Bolivia: Who, where, when, and how much?* 
<http://www.mtnforum.org/sites/default/files/publication/files/1652.pdf>Ecology 
and Society 13(1): 36.

Lisita, A. et al. 2012. *Detecting potential sites of cannabis sativa 
plantations by object-based, SPOT 5 HRG image classification* 
<http://mtc-m18.sid.inpe.br/col/sid.inpe.br/mtc-m18/2012/05.15.13.30/doc/054.pdf?metadatarepository=&mirror=urlib.net/www/2011/03.29.20.55>. 
Proceedings of the 4th GEOBIA, May 7-9, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. p.180. 6 p.

McIntyre, David L.; Weeks, John R. 2002*. **Environmental Impacts of 
Illegal Immigration on the Cleveland National Forest in California* 
<http://geography.unt.edu/%7Ehudak/ex-immi.pdf>. 15 p.

Mitchell, Kirk. 2009. *International drug cartels infiltrating 
Colorado's national forests.* 
<http://www.denverpost.com/ci_13212051>Denver Post.

Moutinho, Paulo; Schwartzman, Stephan eds2005. *Tropical Deforestation 
and Climate Change* 
<http://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/4930_TropicalDeforestation_and_ClimateChange.pdf>. 
IPAM. 132 p.

Nellemann, C., INTERPOL Environmental Crime Programme (eds). 2012. 
*Green Carbon, Black Trade: Illegal Logging, Tax Fraud and Laundering in 
the Worlds Tropical Forests. A Rapid Response Assessment.* 
<http://www.unep.org/pdf/RRAlogging_english_scr.pdf>**United Nations 
Environment Programme, GRIDArendal. 72 p.

Ruble, Marcia; Rezemde, Alexandre. 2001. *GIS in Wide-Area Surveillance 
Systems.* 
<http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc01/professional/papers/pap239/p239.htm>**

Ruiz, Alexander Rincon. 2013. *Coca crops, forests, people and anti-drug 
policy in Colombia: towards the understanding of a complex relationship* 
<http://ddd.uab.cat/pub/tesis/2013/hdl_10803_117303/arr1de1.pdf>. 
Thesis. 147 p.

Sánchez-Cuervo AM, et al. 2012. *Land Cover Change in Colombia: 
Surprising Forest Recovery Trends between 2001 and 2010* 
<http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0043943>. 
PLoS ONE 7(8): e43943. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043943

Solomon, Chris. 2001. *Ancient trees falling victim to illegal drugs* 
<http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20011125&slug=hottimber25m0>. 
Seattle Times.

UNODC. 2005. *Colombia Coca Cultivation Survey* 
<https://www.unodc.org/pdf/andean/Part3_Colombia.pdf>. 96 p.

UNODC. 2006? *Part 2. Environmental effects of illicit drug cultivation 
and processing* 
<http://www.unodc.org/pdf/andean/Andean_report_Part2.pdf>. 30 p.

Wang, Jianjun. 2013. *Unsupervised detection of opium poppy fields in 
Afghanistan from EO-1 HYPERION.* 
<http://dspace.hil.unb.ca:8080/bitstream/handle/1882/45618/Jianjun_Wang_MScE_2013.pdf?sequence=1>**Thesis. 
115 p.

*SOME PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST*

D'Annunzio, Rémi et al. 2014. *Global forest land--use change from 1990 
to 2010: an update to a global remote sensing survey of forests 
<http://foris.fao.org/static/idf/RSS_2010update.pdf>*. FAO. 6 p.

Daniel, Isaura. 2014. *Arabs to undergo forest surveillance training in 
Brazil 
<http://www2.anba.com.br/noticia/21863584/sustainable-development/arabs-to-undergo-forest-surveillance-training-in-brazil/>*. 
Brazil-Arab News Agency.

Danielsen, F., et al. 2014. *Linking public participation in scientific 
research to the indicators and needs of international environmental 
agreements. 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12024/abstract>* 
Conserv. Lett. 7(1):12-24. Abstract.

Darby, Andrew. 2014. *Tasmania's forests now a defining national issue. 
<http://www.smh.com.au/national/tasmanias-forests-now-a-defining-national-issue-20140419-36xrj.html>* 
The Sydney Morning Herald.

Davies, A.L., et al. 2014. *Improving the application of long-term 
ecology in conservation and land management. 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12163/abstract> 
*J. Appl. Ecol. 51(1):63-70. Abstract.

Day, M., et al. 2014. *Relationships between tree species diversity and 
above-ground biomass in Central African rainforests: implications for 
REDD 
<http://www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publication/4240.html>*. 
Environ. Conserv. 41(1):64-72. Abstract.

de Andrade, R.B., et al. 2014. *Biotic congruence in humid tropical 
forests: a multi-taxa examination of spatial distribution and responses 
to forest disturbance 
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X13003361>*. 
Ecol. Indic. 36:572-581. Abstract.

de la Hera, I., et al. 2013. *Exotic tree plantations and avian 
conservation in northern Iberia: a view from a nest-box monitoring study 
<http://abc.museucienciesjournals.cat/volum-36-2-2013/exotic-tree-plantations-and-avian-conservation-in-northern-iberia-a-view-from-a-nest-box-monitoring-study/?lang=en>*. 
Anim. Biodivers. Conserv. 36(2):153-163. Abstract.

Deb, S., et al. 2014. *An alternative approach for delineating 
eco-sensitive zones around a wildlife sanctuary applying geospatial 
techniques <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24338098>*. Environ. 
Monit. Assess. 186(4):2641-2651 Abstract.

Dewan, Agnela 2014. *New tech, better map on tap to protect Indonesian 
forests <http://www.trust.org/item/20140521034227-hsn4m/>*. CIFOR. Video

Dixon, A., et al. 2013. *The problem of raptor electrocution in Asia: 
case studies from Mongolia and China 
<http://www.falcons.co.uk/newsdetail.asp?id=218>*. Bird Conserv. Int. 
23(4):520-529. Abstract.

Dong, J.W., et al. 2014. *A 50-m forest cover map in Southeast Asia from 
ALOS/PALSAR and its application on forest fragmentation assessment 
<http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0085801>*. 
PLoS ONE 9(1):e85801.

Drielsma, M., et al. 2014. *The Biodiversity Forecasting Toolkit: 
answering the 'how much', 'what', and 'where' of planning for 
biodiversity persistence 
<http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/elsevier/the-biodiversity-forecasting-toolkit-answering-the-how-much-what-and-70newTYEhF>*. 
Ecol. Model. 274:80-91. Abstract.

Edwards, D.P., et al. 2014. *Land-sharing versus land-sparing logging: 
reconciling timber extraction with biodiversity conservation. 
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23955803>* Global Change Biol. 
20(1):183-191. Abstract.

Ellis, M.M., et al. 2014. *Spatially explicit power analyses for 
occupancy-based monitoring of wolverine in the U.S. Rocky Mountains 
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24001256>*. Conserv. Biol. 
28(1):52-62. Abstract.

Fisher, J.T., et al. 2014. *Management approaches of conservation areas: 
differences in woody vegetation structure in a private and a national 
reserve. 
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629913004523>* S. 
Afr. J. Bot. 90:146-152. Abstract.

Fisher, Jolene T. et al. 2013. *Savanna woody vegetation classification 
-- now in 3-D 
<http://www.cis.rit.edu/DocumentLibrary/admin/uploads/CIS000209.pdf>*. 
Applied Vegetation Science.

Foss, Mark. 2014. *Access to state-owned forests critical for rural 
smallholders, study finds. 
<http://blog.cifor.org/22245/access-to-state-owned-forests-critical-for-rural-smallholders-study-finds#.U2Ev8dhOXq4>* 
Forests News.

Gove, Jeffery H. et al. 2013. *A comprehensive comparison of 
perpendicular distance sampling methods for sampling downed coarse woody 
debris. 
<http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/content/86/1/129.full?sid=c290e058-7942-41b6-936a-ba5c396f4450>* 
Forestry 86(1):129-143.

Grim, John; Tucker, Mary Evelyn. 2014. *Ecology and Religion. 
<http://islandpress.org/ip/books/book/islandpress/E/bo8053388.html>* 
Island Press. 280 p. Description. From Tim Gregoire and Mary Evelyn 
Tucker, Yale Univ.

Grosenbaugh, L. R. 1967*. STX--Fortran-4 program for estimates of tree 
populations from 3P sample-tree-measurements. 
<http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_rp013/psw_rp013.pdf>* 
Berkeley, Calif., Pacific SW. Forest & Range Exp. Sta. 76 pp., illus. 
(U.S. Forest Serv. Res. Paper PSW-13, 2nd ed., rev.)

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