Keywords:
Geography.
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Cultural property—Protection.
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Historic preservation.
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Cartography.
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Geographic information systems.
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Landscape architecture.
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I: General Overview of Ethiopian Church Forests -- 1. Understanding Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in and the surroundings of Ethiopian Church Forests -- 2. Estimation and mapping of Asabot Monastery Dry Afromontane Forest Carbon Stock Under Diverse Land Use Scenarios -- 3. Land cover changes and forest fragmentation on the surrounding of selected church forests in Ethiopia -- 4. Sacred Texts and Environmental Ethics: Lessons in Sustainability from Ethiopia -- Part II: Present Role and Future Challenges of Ethiopian Church Forests -- 5. The role of Ethiopian Church Forests for Soil Carbon Sequestration -- 6. Aboveground and Belowground Carbon Pools for Some Selected Native and Introduced Tree Species of Abune Teklehayimanot Church Forest, Welayita Sodo, Southern Ethiopia -- Part III: Structure and Diversity of Ethiopian Church Forests -- 7. Floristic Composition, Diversity and Regeneration Status of Woody Plants in Four Church Forests in Ethiopia -- 8. Diversity, Regeneration Status and Socio-Economic Importance of Tara Gedam, Abebaye and Fach Forests, Libokemkem District of South Gondar Administrative Zone, Northwestern Ethiopia -- 9. Woody Vegetation Composition and Structure of Church Forests in Southeast of Lake Tana, Northwest Ethiopia -- 10. Woody Species Composition, Diversity, Structure and Uses of Selected Church Forests in the Central Ethiopia -- Part IV: Restoration Options to the Surrounding Landscapes of Ethiopian Church Forests -- 11. Church Forests as Repositories for Forest Reproductive Material of Native Species and their Possible Role as Starting Points for the Restoration of Degraded Areas -- 12. Ecological Status and Plan for Connectivity of Fragmented Forests as a Means of Degraded Land Restoration in South Gonder, Ethiopia -- 13. Identifying Priority Areas for Conservation in Mojo River Watershed of Ethiopia using GIS-Based Erosion Risk Evaluation -- 14. Ethiopian church forests as monitoring towers in reconstructing climate change and its impacts and to make evidence-based climate-smart restoration efforts -- 15. Rehabilitation sites prioritization on base of remote sensing time series, erosion risk and woody biomass modelling.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 348 p. 89 illus., 69 illus. in color.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2022.
ISBN:
9783030866266
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86626-6
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-86626-6
Language:
English
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