Jonah Busch

How to Halt and Reverse Deforestation: Our comprehensive new review provides evidence-based solutions My blog about Busch and Ferretti-Gallon (REEP, 2023), including access to ungated pdf jonahbusch.com/how-to-halt-an…

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@jonahbusch @NatureClimate Can we create such an opportunity?

Our new paper in @NatureClimate! “Cost-effectiveness of natural forest regeneration and plantations for climate mitigation” nature.com/articles/s4155… We've mapped abatement cost ($/tCO2) for two common reforestation methods across 138 low- and middle-income countries...(thread)

@ForestsMatter @NatureClimate Great minds think alike. Definitely on our wishlist, if the opportunity arises!

@jonahbusch @NatureClimate Nice paper but would it be possible to look at ANR, mixed species plantations and agroforestry?

This was also a monster analysis that involved compiling a tons of exciting data, producing spatial layers, and synthesizing the data within an economic modeling framework. I'm biased, but a very cool example of interdisciplinary science that I will use in my teaching this fall.

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@RigelRobinson Great Wall of China looks pretty dope! Enjoy!

not a lot going on at the moment

What drives and halts tropical deforestation? Analyzing 24 years of data news.mongabay.com/2023/08/what-d…

@MaryKateMcCoy Here’s a 61-minute seminar on “What drives deforestation, and what stops it?” that I presented @BrenUCSB in November, 2021: ucsb.app.box.com/s/nh3ylflvuzqr… <<IMAGE 8>>

“What Drives and Stops Deforestation, Reforestation, and Forest Degradation? An Updated Meta-analysis” Our new paper in @ReepAere journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/JQACEHG… @KalifiFG

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Similarly, it would be convenient if democracy, peace, good governance, or secure land tenure, led to less deforestation. But they don’t.

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@LNJStokes Maybe the two are correlated, but we looked at their effect on deforestation separately. Just holding free and fair elections doesn't keep forests standing. Here's what we wrote in our paper. Wehkamp et al (2018) will go much deeper on this sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@jonahbusch Hi Jonah, thanks for the reply, brilliant that you're on here. So the correlation I assume exists between good forest governance and good general governance doesn't get the job done? Or is there not, in fact, a correlation?

Democracy, peace and good government don't help stem deforestation. Countries getting wealthier makes it worse. Indigenous occupants, paying for the forest to remain and enforcing protections all help. ecosystemmarketplace.com/articles/how-t…

@LNJStokes Hi Liam, the distinction is that good *forest* governance (e.g. forest law enforcement; effective community management...) reduces deforestation, but good *general* governance (things like rule of law, anti-corruption, government effectiveness and accountability...) doesn't.

Good governance being irrelevant but enforcing protections being helpful is a bit counter-intuitive. Not sure how you do one without the other.

How to best halt and reverse deforestation? Largest study of its kind finds answers ecosystemmarketplace.com/articles/how-t…

Major new review of econometric studies about what drives deforestation — and how can we stop it? (Spoiler alert: Indigenous land rights are key.) conservation.org/blog/what-driv… @ConservationOrg @TenureFacility

🌲🌏 Proud to co-author a comprehensive review on halting & reversing deforestation with @jonahbusch. Discover what shapes our forests. Thanks @ConservationOrg & @UBC. Read: conservation.org/blog/what-driv…