The impact of charcoal production on forest degradation : a case study in Tete, Mozambique
Charcoal production for urban energy consumption is a main driver of forest degradation in sub Saharan Africa. Urban growth projections for the continent suggest that the relevance of this process will increase in the coming decades. Forest degradation associated to charcoal production is difficult to monitor and commonly overlooked and underrepresented in forest cover change and carbon emission estimates. We use a multitemporal dataset of very high-resolution remote sensing images to map kiln locations in a representative study area of tropical woodlands in central Mozambique. The resulting maps provided a characterization of the spatial extent and temporal dynamics of charcoal production. Using an indirect approach we combine kiln maps and field information on charcoal making to describe the magnitude and intensity of forest degradation linked to charcoal production, including aboveground biomass and carbon emissions. Our findings reveal that forest degradation associated to charcoal production in the study area is largely independent from deforestation driven by agricultural expansion and that its impact on forest cover change is in the same order of magnitude as deforestation. Our work illustrates the feasibility of using estimates of urban charcoal consumption to establish a link between urban energy demands and forest degradation. This kind of approach has potential to reduce uncertainties in forest cover change and carbon emission assessments in sub-Saharan Africa.
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2016 |
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2016 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11 |
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Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site - 11(2016), 9 vom: 15. Sept. |
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Englisch |
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Sedano, F [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Revised 10.01.2021 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094020 |
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