The sudden change in the tree population is obvious. - Whereas the green areas show forest coverage in China (beneath the blue line marking the border), the yellow-orange areas on the Russian side indicate deforestation-a sign that national policies impact forest conservation.
University of Bonn researchers studying how national policies affect forests in border regions. The sudden change in the tree population is obvious. Whereas the green areas show forest coverage in China (beneath the blue line marking the border), the yellow-orange areas on the Russian side indicate deforestation-a sign that national policies impact forest conservation. Source: earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest all images in original size . How do national policies impact deforestation? Researchers from the University of Bonn have looked into this question at the global scale and have found that, contrary to common assumptions, national strategies have a significant-and visible-influence on efforts to protect forest heritage. Their study has now been published in the journal "Global Environmental Change." A picture is said to say a thousand words, and researchers led by Professor David Wuepper from the Land Economics Group in the Institute for Food and Resource Economics at the University of Bonn took this as their inspiration to investigate the impact of national policies on forest coverage. They had the idea of using satellite images to analyze forests along the borders between countries.
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