Fuzzy difference and data primitives: a transparent  approach for supporting different definitions  of forest in the context of REDD+

Comber, Alexis; Kuhn, Werner

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-151-2018

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The trouble with forest: definitions, boundaries and values

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Fuzzy difference and data primitives: a transparent approach for supporting different definitions of forest in the context of REDD+

Alexis Comber and Werner Kuhn

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Data and R Code L. Comber and W. Kuhn https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1188392

Short summary

REDD+ requires forests to be measured. However, many communities have their own concepts of forest with different meanings. Global forest inventories frequently ignore these conceptualizations. This paper describes an approach for generating alternative measures of forest simultaneously to support the international objectives of activities such as REDD+ and to reflect local concepts and semantics associated with forest.