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Articles | Volume 73, issue 2
Articles | Volume 73, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-151-2018
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Articles | Volume 73, issue 2
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19 Apr 2018
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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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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.
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