Citizens Produce Forest And Emissions Data Equal In Quality To Government Employees

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 07:40 in Earth & Climate

Protecting carbon-storing forests in the developing world may be easier than mobilizing government bureaucracies; a recent paper finds that local communities, using simple tools like ropes and sticks, can produce forest carbon data on par with results by government employees using high-tech devices.   read more

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