Carbon Sink Plantations in the Ecuadorian Andes

Impacts of the Dutch FACE-PROFAFOR monoculture tree plantations' project on indigenous and peasant communities

Joint Research of Acción Ecológica and WRM - May 2005

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TABLE OFCONTENTS
4.4.2.2 Environmental Impact Assessment
4.4.2.3 Assessment of Social Impacts
4.4.2.4 Species used and difficulties in adapting to the
Andean environment
4.4.2.5 Impacts on the Paramo environment: the soil
4.4.2.5.1 Hydrology
4.4.2.5.2 Carbon sequestering or more emissions?

5. CONCLUSIONS
5.1 Social impacts: the problems for the local population
5.2 Environmental issues: Impacts on the Paramo
5.3 Forestry issues: the disaster of plantations
5.4 Certification: How can these plantations have been certified
5.5 The dangerous challenge of attempting to fix carbon in trees prone
to catch fire
5.6 A Dutch absurdity on Ecuadorian lands

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