Spracklen, DV, Reddington, CL and Gaveau, DLA (2015) Industrial concessions, fires and air pollution in Equatorial Asia. Environmental Research Letters, 10. 091001. ISSN 1748-9326
Abstract
Forest and peatland fires in Indonesia emit large quantities of smoke leading to poor air quality across Equatorial Asia. Marlier et al (2015 Environ. Res. Lett. 10 085005) explore the contribution of fires occurring on oil palm, timber (wood pulp and paper) and natural forest logging concessions to smoke emissions and exposure of human populations to the resulting air pollution. They find that one third of the population exposure to smoke across Equatorial Asia is caused by fires in oil palm and timber concessions in Sumatra and Kalimantan. Logging concessions have substantially lower fire emissions, and contribute less to air quality degradation. This represents a compelling justification to prevent reclassification of logging concessions into oil palm or timber concessions after logging. This can be achieved by including logged forests in the Indonesian moratorium on new plantations in forested areas.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015, IOP Publishing Ltd. Content from this work may be used under the terms of theCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. |
Keywords: | fire, deforestation, air quality, Indonesia, concessions |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Inst for Climate & Atmos Science (ICAS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2015 15:13 |
Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2015 15:13 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/9/091001 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
Identification Number: | 10.1088/1748-9326/10/9/091001 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:92754 |