Communications Earth & Environment (Sep 2022)

Targeted land management strategies could halve peatland fire occurrences in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

  • Alexander J. Horton,
  • Jaakko Lehtinen,
  • Matti Kummu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00534-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Land management scenarios that restore degraded swamp shrubland areas to swamp forest through blocking minor canal systems could substantially reduce peatland fire occurrence and associated greenhouse gas emissions, according to a machine learning and numerical modelling study.