Deforestation in China

Reducing Emissions

Deforestation will have a large emission on green house gases. “Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). REDD refers to steps designed to use market and financial incentives in order to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases. China may try to provide the financial incentives to farmers in order to reduce the heaters of land used and agree the protected areas. In order to monitor the process of the scheme, there are some measurements that China can use like satellite imagery and other date sources to check the process of the scheme.

Farming

Methods used by the farmers nowadays always depend on a high chemical input to maintain necessary fields. Also, intensive farming would decrease the soil nutrients and minerals that needed for crop growth. In order to rectify the situation, permaculture is a good concept can be referred. Permaculture means branch of ecological design, ecological engineering, and environmental design that develops sustainable architecture and self-maintained agricultural systems modelled from natural ecosystems (Hemenway, 2009). This concept emphasis on designing the land use, plant and animal species and interest for food, timber and other uses. These systems have low dependence on chemicals like pesticides with a strong positive impact on soil and water quality, and biodiversity.

Monitoring

There are several methods that can monitor deforestation. One method is “visual interpretation of aerial photos and satellite imagery that is labour-intensive but does not require a high-level training in computer processing or extensive computational resources.” (Ferraz, Vettorazzi, & Theobalo, 2009). Another method is that inviting professionals to analysis detailed digital images and high resolution satellite images to assess the area of land deforested. Although it might be a difficult task as the areas are really large, quantifying the deforestation rate and total area deforested is needed to...