Managing fire risk during drought: the influence of certification and El Niño on fire-driven forest conversion for oil palm in Southeast Asia

Noojipady, Praveen; Morton, Douglas C.; Schroeder, Wilfrid; Carlson, Kimberly M.; Huang, Chengquan; Gibbs, Holly K.; Burns, David; Walker, Nathalie F.; Prince, Stephen D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-749-2017

Articles | Volume 8, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-749-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-749-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 3

Research article

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21 Aug 2017

Research article |

| 21 Aug 2017

Managing fire risk during drought: the influence of certification and El Niño on fire-driven forest conversion for oil palm in Southeast Asia

Praveen Noojipady, Douglas C. Morton, Wilfrid Schroeder, Kimberly M. Carlson, Chengquan Huang, Holly K. Gibbs, David Burns, Nathalie F. Walker, and Stephen D. Prince

Data sets

Forest Change 2000–2014 Global Land Analysis & Discovery group, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland http://glad.umd.edu/

Tree plantations Global Forest Watch http://www.globalforestwatch.org/

Palm oil concessions Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/id/Global/seasia/Indonesia/Code/Forest-Map/en/index.html

Active Fire Data The National Aeronautics and Space Administration https://earthdata.nasa.gov/

Oil Palm Concessions Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil http://www.rspo.org/

Oil palm concessions Sawit Watch http://sawitwatch.or.id/

VIIRS Active Fire Detection Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland http://viirsfire.geog.umd.edu/