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1/Friday we made it! We saw briefly/incompletely how #pollen #beetles preserved in #peat can shed light on long term #ecological change. There are other 'proxies' + the #peatland #archaeological record, esp rich in 🇮🇪, a remarkable 'archive' of past people/environments/climate 
2/#Peat is remarkable for so many reasons, long regarded as of little 'use', now known to be an #ecosystem 'superstar' (TBD further tomorrow!) key for preservation of #Palaeoenvironmental + #Archaeological record. Photo: woody fen peat in auger @Calum_Sweeney_ @EcomuseumsLive
3/In this sense, we can think of #Peatlands as representing an intersection between how we understand long term #ecological change, #ClimateChange, human activity/impact + data key for #Conservation #Rehabilitation #Restoration of #Ecosystems Image 1: From Book Image 2!
1/10. Taking the challenge of condensing our new paper into a tweeted summary! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
2/10. Incentives matter… or do they?
We studied an incentive scheme to reduce Indonesia’s #peatland #fires and found fear of enforcement & public health concerns shape behavior more than incentives.
We studied an incentive scheme to reduce Indonesia’s #peatland #fires and found fear of enforcement & public health concerns shape behavior more than incentives.
3/10. We used #QCA to compare 10 #FireFreeVillages - a scheme to incentivise small farmers to reduce fire use (aprildialog.com/en/?s=FFVP). If villages reduce local fires, they are rewarded with US$7,000 to support community projects.
