Search Results - subject:"REFORESTATION"

Carbon, land and water: a global analysis of the hydrologic dimensions of climate change mitigation through afforestation / reforestation

Zomer, Robert; Trabucco, Antonio; van Straaten, Oliver; … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2006

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Why only few CDM projects? The case of reforestation projects and remote sensing

Brandt, Urs Steiner; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 13 (2013) 1, pp. 25-42

structure is feasible. In the case of reforestation projects, and with respect to both economic and sustainability criteria, our …

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A constraint satisfaction method applied to the problem of controlling the CO2 emission in the Legal Brazilian Amazon

Caetano, Marco Antonio Leonel; Gherardi, Douglas … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 392 (2013) 21, pp. 5322-5329

countries. Climate policies can induce the development of clean technology and offer incentives to accelerate reforestation. The … reforestation to achieve a prescribed short term target value for the atmospheric CO2 emission. Initially, a mathematical model is … investments in clean technology and reforestation. The investments to reduce the emissions of CO2 below a target value (400 …

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Analysis of costs and people's willingness to enroll in forest rehabilitation in Gorno Badakhshan, Tajikistan

Mislimshoeva, Bunafsha; Samimi, Cyrus; Kirchhoff, Joachim-F. - In: Forest Policy and Economics 37 (2013) C, pp. 75-83

financial investment is necessary for the reforestation of the severely degraded areas. In such areas, the State Forest Agency … region. SBA is a specific scheme of Payments for Ecosystem Services reforestation scheme. Local people participating in SBA … on the needed investments for reforestation activities. Indeed, the willingness to enroll in SBA of local people does not …

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Optimal control for forest management and conservation analysis in dehesa ecosystems

Cerdá, Emilio; Martín-Barroso, David - In: European Journal of Operational Research 227 (2013) 3, pp. 515-526

regeneration of already established ageing stands as a complement or even a substitute of actual reforestation practices. The …

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Keeping up appearances: Motivations for socially desirable responding in contingent valuation interviews

Börger, Tobias - In: Ecological Economics 87 (2013) C, pp. 155-165

The tendency to give socially desirable rather than true statements of willingness to pay (WTP) is an often reported form of bias in contingent valuation surveys. While previous research on this bias has exclusively focused on the detection of mode effects, the present study directly assesses a...

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Do farmers or governments make better land conservation choices? Evidence from China's Sloping Land Conversion Program

Kelly, Peter; Huo, Xuexi - In: Journal of Forest Economics 19 (2013) 1, pp. 32-60

In developing countries with small holdings, targeting payments-for-environmental-services prices to site-specific environmental benefits becomes administratively impractical. Instead, governments fix price and either dictate parcel enrollment or let farmers decide, which might be expected to...

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Role of Afforestation for Future Protection Against Disaster & Destruction : A Case Study on Super Cyclone Affected Jagatsinghpur District of Coastal Odisha

Kanungo, Dr Archana - 2013

Men have long dreampt a green land, a land which is free from pollution and filthy climatic condition. Recognizing the significance of climate variability on growth and development, the devastation due to uncertainty of disaster in the Indian climatic condition, the Government of India has...

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Growing green : the economic benefits of climate action

Deichmann, Uwe; Zhang, Fan - 2013

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Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Agriculture : The Heterogeneity of Abatement Costs in France

De Cara, S.; Jayet, P.A - 2013

This paper addresses the assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. The analysis focuses on the shadow prices associated with the reductions in the net emissions, taking into account the carbon sequestration by soils and trees. These estimates are based on a set of farm-unit linear...

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