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Management Challenges for Multiple-Species Boreal Forests

Crépin, Anne Sophie - 2003

traditionally used in forestry economics reflect. This essay analyses some challenges of accounting for such complexity. When forest …

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Population Growth and Forest Sustainability in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Jingwa, Brian - 2011

Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...

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Deforestation and Welfare: Evidence from Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...

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Institutions and forest management: A case study from Swat, Pakistan

Kruseman, Gideon; Pellegrini, Lorenzo - 2008

Deforestation in the North western part of Pakistan is a long standing problem. The Forestry Department, as formal … further reform the Forestry Department, the question is whether organizational reform is the answer. We think there are more …

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REDD in the carbon market: a general equilibrium analysis

Bosello, Francesco; Eboli, Fabio; Parrado, Ramiro; … - 2010

Deforestation is a major source of CO2 emissions, accounting for around 17% of total annual anthropogenic carbon release. While the cost estimates of reducing deforestation rates vary considerably depending on model assumptions, it is widely accepted that emissions reductions from avoided...

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The economic and environmental effects of an EU ban on illegal logging imports: Insights from a CGE assessment

Bosello, Francesco; Parrado, Ramiro; Rosa, Renato - 2010

Illegal logging is widely recognized as a major economic problem and one of the causes of environmental degradation. Increasing awareness of its negative effects has fostered a wide range of proposals to combat it by major international conservation groups and political organizations. Following...

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Carbon Storage and Bioenergy: Using Forests for Climate Mitigation

Favero, Alice; Mendelsohn, Robert; Sohngen, Brent - 2016

The carbon mitigation literature has separately considered using forests to store carbon and as a source of bioenergy. In this paper, we look at both options to reach a 2°C mitigation target. This paper combines the global forest model, GTM, with the IAM WITCH model to study the optimal use of...

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Practical Issues Concerning Temporary Carbon Credits in the CDM

Dutschke, Michael; Schlamadinger, Bernhard - 2003

Afforestation and reforestation (AR) projects in the Clean Development Mechanism are able to create emission permits that can be accounted against the industrialized countries' commitments for limiting their greenhouse gas emissions, as agreed under the Kyoto Protocol. The discussion of how to...

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Can Permanence be Insured? Consideration of some Technical and Practical Issues of Insuring Carbon Credits from Afforestation and Reforestation

Wong-Leung, Jenny P.; Dutschke, Michael - 2003

Greenhouse gas (GHG) removals by afforestation and reforestation project activities under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are vulnerable to a variety of risks and uncertainties, resulting in the partial or total reversal of such removals. Hence, GHG removals from these...

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The Role of Forestry Sinks in the CDM - Analysing the Effects of Policy Decisions on the Carbon Market

Jung, Martina - 2003

The details on rules and modalities for the inclusion of forestry projects in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are … different policy decisions concerning the inclusion of CDM forestry sink enhancement projects in the first commitment period of … the climate regime (2008-2012). Our analysis is based on the development of marginal forestry cost curves which are …

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