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A team of eight experts has conducted an independent evaluation of eleven years (2004-2014) of implementation of the EU Action Plan on Forest Law Enforcement Governance andTrade (FLEGT), commissionedby the European Commission through the European Forest Institute. The Evaluation Report comprises...
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and shaped the role of land use, land-use change and forestry dynamics (LULUCF), making it an issue of global importance …
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This paper analyzes the role of afforestation-reforestation and timber management activities, and their major and secondary economic effects in stabilizing climate during the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. In particular, with a Computable General Equilibrium framework, the ICES...
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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 market for woody biomass by combining the integrated assessment model WITCH with the global dynamic forestry model GTM …
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forestry sector within climate mitigation. Improvements on database and modelling frameworks allow accounting for land … heterogeneity across and within regions and for land transfers between agriculture, grazing, and forestry. The forestry sector has … forestry practices. Results show that including forest carbon in the compliance strategy decreases European policy costs and …
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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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Agricultural and forestry activities cover the majority of the EU territory: in particular agriculture is the main lad … between 30 and 60 %, whereas forestry is the second. The role of agriculture as both a source of and as a sink of greenhouse … conditions in Europe. The effectiveness of the policy measures adopted so far in the agro-forestry sector to meet the Kyoto …
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traditionally used in forestry economics reflect. This essay analyses some challenges of accounting for such complexity. When forest …
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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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