The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest and an important constituent of the global biosphere … funding to protect the Amazon rainforest focuses on benefits from reduced carbon emissions. This paper examines an additional … help finance Amazon rainforest protection. The analysis finds that mean willingness to pay to avoid forest losses projected …

A rainforest can be modeled as a dynamic asset subject to various risks, including risk of fire. Any small part of the … used for deriving the marginal value of standing (unburnt) rainforest, equivalent to the expected discounted value loss …

The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest and most biodiverse, represents a global public good of which 15 percent has …