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In 2007, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) endorsed the Bali Action Plan to pay for reductions in tropical deforestation. While many saw these initiatives as complementary,...
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This study examined the effect of sustainable forest management schemes on forest conservation using remote sensing …
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The conservation of biodiversity is a major environmental issue, one that promises to remain at or near the top of the … role to play in helping to develop and evaluate conservation strategies. Because biodiversity is at risk in large part … affairs, not from better biology alone. Economists can help set priorities to allocate scarce conservation resources where …
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concentrated. Biologists and conservation advocates have advanced a number of arguments both that “biodiversity” is imperiled as … services of forest ecosystems will prove sufficient to motivate their conservation on a large scale. Other instruments for … conservation must, then, be employed if areas under intense pressure for conversion are to be preserved. …
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Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has been proposed as a potentially inexpensive and plentiful source of emission abatement to supplement other longterm climate policies. However, critics doubt that REDD credits are environmentally equivalent to domestic emission...
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A "conservation good" (such as a tropical forest) is owned by a seller who is tempted to consume (or cut), but a buyer … benefits more from conservation. The seller does conserve if the buyer is expected to buy, but the buyer is unwilling to pay as … long as the seller conserves. This contradiction implies that the market for conservation cannot be efficient and …
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associated with increasing real demand for biodiversity conservation, then investment to protect remaining diversity should grow … in this case. The role of conservation effort in addressing environmental problems is examined through state protection … of land and the regulation of trade in endangered species, two important means of biodiversity conservation. This …
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In this note we discuss how a cost–benefit analysis could be formulated in a second-best world where lump-sum taxation is not available. The question is how the government's budget is balanced. Different options are available. A value added tax or an income tax or a profit tax could be...
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The forest conservation policy instrument REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is … are specialized in agriculture and have weak institutions, are likely to face difficulties to enforce forest conservation … forest conservation policy mix in such contexts. We first show empirically that structural constraints to forest conservation …
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This chapter provides an overview of the challenges of carbon market funding for forest conservation in the Brazilian …
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