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Export Tariffs Combined with Public Investments As a Forest Conservation Policy Instrument

Schwerhoff, Gregor - 2017

that it is possible to combine export tariffs with public investments such that deforestation decreases, while agricultural …The forest conservation policy instrument REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is …. This article explores how far export tariffs on agricultural goods combined with public investments, could be used as a …

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Logging concessions, certification & protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon : forest impacts from combinations of development rights & land-use restrictions

Rico, Jimena; Panlasigui, Stephanie; Loucks, Colby J.; … - 2018

In this paper, we use geospatial data and difference-in-differences models to identify the deforestation effects …

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Deforestation and Forest Land Use-Theory, Facts and Policy Implications

Panda, Bhagirathi - 2013

The social value of forestry in the effective forestry zone in the north eastern region of India is greater than its its cost of access, harvesting plus the cost of securing property rights. In the north eastern region, the magnitude of this current resource extraction zone is quite large.Thus...

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Effects of protected areas on forest cover change and local communities : evidence from the Peruvian Amazon

Miranda, Juan José; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - 2014

Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether 'win-win'...

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Climate policy integration in a land use system with ecological thresholds

Lopez, Martin - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 19 (2019) 1/49, pp. 113-135

The land use sector is an area with high potential to pursue mitigation and adaptation goals alike. However, due to the complexity derived from managing landscapes with multiple objectives and the lack of tools to assess the outcome, this potential is presumably subtilized in practice. In order...

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RED versus REDD : biofuel policy versus forest conservation

Dixon, Peter B.; Meijl, Hans van; Rimmer, Maureen T.; … - In: Economic modelling 52 (2016), pp. 366-374

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What Drives Deforestation and What Stops it? A Meta-Analysis of Spatially Explicit Econometric Studies

Ferretti-Gallon, Kalifi; Busch, Jonah - 2014

We have constructed a comprehensive database of 117 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation published … in peer-reviewed academic journals from 1996-2013. We present a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops … deforestation. Population is consistently associated with greater deforestation, and poverty is consistently associated with lower …

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Synergies in the land use sector : what is the best policy approach when co-benefits and trade-offs are involved?

Lopez, Martin - In: Central European economic journal 6 (2019) 53, pp. 53-69

Mitigation and adaptation are the main strategies to address climate change. Both of them are interrelated instruments and key elements of an integral approach to tackle the phenomenon. This interrelation is particularly strong in the land use sector, an area in which practically any policy has...

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Politics of forests and environmental data : innovation from above, innovation from below, and conflicts over land use and property in Sweden

Alarcón, Cristián - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 78 (2023) 2, pp. 39-52

This paper offers an exploratory analysis of the links between the politics of forest and struggles over environmental data in Sweden. The term politics of data is used to analyse data production orientated to productivity-oriented forestry and the use of digital technologies that allow ordinary...

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Chapter 59 Land Use: Forest, Agriculture, and Biodiversity Competition

Sedjo, Roger A.; Simpson, R. David - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2979-3007). 2007

Since at least the time of von Thünen's contributions to the subject, economists have been interested in explaining land use in the hinterlands. This interest has grown with increasing societal demands on remaining forested areas and concern for the nonmarket resources generated by such...

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