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The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between land inequality and deforestation in the Brazilian … statistical evidence to support the existence of a direct relationship between land inequality and deforestation. Nevertheless …, when one takes into account the effects of land inequality on deforestation through its interaction with credit and land …
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The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land for this use …. Unlike direct land conversion, indirect land-use changes affecting deforestation are not immediately observable. They require … deforestation. This indirect land-use effect is shown to be a dynamic process materializing over 10 to 15 years. …
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Climate change and agriculture influence each other. The effects of climate change on agriculture seem to be predominantly negative, although studies show a large variation in impacts between crops and regions. To compensate for these effects, agriculture can either intensify or expand in area;...
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Targeted illegal harvesting of hardwood in the woodland of Namibia’s Kavango region threatens forest stands. In a transforming setting, where wood is increasingly traded through value chains on a globalized market, local harvesters have complex incentives but also a crucially important...
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forestland for the expansion of carbon sinks, focusing on how changes in forestland ownership affect deforestation and … urbanization and how subsequent changes in deforestation and urbanization affect GHG emissions, using South Korea as a case study …
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, but also policies that lead to forest gain in one case. Poverty does not appear as a driver of deforestation, but the co …. La pauvreté n’apparait pas comme un facteur de déforestation, mais la co-occurrence de la pauvreté et de la perte de …
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Intensity Analysis has become popular as a top-down hierarchical accounting framework to analyze differences among categories, such as changes in land categories over time. Some aspects of interpretation are straightforward, while other aspects require deeper thought. This article explains how...
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short-run, increases the average rate of deforestation and reduces the expected time for total conversion in the long run. …
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of deforestation. Interestingly, we show that uncertainty, even if it induces conversion postponement in the short …-run, increases the average rate of deforestation and reduces expected time for total conversion in the long run. Finally, we …
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conversion dynamics and discuss different policy scenarios on the basis of the relative long-run expected rate of deforestation …
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