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Institutions and Forest Management : A Case Study from Swat, Pakistan
Pellegrini, Lorenzo; Kruseman, Gideon <jr.> - 2008
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 … limiting bottlenecks to sustainable forest management in Pakistan. De facto property rights are not as simple as denoted by …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181671
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Deforestation and welfare : evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
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Population growth and forest sustainability in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Jingwa, Brian A. - 2011
Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410348
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The potential of REDD+ for carbon sequestration in tropical forests : supply curves for carbon storage for Kalimantan, Indonesia
Indrajaya, Yonky; Van der Werf, Edwin; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2015
We study the potential of tropical multi-age multi-species forests for sequestering carbon in response to financial incentives from REDD+. The use of reduced impact logging techniques (RIL) allows a forest owner to apply for carbon credits whereas the use of conventional logging techniques (CL)...
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Does Eco-Certification Stem Tropical Deforestation? Forest Stewardship Council Certification in Mexico
Blackman, Allen - 2015
Since its creation more than two decades ago as a voluntary market-based approach to improving forest management, forest certification has proliferated rapidly in developing countries. Yet we know little about whether and under what conditions it affects deforestation. We use rich forest...
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The Future of Forests : Emissions from Tropical Deforestation with and Without a Carbon Price, 2016-2050
Busch, Jonah - 2015
We project the future of tropical deforestation from 2016-2050 with and without carbon pricing policies, based on 18 million observations of historical forest loss spanning 101 tropical countries. Our spatial projections of future deforestation incorporate topography, accessibility, protected...
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The impact of ICT penetration on deforestation : a panel data evidence
Yılmaz, Rasim; Koyuncu, Cuneyt - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 19 (2019) 4, pp. 345-364
A growing number of case studies and reports suggest that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play an important role in fighting against deforestation, and the penetration of ICT help decrease deforestation in a different part of world's forests. The aim of this study is to test...
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Deforestation and Emerging Greenhouse Gas Compliance Regimes : Toward a Global Environmental Law of Forests, Carbon, and Climate Governance
Boyd, William - 2012
This chapter reviews the current status of and prospects for efforts to include emissions from deforestation (and international forest carbon activities in general) in emerging greenhouse gas compliance regimes at the international level; future iterations of the European Union Emissions Trading...
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Designing REDD Schemes When Forest Users Are Not Forest Landowners : Evidence from a Survey-Based Experiment in Kenya
Veronesi, Marcella; Schloendorn, Tim; Zabel, Astrid; … - 2015
This study contributes to the debate on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD ) and the relationship between land tenure and forest conservation. We investigate policies that create alternative livelihood options for people around REDD forests who are forest users...
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