The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world … deforestation. Using generalized linear mixed models and generalised estimating equations, we were able to calculate expected …

of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve. Team … depending on whether preferences exhibit desert elation or desert guilt. Our notion of desert generalizes distributional concern … models to situations in which effort choices affect the distribution perceived to be fair; in particular, desert nests …

averse around their meritocratically determined endogenous reference points. In a fair tournament sufficiently large desert … average. In an unfair tournament, where one agent is advantaged, the equilibrium is symmetric in the absence of desert, but … asymmetric in the presence of desert. We find that desert concerns can undermine the standard conclusion that competition for a …

Individual countries considering participating in a Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD …) mechanism need information on what it would cost them to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and how to … the country would benefit from such sales; (iii) how they might be able to actually reduce deforestation so as to generate …

. In this context, this study sheds light on the fusion of legal and economic elements with regard to deforestation in … Brazil and water pollution in India. Part I of this study is theoretical modeling and Part II is estimation of the models …

they can achieve. The present paper, elucidates the issue of deforestation and degradation in reserved forests of Assam in …

last decades, the deforestation was linked mainly to economic factors than to policies conducted by the government. The …

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 …

Shifting cultivation is often blamed as a principal cause of deforestation in tropical Africa. It is claimed that the … dramatic conclusion that shifting cultivators are causing deforestation in the forested region of Cameroon. …

The present working paper includes a literature review of deforestation drivers both at the international level and … dynamics of land use change as well as to the understanding of the causes of deforestation in Mexico. The results provide …