This paper studies the interactions between political and economic incentives to foster forest conversion in Indonesian districts. Using a district-level panel data set from 2001 to 2016, we analyze variation in remotely sensed forest loss and forest fires as well as measures of land use...

Every government that controls an exhaustible resource must decide whether to exploit it or to conserve and thereby let the subsequent government decide whether to exploit or conserve. This paper develops a theory of this situation and shows when a small probability that some future government...

This paper studies the interactions between political and economic incentives to foster forest conversion in Indonesian districts. Using a district-level panel data set from 2001 to 2016, we analyze variation in remotely sensed forest loss and forest fires as well as measures of land use...

Han pasado 30 años desde la adopción del Convenio sobre Pueblos Indígenas y Tribales, 1989 (núm. 169) de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) y, a pesar de que los Estados de América Latina reconocieron plenamente los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, este continúa siendo uno...

What Forest Environmental Tax is -- Forest Environmental Tax in Japan -- Tap Water Source Conservation Fund -- Forest Environmental Tax in Other Countries -- Optimization of Forest Environmental Tax -- Optimization of Water Source Conservation Fund -- Environmental Tax and Stackelberg Game.

"The disappearance of China's naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country's history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China's early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline,...

The wicked problem of forest policy / William Nikolakis and John L. Innes -- Why forests matter? / Frances Seymour -- Forest certification and forest use: A comprehensive analysis / Fred Cubbage and Erin Sills -- REDD+ meets local realities / Arild Vatn, Maria Nantongo and Raymond Samndong --...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Time Line -- 1. Puszcza: Of Forests and Time -- 2. The Forester -- 3. Scientists and the Communist Past: Syndromes, Disorders, and a Proper Elite -- 4. Postpeasant Cosmopolitics: Man of the Forest -- 5. Borderline...

Conservation of Indonesia's forests in historical and political context -- Formal and informal structures of Indonesian conservation -- A REDD herring : Why clearer land tenure, transparency and governance will not make REDD work -- Moratorium and One Map : The Norway-Indonesia Bilateral...

The forest conservation policy instrument REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is designed to compensate governments of tropical countries for their efforts to conserve forests. Food insecure countries that are specialized in agriculture and have weak...

The research aims at assessing the impacts of the Benefit Sharing Mechanism (BSM) pilot policy on the socioeconomic factors and natural-resource management in the co-management area between the Bach Ma National Park and the Thuong Nhat community. This is a new approach in Special-Use Forests...