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Tropical montane cloud forests are important and unique ecosystems in Costa Rica. However, a large percentage of them have been cleared since the 1950s to make way for agriculture. Cloudbridge Nature Reserve, a privately-owned reforestation project and research station in south-central Costa...
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Das LaForeT Projekt (Landscape Forestry in the Tropics) wurde vom Thünen-Institut für Waldwirtschaft in enger … Auswirkungen von Politikinstrumenten auf die Entwaldung und auf Aufforstungsprozesse sowie die Nachhaltigkeit der Landnutzung im …The LaForeT (Landscape Forestry in the Tropics) project has been conducted by the Thünen Institute of Forestry in close …
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The production of charcoal to meet cooking needs of urban households is one of the main causes of deforestation and … reduction in deforestation. We also investigate the impact of the stoves on cooking time of women, who are the default cooks of … deforestation of 0.04 ha/household/year. However, providing subsidies for stove purchases resulted in a larger reduction in charcoal …
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This report summarises existing knowledge on costs of sustainable forest management (SFM) in tropical and sub‐tropical forests. First, the scope of forest‐related cost studies and background information on definitions of and obstacles for SFM are given (Sections 1 and 2). The main part of...
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There are many causes, consequences, and connections of deforestation and forest poverty in the tropical world. This …. The first section is diagnostic, examining the drivers and consequences of deforestation and forest poverty. The second … deforestation. Additionally, promotion of some kinds of agroforestry can help to improve the ecological functions of degraded …
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A spatial econometric model is used to link road upgrading to forest clearing and biodiversity loss in the moist tropical forests of Bolivia, Cameroon, and Myanmar. Using 250-meter cells, the model estimates the relationship between the rate of forest clearing in a cell and its distance to the...
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conditions it affects deforestation. We use rich forest management unit-level panel data — including information on deforestation … models to identify the effect of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification on deforestation in Mexico, the country with … subgroup effects but are unable to reject the null hypothesis that certification does not affect deforestation. Although these …
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