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An economic assessment of options for operating within plantation forestry water entitlements and tightening cap and trade policy
Regan, Courtney M.; Connor, Jeffery D.; Iftekhar, Md. Sayed - In: The Australian journal of agricultural and resource … 67 (2023) 2, pp. 303-322
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Groundwater Recharge Algorithm for Forest Management Models
Schwaiger, Fabian - 2019
approach to integrate groundwater recharge into a FMM. The approach is based on knowledge transfer between two different forest … groundwater recharge in a non-mechanistic way. However, groundwater recharge is difficult to measure and strongly depends on … process-based forest growth model and substitute empiricism. Relations between forest structure and groundwater recharge were …
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The Effect of Nonbinding Agreements on Cooperation Among Forest User Groups in Nepal and Ethiopia
Dannenberg, Astrid - 2017
This paper summarizes the results from public goods experiments investigating the effect of nonbinding agreements on cooperation. Unlike previous studies, this experimental study was conducted among members of forest user groups in Ethiopia and Nepal with long histories of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971538
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Community Managed Forest Groups and Preferences for REDD Contract Attributes : A Choice Experiment Survey of Communities in Nepal
Dissanayake, Sahan - 2017
A significant portion of the world?s forests that are eligible for Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, known as REDD , payments are community managed forests. However, there is little knowledge about preferences of households living in community managed forests for REDD...
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Cooperative Behavior and Common Pool Resources : Experimental Evidence from Community Forest User Groups in Nepal
Bluffstone, Randall A. - 2017
This paper examines whether cooperative behavior by respondents measured as contributions in a one-shot public goods game correlates with reported pro-forest collective action behaviors. All the outcomes analyzed are costly in terms of time, land, or money. The study finds significant evidence...
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Decentralization and environmental conservation: gender effects from participation in joint forest management
Agrawal, Arun; Yadama, Gautam; Andrade, Raul; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"This paper analyzes how women's participation affects institutional outcomes related to the decentralized governance of community forests in Madhya Pradesh, India. The analysis is based on data from a representative sample of 641 cases of joint forest management, India's flagship program to...
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Conservation contracts and political regimes
Harstad, Bård; Mideksa, Torben - 2015
Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal conservation contract, (iii) when the donor prefers contracting with central rather than local governments, and (iv) how the donor's presence may induce institutional change. Deforestation...
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Decentralised Forest Governance, Institutions and Livelihoods in Odisha - A Study of Evolution of Policy Process and Politics
Mohapatra, Bishnu Prasad - 2014
how such issues are gradually evolved as a part of pro-poor policy process in State Forestry Sector of Odisha. Forest … corners. However, the policy process in the State Forestry Sector has not only undermined the Livelihood issues of Forest … Forestry Sector while specifically looking into the developments under different Governments. Decision making processes of the …
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How Transaction Costs Obstruct Collective Action : Evidence from California's Groundwater
Ayres, Andrew - 2017
groundwater basins using a new dataset to identify factors that influence the adoption of extraction controls. In 309 basins … severely overdrafted. Meanwhile, users in 31 basins have defined groundwater property rights, the most complete solution. We …
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How transaction costs obstruct collective action : evidence from California' s groundwater
Ayres, Andrew B.; Edwards, Eric C.; Libecap, Gary D. - 2017
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