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Voluntary opt-in programs to reduce emissions in unregulated sectors or countries have spurred considerable discussion. Since any regulator will make errors in predicting baselines and participants will self-select into the program, adverse selection will reduce efficiency and possibly...
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contracts. The trials encourage landholders to competitively tender for funds to provide conservation actions on private land …
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the proposed REDD scheme (Reducing Emissions through Deforestation and Land Degradation), to be administered through the … relative to business-as-usual conditions. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of a subsidy to the use of land in forestry as … explicit treatment of land use, disaggregated by industry and by region. The results of the analysis indicate that the subsidy …
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landscape with diverse land uses and vegetation types. Optimal reconstruction design is affected by opportunity costs due to the …
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vegetation that remains on private land is highly fragmented and continues to be degraded and modified due to various land use … explain variations in the prices of the differentiated goods under consideration. Land sales records for the past ten years …
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The coastal village of Kampong Kuantan in the state of Selangor, Malaysia is noted for its fireflies (pteropyx tener). The fireflies which flashes every non-rainy night is one of the world's most spectacular insect shows. The local operators formulated strict but informal rules to ensure the...
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The chromosol soils of the Duri district range from highly to moderately degraded. The poorer condition results in high overland flow, reduced plant available water, and can lead to greater recharging of lower lying vertosol soils, which have a greater salt store and as a consequence of recharge...
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Expanding urban areas such as Queensland’s Sunshine coast face growing land use conflicts among urban, agricultural and … estimate community values for peri-urban land in production and conservation. We examine the implications of the value … estimates in the optimal allocation of land for sugarcane on the basis of total economic value from all land uses including the …
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