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approach is not working. There is no easy solution. Reducing deforestation in Indonesia is a difficult task because the drivers … characterized Australia’s engagement in Indonesia’s forestry sector in recent years should be re-oriented towards a more ambitious … dried peatland, and planting 100 million trees in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Since then, the ambitions of KFCP have been …
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paper aims to highlight forest land use dynamics in Indonesia, and particularly the difficulties of resolving the conflicts … deforestation in Indonesia are complex, and cover various aspects of market failure, inappropriate policy implementation in relation …Alternative land use remains a controversial issue in Indonesia, particularly with regard to regions outside Java. This …
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countries. This paper compares two regulatory systems applied to parallel food and forestry problems: the Forest Stewardship … continue to proliferate in Indonesia. These regulatory processes provide leverage within bounded spaces, yet they are limited …
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This paper explores the failure of countries to coordinate climate policies as an equilibrium outcome of a game where countries optimize in the face of both unprecedented economic and environmental uncertainty. Because issues associated with climate change are historically unprecedented and thus...
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The Doha climate talks in December 2012, wrapped up lines of negotiation that were begun years before in Bali. Negotiators resolved contentious questions about the future of the Kyoto Protocol and finally put the constraints of the Bali agenda behind them. Now they need turn to developing by...
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We review the historical literature on the economics of climate change with a focus on the evolution of the literature from some of the early classic papers to the latest contributions. We divide the paper into three main sections: trends in greenhouse gas emissions, mitigation, and adaptation.
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The inundation of an entire nation due to anthropogenic climate change has never been seen. And the low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati is likely to be among the first victims of such a disaster. As such, this article examines a number of strategies for the relocation of Kiribati, and finds...
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The inundation of an entire nation due to anthropogenic climate change has never been seen. And the low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati is likely to be among the first victims of such a disaster. As such, this article examines a number of strategies for the relocation of Kiribati, and finds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742034
China has embarked on an ambitious and unprecedented programme of energy reform and climate change mitigation. Yet the motivations for this important shift remain unclear. This paper surveys key central government documents and articles by China's leading energy academics to investigate the...
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Economists were able to formulate and recommend policy approaches for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (mitigation) by drawing on an existing body of economic theory related to externalities. However, no comparably straightforward approach has yet emerged in the adaptation literature,...
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