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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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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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income. Nevertheless, Indonesia and Malaysia can potentially gain from the implementation of a carbon tax as it counteracts …
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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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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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The relative cost of carbon emissions reductions across regions depends on whether we measure cost by marginal or total cost, private or economy-wide cost, and using market or purchasing power parity exchange rates. If all countries are on the same marginal carbon abatement cost curve then lower...
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This report proposes an extension to existing models of non-expected utility (NEU) in the stated preference (SP) literature. The extension incorporates the impact of multiple sources of ambiguity in individual decision making behaviour. Empirical testing of the proposed decision model was...
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