Showing 1 - 10 of 19
emphasis on R&D and technology improvements. Meanwhile, more forest plantation projects are planned to ensure a sufficient and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791787
Regarding the forest sector, in a context of substantial areas of denuded and bare lands (initially around 25% of … program 327 (1993-1998) was initially planning substantial effort to rehabilitate forest degraded lands. It soon shifted to … focus on forest protection in critical zones. Finally, the program 661 (1998-2010), also known as “Five million hectares …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792141
government set up a “log export” ban in 1995. With a rather limited national environment supporting the development of an … forest companies, until the approval of their new forest concessions. Some forest companies which had old logs (harvested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792723
countries. The REDD mechanism is in charge of distilling the right incentives for fostering forest conservation with appropriate … development, population, initial forest area, agricultural export prices), (ii) estimated ex post at the end of the crediting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805921
In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels … examining the consequences of agricultural primary commodity export on population's health via physical environment degradation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643223
We propose an ethical viewpoint based on the possibility of the realization of the worst-case scenario in order to reduce future generations risks in terms of discounting. Applied to the question of conservation of a renewable resource, we show that an economy, where the social planner takes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750368
addressing here is: should uncertainty about future preferences lead to a more conservative attitude towards environment … environment than ours, but this result relies heavily on the assumption of a separability between consumption and environmental … (impatience, intertemporal flexibility, natural capacities of regeneration of the environment, relative preference for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750447
We consider an overlapping generations model with environment and an elastic labor supply. In this framework, consumers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750468
the use of environmental services and so is a direct cause of environmental degradation. The environment is valued both as … marginal discount rate allows us to avoid the depletion of the environment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750484
The Kyoto Protocol, which came in force in February 2005, allows countries to resort to «supplementary activities» consisting particularly in carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. Existing papers studying the optimal carbon sequestration recognize the importance of the temporality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750832