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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...
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According to several studies, agricultural carbon sequestration could be a relatively low cost opportunity to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration and a promising means that could be institutionalised. However the potential for additional carbon quantities in agricultural soils is...
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Protected areas are increasingly used as a tool to fight against deforestation. This paper presents new evidence on the … in two steps. First, we assumed that protected areas are created to stop the negative effects of deforestation on … creation of protected areas. Our results show (i) that deforestation activities of neighboring municipalities are complements …
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Although widely studied, deforestation remains a topical and typical issue. The relationship between economic … development and deforestation is still at stake. This paper presents a meta-analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) studies … for deforestation. Using 71 studies, offering 631 estimations, we shed light on why EKC results differ. We investigate the …
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financing, namely seigniorage and deforestation revenues. First, we develop a theoretical model emphasizing a substitution … effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues. Second, a panel-data econometric analysis over the 1990-2010 period … confirms our findings. Consequently, a tighter monetary policy hastens deforestation. Third, we extend the theoretical model …
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alleviation. At the same time, deforestation-related activities, like agricultural expansion, can be seen as relying on natural … between financial development, public spendings and deforestation. Are they substitute or complement? Our econometric analysis … shows that deforestation is positively correlated to access to credit and public spendings, which gives some evidence that …
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This paper investigates whether inherited legacies such as legal origin allow of explaining deforestation in 110 … developed and developing countries. The hypothesis is that differences in deforestation between countries can be attributed to …
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Deforestation is a phenomenon that has largely been concentrated in the developing world. We construct a theoretical … model of deforestation that focuses on the factors affecting the incentives to transform forested land into agricultural … land. We show that: (i) lower discount rates and stronger institutions decrease deforestation; (ii) depreciations in the …
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This paper focuses on the impact of property rights insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon …. Deforestation is considered as a risk management strategy: property rights insecurity reduces the present value of forests and … fosters forest conversion into agricultural and pasture lands. Moreover, deforestation is the consequence of strategic …
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This paper establishes a link between deforestation and credit cycles in Latin American countries. The latter exhibit … rapid deforestation rates as well as macroeconomic instability that is often rooted in credit booms and crunches episodes …: data available on the last years show a coincidence between higher macroeconomic instability and deforestation increases …
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