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Andrade de Sa, Saraly; Palmer, Charles; Engel, Stefanie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food … of direct land competition between rival uses increases deforestation and decreases food production. Second, an indirect … displacement of food production across regions, provoked by a shift in the price of food, increases deforestation and reduces the …

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Dynamics of indirect land-use change: empirical evidence from Brazil

Palmer, Charles; Di Falco, Salvatore - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land for this use …. Unlike direct land conversion, indirect land-use changes affecting deforestation are not immediately observable. They require …

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Cost-effective payments for reducing emissions from deforestation under uncertainty

Engel, Stefanie; Palmer, Charles; Taschini, Luca; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

for payments for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). Given that REDD will not represent a …

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Uncertain emission reductions from forest conservation: REDD in the Bale mountains, Ethiopia

Watson, Charlene; Mourato, Susana; Milner-Gulland, E. J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The environmental integrity of a mechanism rewarding Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD …

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Land markets and land market regulation : progress towards understanding

Cheshire, P. C.; Sheppard, Stephen Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

We introduce the papers in this volume and put them into the context of the literature on land use regulation. We then synthesise and draw some conclusions from existing research on land use regulation and interpret the evidence currently available. In the light of this review we then identify...

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Decomposing the growth in residential land in the United States

Overman, Henry G.; Puga, Diego; Turner, Matthew A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper decomposes the growth in land occupied by residences in the United States to give the relative contributions of changing demographics versus increases in the land area used by individual households. Between 1976 and 1992 the amount of residential land in the United States grew 47.5%...

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Decomposing the growth in residential land in the United States

Overman, Henry G.; Puga, Diego; Turner, Matthew A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper decomposes the growth in land occupied by residences in the United States to give the relative contributions of changing demographics versus changes in residential land per household. Between 1976 and 1992 the amount of residential land in the United States grew 47.7% while population...

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A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable amazon network

Gardner, Toby A.; Ferreira, J.; Barlow, J.; Lees, A. C.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Science has a critical role to play in guiding more sustainable development trajectories. Here, we present the Sustainable Amazon Network (Rede Amazônia Sustentável, RAS): a multidisciplinary research initiative involving more than 30 partner organizations working to assess both social and...

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Chicken or egg? the PVAR econometrics of transportation

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Moeller, Kristoffer; Wendland, Nicolai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

To analyze the mutually dependent relationship between local economic performance and the demand for and supply of transport services, we employ the structural panel VAR method that is popular in the macroeconomic literature, but which has not previously been applied to the modeling of...

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