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Making Grasslands Sustainable in Mongolia: Adapting to Climate and Environmental Change

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

Climate change threatens grassland ecosystems and herders’ livelihoods in Mongolia. Herders depend on pasture and water resources for their livestock, and are thus among the most vulnerable groups to climate change impacts. However, although climate change impacts on grassland ecosystems are...

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Country Safeguard Systems Regional Workshop Proceedings Towards Common Approaches and Better Results

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012

Australian Agency for International Development, Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the World Bank confirmed their …

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Monitoring needs to transform Amazonian forest maintenance into a global warming-mitigation option

Fearnside, Philip - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 2 (1997) 2, pp. 285-302

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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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Ethanol production, food and forests

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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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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Economic Assessment of Mitigation Options for Enhancing and Maintaining Carbon Sink Capacity in Indonesia

Boer, Rizaldi - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 6 (2001) 3, pp. 257-290

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The Potential of Brazil's Forest Sector for Mitigating Global Warming under the Kyoto Protocol

Fearnside, Philip - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 6 (2001) 3, pp. 355-372

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Land Use, Land-Use Change, Forestry, and Agricultural Activities in the Clean Development Mechanism: Estimates of Greenhouse Gas Offset Potential

Bloomfield, Janine; Pearson, Holly - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 5 (2000) 1, pp. 9-24

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