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Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities
Miranda, Juan Jose; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - 2014
Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether “win-win”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959428
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Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities: Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon
Miranda, Juan Jose; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - 2014
Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether “win-win”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959432
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Pecuária e desmatamento: uma análise das principais causas diretas do desmatamento na Amazônia [Ranching and deforestation: an analysis of the main direct causes of deforestation i...
Rivero, Sérgio; Almeida, Oriana; Ávila, Saulo; … - In: Nova Economia 19 (2009) 1, pp. 41-66
Cattle Ranching is the main causes of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon region. This paper analyses the proximate … causes of deforestation using linear regressions with panel data. The model evaluates the contribution of the main land uses … for deforestation from 2000 to 2006. Deforestation data from INPE-PRODES, number of heads of cattle, and area of temporary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552439
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Causas do desmatamento da Amazônia: uma aplicação do teste de causalidade de Granger acerca das principais fontes de desmatamento nos municípios da Amazônia Legal brasileira [Cause...
Diniz, Marcelo Bentes; Junior, José Nilo de Oliveira; … - In: Nova Economia 19 (2009) 1, pp. 121-151
Many are the factors indicated by the pertinent literature concerning the causes of deforestation in Brazilian Legal … variables suggested as important that explain the deforestation of the Legal Amazon, in the period from 1997 to 2006. The … empirical evidence that there is a bidirectional causality between deforestation and the areas of permanent and temporary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552445
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O impacto dos gastos do governo federal no desmatamento no Estado do Pará [The impact of federal government expenses on deforestation in the state of Pará]
Prates, Rodolfo Coelho; Serra, Maurício - In: Nova Economia 19 (2009) 1, pp. 95-116
The deforestation of the Amazon forest is one of the most important environmental problems faced by the Brazilian … government. The economic literature points to numerous factors responsible for deforestation, and many of these are, directly or … can influence, or mitigate, Amazonian deforestation. The state of Pará is used as a case study, as it presents the highest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552448
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012290
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Strict versus Mixed Use Protected Areas: Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve
Blackman, Allen
Although protected areas, or “parks”, are among the leading policy tools used to stem tropical deforestation, rigorous … relatively little deforestation—have only recently begun to appear. An important open question is how the stringency of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010770441
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755833
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755968