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Policies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in Tropical Forests: An Examination of the Issues Facing the Incorporation of REDD into Market-Based Climate...

Myers, Erin C. - 2007

Deforestation and forest degradation account for 20 percent of annual total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The vast majority of these forestry emissions come from deforestation in developing countries. Currently, there is significant dialogue at the international level about how to integrate...

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The Social Contingency of Wants Implications for Growth and the Environment

Brekke, Kjell Arne; Howarth, Richard B. - 1998

Economic models typically assume that individual wants are determined by forces exogenous to the economic system. Social psychology and consumer research, in contrast, support the view that the perceived benefits of consumption are strongly affected by endogenously determined social norms. This...

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On Natural Resource Rent and the Wealth of a Nation A Study Based on National Accounts in Norway 1930-95

Lindholt, Lars - 2000

National wealth can be divided into real capital, financial capital, human capital and natural resource wealth. We use the National Accounts measures to illustrate the development of the wealth from 1930 to 1995, with special focus on the contribution from the natural resources. Norway is often...

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Carbon Credits for Avoided Deforestation

Sedjo, Roger A.; Sohngen, Brent - 2007

Several important issues need to be addressed to make avoided deforestation (AD) a feasible option for climate change policy. Traditional questions associated with land-based sequestration options have largely been discussed in terms of project-based approaches to carbon sequestration. For...

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Some Issues at the Forefront of Public Policy for Environmental Risk

Macauley, Molly - 2006

The lay of the policy land for addressing and managing environmental risk includes the hillock of the precautionary principle, the mountain of the practice and ethics of monetary valuation, and the tectonic plates of real-world innovations in markets and trading exchanges for nonmarketed...

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A Herculean Task? Economics, Politics, and Realigning Government in the Case of U.S. Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellites

Macauley, Molly - 2004

In 1994 one of the most radical institutional restructurings in the U.S. government’s provision of critical weather information took place after eight unsuccessful attempts. A presidential decision directive merged weather data collection by satellites operated by the Department of Defense for...

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Technological Change and the Environment

Stavins, Robert; Jaffe, Adam; Newell, Richard - 2000

Environmental policy discussions increasingly focus on issues related to technological change. This is partly because the environmental consequences of social activity are frequently affected by the rate and direction of technological change, and partly because environmental policy interventions...

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The Roles of the Environment and Natural Resources in Economic Growth Analysis

Toman, Michael - 2003

The primary aim of this paper is pedagogical. We first present and discuss a “wiring diagram” framework in order to elucidate the general links between economic growth and "natural capital." After developing the general framework, we develop parallel frameworks applicable to several specific...

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Migration and deforestation in Indonesia

Darmawan, Rivayani; Klasen, Stephan; Nuryartono, Nunung - 2015

small amount focuses on the relationship between migration and deforestation. Migration may contribute to the forest cover … investigates the relationship between recent in-migration and deforestation in Indonesia. By combining available population census … data with the satellite image data MODIS, we find a significant positive relationship between migration and deforestation …

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Endogenous Institutional Change and Economic Development: A Micro-Level Analysis of Transmission Channels

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2009

-rural migration flows to geographically well-endowed regions which in turn give rise to migration-induced land scarcity. Land scarcity …

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