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Baselines for land-use change in the tropics: application to avoided deforestation projects

Brown, Sandra; Hall, Myrna; Andrasko, Ken; Ruiz, Fernando; … - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 12 (2007) 6, pp. 1001-1026

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REDD+ and international leakage via food and timber markets: a CGE analysis

Kuik, Onno - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 19 (2014) 6, pp. 641-655

context of actions to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). First a simple analytical model of …

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Towards global voluntary standards: Questioning the effectiveness in attaining conservation goals

Ruysschaert, Denis; Salles, Denis - In: Ecological Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 438-446

Global voluntary agreements, such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), have emerged as alternatives to apparent State failure to enforce law. This research questions how effective RSPO is in attaining its claimed conservation goals especially regarding orangutans, as this is central...

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Benefits and costs of deforestation by smallholders: Implications for forest conservation and climate policy

Cacho, Oscar J.; Milne, Sarah; Gonzalez, Ricardo; … - In: Ecological Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 321-332

Deforestation is a leading cause of biodiversity loss and an important source of global carbon emissions. This means … that there are important synergies between climate policy and conservation policy. The highest rates of deforestation occur … deforestation such as REDD+. Deforestation is often accompanied by fires that release large amounts of carbon dioxide. These …

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Migrants, land markets and carbon emissions in Jambi, Indonesia: Land tenure change and the prospect of emission reduction

Galudra, Gamma; Noordwijk, Meine; Agung, Putra; … - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 19 (2014) 6, pp. 715-731

national Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation+ (REDD+) programs will need to recognize underlying land …

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Conservation through intensification? The effects of plantations on natural forests

Heilmayr, Robert - In: Ecological Economics 105 (2014) C, pp. 204-210

The rapid growth in plantation forestry over the past two decades attests to the sector's importance in meeting rising global demand for timber, fuel and fiber. However, plantation forests differ dramatically from natural forests in the types of ecosystem services they can provide. As a result,...

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Strict versus mixed-use protected areas: Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve

Blackman, Allen - In: Ecological Economics 112 (2015) C, pp. 14-24

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. Important open questions concern the link between the …, mixed-use protection in this park has been more effective in stemming deforestation than strict protection because of the …

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Harnessing the climate commons: an agent-based modelling approach to making reducing emission from deforestation and degradation (REDD)+work

Purnomo, Herry; Suyamto, Desi; Irawati, Rika - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 18 (2013) 4, pp. 471-489

Parties (COP) on climate change increased political commitment to reduce emission from deforestation and degradation and to …

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Economic dynamics and forest clearing: A spatial econometric analysis for Indonesia

Wheeler, David; Hammer, Dan; Kraft, Robin; Dasgupta, Susmita - In: Ecological Economics 85 (2013) C, pp. 85-96

This paper uses a large panel database to investigate the determinants of forest clearing in Indonesian kabupatens since 2005. Our study incorporates short-run changes in prices and demands for palm oil and wood products, as well as the exchange rate, the real interest rate, land-use zoning,...

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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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