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Air pollution and climate change increased the importance of renewable energy resources like solar energy in the last decades. Rack-mounted PhotoVoltaics (PV) and Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics (BIPV) are the most common photovoltaic systems which convert incident solar radiation on façade...
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more preserved during the last decades with a much lower deforestation rate. At the same time, the region remains one of … the least developed in the world. We use the partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM for the global agricultural, forestry and … multiply deforestation by three. In contrast, a global agreement on reduction of total emissions from deforestation could …
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currently announced by more than 40 countries around the world are implemented by 2020 using crop feedstocks and if both forests …
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Sudan is threatened by a serious deforestation problem. Total forested area decreased by about 20 percent over the last … of deforestation, the government's Mechanized Farming Corporation requires each farmer to leave at least ten percent of …
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Trade interventions are increasingly advocated as a means for controlling timber-related tropical deforestation. This … paper analyzes the impact on deforestation of such policy instruments in a dynamic framework. The forest is modelled as a … long-run deforestation are analyzed. The results of this analysis suggest that trade interventions that seek to affect the …
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Deforestation in Costa Rica has proceeded at a rapid pace. Of the remaining 2,700 km<Superscript>2</Superscript> of … indicates that, contrary to our expectations, most of the deforestation at present is not being done by squatters, but driven by … outside the parks, a key question is whether public interests connected with external costs of deforestation warrant public …
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elasticity of demand. The basic modelis applied to a case study of the impacts ofmangrove deforestation on the artisanal … the1983–1993 period for the five coastal zones ofSouthern Thailand, the welfare impacts ofmangrove deforestation are … deforestation inThailand of 30 km<Superscript>2</Superscript> annually ranged from$12,000 to $408,000 depending on theelasticity of …
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This paper presents economic rules for harvest timing when timber and nontimber goods, services, and ecological functions are produced from forest stands. Forests include stands that are heterogeneous in age, land quality, and distance to market. Rules for allocating land between forest and...
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