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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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The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world … deforestation. Using generalized linear mixed models and generalised estimating equations, we were able to calculate expected …
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This study explores the effect of trade openness on deforestation. Previous studies do not find a clear effect of trade … openness on deforestation. We use updated data on the annual rate of deforestation for 142 countries from 1990 to 2003, treat … an increase in trade openness increases deforestation for non-OECD countries while slowing down deforestation for OECD …
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Deforestation, it may be necessary for Mexico to make complementary investments in Land improvements, especially for existing …
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Deforestation remains one of the most intractable environmental problems of today. Pakistan also faces serious problem … analyse the state’s role in it. Putting the entire burden of deforestation on ‘other factors’ shifts attention away from more … focus attention on this important factor behind deforestation - the role of state in forest degradation in Pakistan. …
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Individual countries considering participating in a Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD …) mechanism need information on what it would cost them to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and how to … the country would benefit from such sales; (iii) how they might be able to actually reduce deforestation so as to generate …
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Trade liberalization and worldwide economic integration have brought not only an increase in wealth but also in transnational threats. Environmental devastation caused by commercial activities of multinational corporations (MNCs) is one of such threats. While almost all countries have...
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they can achieve. The present paper, elucidates the issue of deforestation and degradation in reserved forests of Assam in …
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last decades, the deforestation was linked mainly to economic factors than to policies conducted by the government. The …
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The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between land inequality and deforestation in the Brazilian … statistical evidence to support the existence of a direct relationship between land inequality and deforestation. Nevertheless …, when one takes into account the effects of land inequality on deforestation through its interaction with credit and land …
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