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Deforestation in the North western part of Pakistan is a long standing problem. The Forestry Department, as formal … further reform the Forestry Department, the question is whether organizational reform is the answer. We think there are more … limiting bottlenecks to sustainable forest management in Pakistan. De facto property rights are not as simple as denoted by …
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forestry sector within climate mitigation. Improvements on database and modelling frameworks allow accounting for land … heterogeneity across and within regions and for land transfers between agriculture, grazing, and forestry. The forestry sector has … forestry practices. Results show that including forest carbon in the compliance strategy decreases European policy costs and …
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traditionally used in forestry economics reflect. This essay analyses some challenges of accounting for such complexity. When forest …
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In this paper we study the optimal forest conservation policy by a hyperbolically discounting society. Society comprises a series of non-overlapping imperfectly altruistic generations each represented by its own government. Under uncertainty about future pay-offs we determine, as solution of an...
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Deforestation is a major source of CO2 emissions, accounting for around 17% of total annual anthropogenic carbon release. While the cost estimates of reducing deforestation rates vary considerably depending on model assumptions, it is widely accepted that emissions reductions from avoided...
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Illegal logging is widely recognized as a major economic problem and one of the causes of environmental degradation. Increasing awareness of its negative effects has fostered a wide range of proposals to combat it by major international conservation groups and political organizations. Following...
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This paper analyzes the role of afforestation-reforestation and timber management activities, and their major and secondary economic effects in stabilizing climate during the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. In particular, with a Computable General Equilibrium framework, the ICES...
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The carbon mitigation literature has separately considered using forests to store carbon and as a source of bioenergy. In this paper, we look at both options to reach a 2°C mitigation target. This paper combines the global forest model, GTM, with the IAM WITCH model to study the optimal use of...
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This paper investigates the potential contribution of forestry management in meeting a CO2 stabilization policy of 550 … models. An energy-economy-climate model for the study of climate policies is linked with a detailed forestry model through an … iterative procedure to provide the optimal abatement strategy. Results show that forestry is a determinant abatement option and …
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the market for woody biomass by combining the integrated assessment model WITCH with the global dynamic forestry model GTM …
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