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Can Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of REDD+ Improve Forest Governance?

Slunge, Daniel; Ekbom, Anders; Loayza, F.; Guthiga, P.; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

assessment (SESA) for incorporating environmental and social considerations in the preparation of REDD+ initiatives. This paper … discusses the potential contribution of SESA to REDD+ initiatives drawing on experiences from earlier attempts to large scale … social impacts related to REDD+. More specifically, SESA can enhance policy making and governance through raising attention …

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Household Tree Planting in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia: Tree Species, Purposes, and Determinants

Gebreegziabher, Zenebe; Mekonnen, Alemu; Kassie, Menale; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Trees have multiple purposes in rural Ethiopia, providing significant economic and ecological benefits. Planting trees supplies rural households with wood products for their own consumption, as well for sale, and decreases soil degradation. In this paper, we used cross-sectional household-level...

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The Links between Poverty and the Environment in Malawi

Mkwara, Bentry; Marsh, Dan - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2009

Deforestation arising from conversion of forest areas into agriculture is a serious problem in Malawi. Cultivation of subsistence and cash crops is often cited as a major cause of this problem. This paper applies the von Thunen model to firstly, discuss competition for agricultural land and...

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Forestland Reform in China: What do the Farmers Want? A Choice Experiment on Farmers’ Property Rights Preferences

Qin, Pin; Carlsson, Fredrik; Xu, Jintao - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Various decentralization experiments are currently underway in the Chinese forestry sector. However, a key question often ignored by researchers and policy makers is what farmers really want from reform. This paper addresses this question using a survey-based choice experiment. We investigated...

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Contingent valuation of community plantations in Ethiopia: a look into value elicitation formats and intra-household preference variations

Carlsson, Fredrik; Köhlin, Gunnar; Mekonnen, Alemu - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

This paper is an application of the contingent valuation method on community plantations in the highlands of Ethiopia. A discrete-continuous elicitation format was applied. It was found that there is a problem in applying a closed ended elicitation format in this context with a community...

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Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services Provision: Tale of Confused Objectives, Multiple Market Failures and Policy Challenges

Coria, Jessica; Robinson, Elizabeth; Smith, Henrik G.; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

Most research and funding in conservation has been oriented toward biodiversity per se. Until recently there has been little tangible effort in linking conservation to ecosystem service provision. Nevertheless, this trend seems to be changing due in part to the relative success of payment...

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Household fuel choice in urban China: A random effect generalized probit analysis

Zhang, Xiao-Bing; Hassen, Sied - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

Using seven rounds of household survey data that span more than a decade, this paper analyzes the determinants of household fuel choice in urban China. Unlike the existing studies, we use an empirical strategy that takes into account the potential heterogeneous effects of socio-economic factors...

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Strategic Carbon Taxation and Energy Pricing: The Role of Innovation

Zhang, Xiao-Bing - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

This paper investigates the strategic interactions between carbon taxation by a resource-consumers’ coalition and (wellhead) energy pricing by a producers’ cartel under possible innovation in a cheap carbon-free technology through a dynamic game. The arrival time of innovation is uncertain,...

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Willingness-to-Pay for Prescribed Fire in the Colorado (USA) Wildland Urban Interface

Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John; Seidl, Andrew - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2006

During the summer of 2001, survey data were collected from Colorado residents living near public lands (i.e., the wildland urban interface). Data were collected by telephone after mailing respondents a survey. These data include detailed information of respondents’ views towards wildfire...

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Divergence in Stakeholders’ Preferences: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on Forest Landscapes Preferences in Sweden

Nordén, Anna; Coria, Jessica; Jönsson, Anna Maria; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2015

A great deal of biodiversity can be found in private forests, and protecting it requires taking into consideration the preferences of key stakeholders. In this study, we examine and compare the valuation of forest attributes across the general public, private non-industrial forest owners and...

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