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People have a marginal role in managing forests located in the vicinity of their villages inNorthern India. This situation is scrutinised in this paper by studying strategic play of forestusers. Thereto, a 1 versus n−1 game of people's participation in forest management is estimatedfor three...
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We study the potential of tropical multi-age multi-species forests for sequestering carbon in response to financial incentives from REDD+. The use of reduced impact logging techniques (RIL) allows a forest owner to apply for carbon credits whereas the use of conventional logging techniques (CL)...
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First-best optimal forest sector carbon policy is examined. Using a comprehensive forest sector model with a detailed carbon cycle section we show that the renewability and carbon neutrality arguments do not warrant emission free treatment of forest bioenergy. However, under the biomass stock...
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the market for woody biomass by combining the integrated assessment model WITCH with the global dynamic forestry model GTM … contributing 20-27% of all mitigation for 2020-2100. -- Bio-energy ; Carbon Sequestration ; Forestry ; Integrated Assessment Model …
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We study forestry in the Sámi people homeland region to understand an ongoing conflict between conventional forest … husbandry, and a flexible optimization between rotation forestry (cf. clearcuts) and forestry that maintains continuous forest … cover. We show that the profitability of conventional forestry is based on utilizing existing forest stands, an outcome that …
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A tragedy of the commons appears when the users of a common resource have incentives to exploit it more than the … socially efficient level. We analyze the situation when the tragedy of the commons is embedded in a network of users and …
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