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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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In this paper we evaluate the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of strategies for conserving Colombias rich natural capital endowment. Specifically, we consider Government program proposals for establishing Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), implementing more...
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the income-pollution pattern observed in the real world. Low levels of income involve high values of discount rate, that … are obstacles to the adoption of a pollution abatement policy. Only when the discount rate falls, as a consequence of …-shaped income-pollution pattern, making use of an argument that has never yet been introduced in the economic debate on this issue. …
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direct water requirement patterns over time among Brazil, Colombia, and Costa Rica, applying an environmental … sanitation sector in Colombia experienced a decrease in direct water requirements, which is illustrated by a strong negative …
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only temporary, these improvements could have longer-lasting effects on policy by making chronic air pollution more salient … econometric models to estimate the effect of Bogotás lockdown on fine particulate pollution, epidemiological models to simulate … the effect of reductions in that pollution on long-term and short-term mortality, and benefit transfer methods to estimate …
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Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether 'win-win'...
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In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it...
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Deforestation in the North western part of Pakistan is a long standing problem. The Forestry Department, as formal … process has not resulted in less deforestation. From the policy perspective this has been leading to stated intentions to … statutory law. In this article we explore the mechanisms behind the deforestation and try to uncover mechanisms to reverse the …
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