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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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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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from an independent European commitment, by 0.2% -- Climate Change ; General Equilibrium Modelling ; Forestry …
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The forest conservation policy instrument REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is designed to compensate governments of tropical countries for their efforts to conserve forests. Food insecure countries that are specialized in agriculture and have weak...
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This paper reports an original economic valuation of the impact of climate change on the provision of forest regulating services in Europe. To the authors’ knowledge the current paper represents the first systematic attempt to estimate human well-being losses with respect to changes in...
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. -- Forestry ; Illegal Logging ; International Trade ; Economy and Environment ; Computable General Equilibrium Models …
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