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brought about by migration and remittances on Nepal's Himalayan forests. The authors assemble a unique village-panel dataset …
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A significant portion of the world?s forests that are eligible for Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest … communities. This paper uses a choice experiment survey of rural communities in Nepal to understand respondents? preferences …
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. Existing observations indicate that the temperature is rising at a higher rate in Nepal and Chinese regions of the Himalayas …This paper reviews the literature on the potential biophysical and economic impacts of climate change in the Himalayas … compared with rest of the Himalayas. A declining trend of monsoon in the western Indian Himalayas and an increasing trend in …
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This paper develops and applies a spatial econometric model that links road upgrading to forest clearing and biodiversity loss in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The paper uses 500-meter cells to estimate the relationship between the rate of forest clearing in a cell and its distance to...
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, continues degrading by rapid deforestation, which is expected to continue despite policies to prevent it. Current international …, lending support to international efforts to reduce deforestation in the Amazon …
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deforestation, pollution, and carbon intensities. Per capita emissions follow a $J$-curve. Specifically, poverty reduction occurs …
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deforestation (by 29 percent compared to controls), with effects being larger for those that have been in the program the longest … of the United Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. The data also show that …
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A spatial econometric model is used to link road upgrading to forest clearing and biodiversity loss in the moist tropical forests of Bolivia, Cameroon, and Myanmar. Using 250-meter cells, the model estimates the relationship between the rate of forest clearing in a cell and its distance to the...
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A rainforest can be modeled as a dynamic asset subject to various risks, including risk of fire. Any small part of the forest can be in one of two states: either untouched by forest fire, or already damaged by fire, in which case there is both a local forest loss and increased dryness over a...
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under the United Nations Collaborative Program on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing …
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