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Does Collective Action Sequester Carbon? The Case of the Nepal Community Forestry Program

Bluffstone, Randall Ames - 2017

This paper estimate the effects of collective action in Nepal?s community forests on four ecological measures of forest quality. Forest user group collective action is identified through membership in the Nepal Community Forestry Programme, pending membership in the program, and existence of a...

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Community Managed Forest Groups and Preferences for REDD Contract Attributes : A Choice Experiment Survey of Communities in Nepal

Dissanayake, Sahan - 2017

A significant portion of the world?s forests that are eligible for Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, known as REDD , payments are community managed forests. However, there is little knowledge about preferences of households living in community managed forests for REDD...

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Cooperative Behavior and Common Pool Resources : Experimental Evidence from Community Forest User Groups in Nepal

Bluffstone, Randall Ames - 2017

This paper examines whether cooperative behavior by respondents measured as contributions in a one-shot public goods game correlates with reported pro-forest collective action behaviors. All the outcomes analyzed are costly in terms of time, land, or money. The study finds significant evidence...

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The Improved Biomass Stove Saves Wood, But How Often Do People Use it? Evidence from a Randomized Treatment Trial in Ethiopia

Beyene, Abebe - 2017

This paper uses a randomized experimental design and real-time electronic stove use monitors to evaluate the frequency with which villagers use improved biomass-burning Mirt injera cookstoves in rural Ethiopia. Understanding whether, how much, and why improved cookstoves are used is important,...

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Preferences for REDD+ Contract Attributes in Low-Income Countries : A Choice Experiment in Ethiopia

Dissanayake, Sahan - 2017

This paper informs the national and international policy discussions related to the adoption of the United Nations Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Programme. Effective program instruments must carefully consider incentives, opportunity costs, and community...

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Incentive Contracts for Environmental Services and Their Potential in REDD

Fortmann, Lea - 2017

Implementation arrangements for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation can be seen as contracts that could address some of the inherent problems with forest carbon credits that often lead to high transaction costs -- measuring, monitoring, and verification....

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Implementation of REDD+ Mechanisms in Tanzania

Salas, Paula Cordero - 2017

This paper explains the major issues and lessons derived from the national forest management program and REDD+ initiatives in Tanzania. It finds that addressing the most important drivers of forest degradation and deforestation, in particular the country energy needs and landownership, is...

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Cooperation and Reciprocity in Carbon Sequestration Contracts

Salas, Paula Cordero - 2017

This paper studies the role of cooperation and reciprocity on the structure of self-enforcing carbon sequestration contracts. The optimal contract is derived as a result of the optimizing actions of purely self-interested agents, and agents that act according to social or egoistic preferences....

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The Economic Viability of Jatropha Biodiesel in Nepal

Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2017

of imported diesel is substituted with domestically produced jatropha-based biodiesel. This study finds that the … economics of jatropha-based biodiesel depend on several factors, such as diesel price, yield of jatropha seeds per hectare, and … biodiesel is unlikely to be economically competitive in Nepal unless seed yields per hectare are implausibly large and high …

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What is the Social Value of Second-Generation Biofuels?

Hertel, Thomas W. - 2017

What is second-generation biofuel technology worth to global society? A dynamic, computable partial equilibrium model (called FABLE) is used to assess changes in global land use for crops, livestock, biofuels, forestry, and environmental services, as well as greenhouse gas emissions, with and...

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