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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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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972356
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Confronting the Food-Energy-Environment Trilemma : Global Land Use in the Long Run
Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2017
Economic, agronomic, and biophysical drivers affect global land use, so all three influences need to be considered in evaluating economically optimal allocations of the world's land resources. A dynamic, forward-looking optimization framework applied over the course of the coming century shows...
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An Economic Model of Brazil's Ethanol-Sugar Markets and Impacts of Fuel Policies
de Gorter, Harry - 2017
The lack of growth in the Brazilian sugarcane-ethanol complex since the 2008 financial crisis has been blamed on policies: lower mandate, holding gasoline prices below world levels, high fuel taxes, and inadequate fuel tax exemptions for ethanol. This paper develops an empirical model of the...
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Macroeconomic and Distributional Impacts of Jatropha-Based Biodiesel in Mali
Boccanfuso, Dorothée - 2017
biodiesel using jatropha curcas, a non-edible shrub widely available throughout the country by farmers for generations as a … imports, with domestic biodiesel produced from a feedstock that does not have any commercial value otherwise and thus has zero … large-scale jatropha production on different types of lands, and conversion of jatropha oil to biodiesel for domestic …
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Are Biofuels Economically Competitive with Their Petroleum Counterparts?Production Cost Analysis for Zambia
Sinkala, Thomson - 2017
range from US$0.360 a liter to US$0.680 a liter while the costs for biodiesel production range from US$0.612 a liter to US$0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974231
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Should Zambia Produce Biodiesel from Soybeans? Some Insights from an Empirical Analysis
de Gorter, Harry - 2017
empirical model this study analyzes the economics of meeting the biodiesel mandate through soybean feedstock. The study finds … that meeting the biodiesel mandate with biodiesel from soybeans would reduce social welfare because the country's soybean … supply along with its capacity to convert soybean to biodiesel, as well as oil yield, soybean based biodiesel is likely to be …
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