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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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Livestock systems globally are changing rapidly in response to human population growth, urbanization, and growing incomes. This paper discusses the linkages between burgeoning demand for livestock products, growth in livestock production, and the impacts this may have on natural resources, and...
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applied over the course of the coming century shows that although some deforestation is optimal in the near term, in the … absence of climate change regulation, the desirability of further deforestation is eliminated by mid-century. Although adverse … prices lead to significant deforestation and higher greenhouse gas emissions than in the baseline. Imposition of a global …
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deforestation, pollution, and carbon intensities. Per capita emissions follow a $J$-curve. Specifically, poverty reduction occurs …
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under the United Nations Collaborative Program on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing …
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A significant portion of the world?s forests that are eligible for Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest …
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The pattern of global land use has important implications for the world's food and timber supplies, bioenergy, biodiversity and other eco-system services. However, the productivity of this resource is critically dependent on the world's climate, as well as investments in, and dissemination of...
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mandates and targets. The study also shows, contrary to common perceptions, that the rate of deforestation does not increase … with the rate of biofuel expansion; instead, the marginal rate of deforestation and corresponding land-use emissions …
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The tropical timber market is characterized by multiple species, multiple products, and regional patterns of trade and production. In such a market, finding a representative price is a difficult and perhaps an irrelevant task. So Varangis conducted tests to see whether prices from different...
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