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Quantification of potential ecological impacts of road transport

Friedrich, Jan - 2014

Throughout the world land use and fragmentation are among the major causes of the de-struction of habitats and the …

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Is it possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in pastoral ecosystems of the tropics?

Reid, Robin; Thornton, Philip; McCrabb, Graeme; Kruska, … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 6 (2004) 1, pp. 91-109

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Population, Land Use and Deforestation in the Pan Amazon Basin: a Comparison of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú and Venezuela

Perz, Stephen; Aramburú, Carlos; Bremner, Jason - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 7 (2005) 1, pp. 23-49

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Opportunity cost of environmental preservation: the case of the Brazilian Legal Amazon

Chagas, André Luis Squarize; Andrade, Luiza Cardoso de - Departamento de Economia, Faculdade de Economia, … - 2014

deforestation processes. A recurrent discussion involves what to do to reduce the deforestation process. A compensation to no-deforestation …

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Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities

Miranda, Juan Jose; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - 2014

Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether “win-win”...

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Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities: Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon

Miranda, Juan Jose; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - 2014

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The Economics of Endangered Species

Innes, Robert; Frisvold, George - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 485-512

Because habitat conversion is the greatest threat to species, this article focuses on economic incentives for private land users to protect habitat. Habitat protection policies that fail to account for private incentives often have unintended negative consequences. Private incentives for habitat...

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Cattle Accumulation and Land Use Intensification by Households in the Brazilian Amazon

Caviglia-Harris, Jill L. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 34 (2005) 2

In developing countries across the globe the impact of livestock on deforestation levels has been profound. This paper … inquiries raised in the literature are addressed, including the determinants of the co-evolution of deforestation and cattle …

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The Economics of Forest Land Use in Temperate and Tropical Areas

Park, Peter; Barbier, Edward; Burgess, Joanne - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 11 (1998) 3, pp. 473-487

This paper presents economic rules for harvest timing when timber and nontimber goods, services, and ecological functions are produced from forest stands. Forests include stands that are heterogeneous in age, land quality, and distance to market. Rules for allocating land between forest and...

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Ethanol production, food and forests

Andrade de Sa, Saraly; Palmer, Charles; Engel, Stefanie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food … of direct land competition between rival uses increases deforestation and decreases food production. Second, an indirect … displacement of food production across regions, provoked by a shift in the price of food, increases deforestation and reduces the …

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