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

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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 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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REDD for Malaysia?

Jean-Marc, Roda; Puasa, Ahmad Fauzi; Rahman, Rohana Abd; … - In: EAS Strategic Options 2010 (2010) 04, pp. 1-2

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is a mechanism which aims to mitigate the negative … community in order to prevent deforestation or degradation. …

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