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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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Does forest conversion promote growth and alleviate poverty ?

Mamat, Mohd Parit; Ahmad, Ismariah; Fui, Lim Hin; … - In: EAS Strategic Options 2013 (2013) 19, pp. 14-15

Since the formation of Malaysia in 1963, there was an obvious reduction in the forested area of Peninsular Malaysia. Statistical data from the Forestry Department Peninsular Malaysia showed that the forested area in 1970 decreased sharply from 8,012,600 ha to 6,361,400 ha in 1980 and finally...

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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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