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REDD+ as performance-based aid: General lessons and bilateral agreements of Norway

Angelsen, Arild - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets. REDD+ has since become multi-objective;

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Reducing deforestation and forest degradation: leakage or synergy?

Angelsen, Arild; Delacote, Philippe - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

Agricultural expansion is the main deforestation driver, while forest degradation is due to non-sustainable poaching … and harvesting of forest products. Policies to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) thus … discussed. Does reduced deforestation indire ctly decrease or enhance forest degradation? How does better control on illegal har …

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Reducing deforestation and forest degradation: leakage or synergy?

Angelsen, Arild; Delacote, Philippe - Chaire d'Économie du Climat, Université … - 2013

Agricultural expansion is the main deforestation driver, while forest degradation is due to non-sustainable poaching … and harvesting of forest products. Policies to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) thus … discussed. Does reduced deforestation indirectly decrease or enhance forest degradation? How does better control on illegal …

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Forest Clearing in Rural Livelihoods: Household-Level Global-Comparative Evidence

Babigumira, Ronnie; Angelsen, Arild; Buis, Maarten; … - In: World Development 64 (2014) S1, pp. 67-67

This paper examines the factors that influence rural household decisions to clear forestland. We use a large dataset comprising 7172 households from 24 developing countries. Twenty-seven percent of sampled households had converted forest to agriculture during the previous 12months, clearing on...

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