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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”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959428
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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
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”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959432
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Strict versus mixed-use protected areas: Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve
Blackman, Allen - In: Ecological Economics 112 (2015) C, pp. 14-24
Although protected areas, or “parks”, are among the leading policy tools used to stem tropical deforestation, rigorous … relatively little deforestation—have only recently begun to appear. Important open questions concern the link between the …, mixed-use protection in this park has been more effective in stemming deforestation than strict protection because of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208625
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Strict versus Mixed Use Protected Areas: Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve
Blackman, Allen
Although protected areas, or “parks”, are among the leading policy tools used to stem tropical deforestation, rigorous … relatively little deforestation—have only recently begun to appear. An important open question is how the stringency of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010770441
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Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities: Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon
Miranda, Juan José; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 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'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240386
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Health impacts of power-exporting plants in northern Mexico
Blackman, Allen; Chandru, Santosh; Mendoza-Domínguez, … - In: Energy Policy 44 (2012) C, pp. 34-45
In the past two decades, rapid population and economic growth on the U.S.–Mexico border has spurred a dramatic increase in electricity demand. In response, American energy multinationals have built power plants just south of the border that export most of their electricity to the U.S. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011046993