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equilibrium model of the world economy. The main results show that deforestation emissions in Brazil can be reduced at very low …, including actions to cut emissions from deforestation and agricultural production. We employ a dynamic-recursive general … carbon taxes on agricultural production indirectly reduce deforestation rates. However, directly cutting emissions from …
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The negative impacts of climate change have made poverty and deforestation topics of heightened interest within global … community discussions in recent years. Our study contributes to the debate over the links between poverty and deforestation by … there is a non-linear relationship between SWB, as well as other poverty proxies, and deforestation. We found that objective …
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This study estimates inter-fuel substitution elasticities and long-run substitution elasticities between energy and non-energy aggregate inputs used by production sectors in Malawi. All fuels are Morishima substitutes but there are significant sectoral variations in the magnitude of the...
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to the globally efficient policy to avoid deforestation. …
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This paper reviews perceived notions of the relationships between catchment land use and hydrology and explores whether much of the widely disseminated folklore, so often inextricably linked with issues of land use, is based on myth or reality. Gaps in our knowledge of the underlying processes...
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Policymakers in the Brazilian Amazon face the challenge of meeting environmental and developmental goals as cities and towns within these tropical forests continue to face migration pressure. Alternative government planning strategies have been implemented to address forest clearing in...
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presented in this work represents itself as part of a study that attempts to understand the deforestation of Amazonia Legal … deforestation during the process of economic development of respective states of the region. This development is based, above all … growth is strongly related to a large portion of the increase in the rate of deforestation in the Amazon region observed …
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paper frames the issues in terms of avoiding deforestation but the results are applicable to any voluntary offset program. …
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growth of per capita income helps to reduce deforestation in the region. However, the continuous increase of per capita GDP … leads to deforestation to grow back. …
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