effective, efficient, and fair international policy that creates incentives and strengthens capability to reduce deforestation …-based policies that introduce a price incentive for strong states to address deforestation, degradation, and reforestation. The paper …

The need for a global agreement to the problem of tropical deforestation has led to the REDD (Reducing Emissions from … Deforestation and Degradation) scheme, which proposes that the developed countries pay developing countries for CO<sub>2</sub …> emissions saved through avoided deforestation and forest degradation. The remaining issue is specifying the rules defining …

Bolivia has significant potential to abate climate change by reducing deforestation. This opportunity presents economic … an Excel-based tool for analyzing the potential effects of incentive payments to reduce emissions from deforestation … (REDD) in Bolivia. It is based on a spatial econometric model of deforestation in Bolivia during the period 2001-2005, and …

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is an important topic in the debate on policies to …

This study contributes to the debate on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and the … shows that policies that target the local drivers of deforestation, are conditional on environmental outcomes, and account …

Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal …’s presence may induce institutional change. Deforestation can be legal or illegal in the model: each district decides how much to …

to the globally efficient policy to avoid deforestation. …

constraints on local economic development, also differ in their locations. Taking this into account, we estimate the deforestation … locations with unprotected locations that are similar in their characteristics relevant for deforestation. We find that … sustainable use protection, whose governance permits some local deforestation, is found on sites with high clearing threat. That …

Improving information about individual opportunity costs of deforestation agents has the potential to increase the … difference to overall welfare as rents remain with agents. The amount of deforestation avoided will at least be as high as under …

Improving information about individual opportunity costs of deforestation agents has the potential to increase the … difference to overall welfare as rents remain with agents. The amount of deforestation avoided will at least be as high as under …