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AN Amazon Perspective on the Forest-Climate Connection: Opportunity for Climate Mitigation, Conservation and Development?
Carvalho, Georgia; Moutinho, Paulo; Nepstad, Daniel; … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 6 (2004) 1, pp. 163-174
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010997172
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The Positive Feedback Loop between the Impacts of Climate Change and Agricultural Expansion and Relocation
Bajželj, Bojana; Richards, Keith S. - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 898-916
Climate change and agriculture influence each other. The effects of climate change on agriculture seem to be predominantly negative, although studies show a large variation in impacts between crops and regions. To compensate for these effects, agriculture can either intensify or expand in area;...
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Impacts of Paving Roads for Development in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Deforestation and Biological Carbon Loss
Li, Man; De Pinto, Alessandro; Ulimwengu, John M.; You, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This paper develops an econometric model to explore the determinants of land use choices for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The model is not just capable of representing land use choices using large aggregation categories, but it also allocates agricultural area to the country relevant...
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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Supply for the G-7 Countries, with Emphasison Germany
Strand, Jon - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper discusses structure, impact, costs, and efficiency of renewable energy supply in the eight largest advanced economies (the G-7 plus Spain), with focus on Germany. Renewables production costs are compared to benefits, defined as reductions in net carbon emissions; technological...
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010847202
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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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Population, Land Use and Deforestation in the Pan Amazon Basin: a Comparison of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú and Venezuela
Perz, Stephen; Aramburú, Carlos; Bremner, Jason - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 7 (2005) 1, pp. 23-49
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010997221
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Theorizing Land-Cover and Land-Use Change: The Case of Tropical Deforestation
Walker, Robert - In: International Regional Science Review 27 (2004) 3, pp. 247-270
to land use in mainly urban models, the article filters a discussion of deforestation through the lens of bid-rent and …
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The Economics of Endangered Species
Innes, Robert; Frisvold, George - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 485-512
Because habitat conversion is the greatest threat to species, this article focuses on economic incentives for private land users to protect habitat. Habitat protection policies that fail to account for private incentives often have unintended negative consequences. Private incentives for habitat...
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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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