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Parks, Buffer Zones, and Costly Enforcement
Robinson, Elizabeth; Albers, Heido J. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006
The reality of protected area management is that enforcing forest and park boundaries is costly and so most likely incomplete, due in part to the pressures exerted on the boundaries by local people who often have traditionally relied on the park resources. Buffer zones are increasingly being...
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Transboundary Marine Resources and Trading Neighbours
Rus, Horatiu - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 53 (2012) 2, pp. 159-184
The importance of space in analyzing issues pertaining to renewable resources can hardly be overstated. Many such resources are mobile and spatially heterogeneous with respect to bio-economic variables, with important implications for both domestic management regimes and for international...
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Alternative Forms of Mineral Taxation, Market Failure and the Environment
Muzondo, Timothy R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992
This paper examines the environmental effects of mineral taxes in a framework that recognizes the importance of rates and cumulative externalities and proposes an appropriate corrective tax. It concludes that mineral resources taxation should combine neutral taxes with a dynamic Pigovian type...
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Leture Notes on Sustainability.
Heal, G. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1995
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Global Environment and North-South Trade.
Chichilnisky, G. - Graduate School of Business, Columbia University - 1993
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New trade in renewable resources and consumer preferences for diversity
Quaas, Martin F.; Stöven, Max T. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014
The literature on trade in renewable resources implicitly assumes that the traded resources are perfect substitutes. We model trade in renewable resources as stipulated not only by autarky price differences, but also by consumers' love of variety. We show that the love-of-variety effect enables...
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I think that I shall never see {hor_ellipsis} a lovely forestry policy: Land use programs for conservation of forests
Rayner, S.F.; Richards, K.R. - 2008
Forestry programs are frequently invoked as having potential for mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Most studies … programs. In this paper, we will attempt instead to focus on the institutional issues of the implementation of forestry … simple tree-planting case. Section 4 considers implementation of forestry policies in other countries where the economies may …
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APPLICATION AND APPRAISAL OF A MULTI-OBJECTIVE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR THE EVALUATION OF FARM FORESTRY VIABILITY
David Ian Jeffreys - 2009
Abstract This thesis presents innovative applications of Multi-Objective Decision Support Systems (MODSS) to forestry … decision support. New MODSS methodologies were developed to assess and evaluate forestry practices and finance regimes. The … assessment of forestry investments draw on case studies conducted in the Hodgson Creek catchment on the Darling Downs in south …
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India : Alleviating Poverty through Forest Development
Kumar, Nalini; Saxena, Naresh; Alagh, Yoginder; Mitra, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group
This case study, one of six evaluations in a series of country case studies, aims to understand the implementation of the 1991 Forest Strategy in World Bank operations and to obtain the views of the various stakeholders in the country about the involvement of the Bank. Each country study...
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Brazil - Forests in the Balance : Challenges of Conservation with Development
Lele, Uma; Viana, Virgilio; Verissimo, Adalberto; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group
nonlending activities of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility. The World Bank has clearly diminished its …
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