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Cost-effective payments for reducing emissions from deforestation under uncertainty

Engel, Stefanie; Palmer, Charles; Taschini, Luca; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

for payments for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). Given that REDD will not represent a …

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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

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Additional CO2 emissions from land use change — Forest conservation as a precondition for sustainable production of second generation bioenergy

Popp, Alexander; Krause, Michael; Dietrich, Jan Philipp; … - In: Ecological Economics 74 (2012) C, pp. 64-70

In the past, deforestation, mainly driven by the conversion of natural forests to agricultural land, contributed up to …

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Land use dynamics in the central highlands of Vietnam: a spatial model combining village survey data with satellite imagery interpretation

Muller, Daniel; Zeller, Manfred - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 27 (2002) 3

The paper investigates geo-physical, agro-ecological, and socio-economic determinants of past land use change in two districts of Dak Lak province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and assesses the influence of rural development policies on land cover change. Landsat satellite images from the...

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Conservation through intensification? The effects of plantations on natural forests

Heilmayr, Robert - In: Ecological Economics 105 (2014) C, pp. 204-210

The rapid growth in plantation forestry over the past two decades attests to the sector's importance in meeting rising global demand for timber, fuel and fiber. However, plantation forests differ dramatically from natural forests in the types of ecosystem services they can provide. As a result,...

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Modeling Impact of Development Trajectories and a Global Agreement on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation on Congo Basin Forests by 2030

Mosnier, A.; Havlík, P.; Obersteiner, M.; Aoki, K.; … - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 57 (2014) 4, pp. 505-525

more preserved during the last decades with a much lower deforestation rate. At the same time, the region remains one of … multiply deforestation by three. In contrast, a global agreement on reduction of total emissions from deforestation could … achieve important cuts in GHG emissions from deforestation in the Congo Basin. However, it could lead to substantial increases …

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