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Forest policy enforcement at the Amazon frontier : the case of Mato Grosso, Brazil
Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila Avelina - 2005
Mit dem Ziel einer erhöhten Durchsetzung der Waldgesetze zur Kontrolle von Entwaldung führte die Umweltbehörde von Mato … achieve greater forest policy enforcement to control deforestation. This dissertation assesses the effectiveness of Mato … economics and geography. To assess program effectiveness based on deforestation rates from 1996 to 2002, an application of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476248
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GHG Mitigation Potential, Costs and Benefits in Global Forests: ADynamic Partial Equilibrium Approach
Sathaye, Jayant; Makundi, Willy; Dale, Larry; Chan, Peter; … - 2008
-and short-rotation forestry, and the reduction of deforestation -- wereanalyzed using a global dynamic partial equilibrium model … carbonemissions from deforestation, in response to six carbon price scenariosfrom 2000 to 2100. These carbon price scenarios cover a … early lead to earlier carbongain and vice versa, and avoided deforestation accounts for 51 to 78percent of modeled carbon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437190
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Empirical Accounting of Adaptation to Environmental Change: Organizational Competencies and Biodiversity in Finnish Forest Management
Primmer, Eeva; Wolf, Steven A. - 2009
"Integration of biodiversity conservation into economic utilization of natural resources has become a central response to the challenges of sustainable development. However, the resources and competencies required to implement such an integrated strategy at the level of the individual, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468323
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Promising Business Models for Community-Company Collaboration in Brazil and Mexico
Vidal, Natália G.; Donini, Gabriela - 2004
From Introduction: "Agreements between forest companies and forest communities may offer potential solutions to one or more of the conflicting objectives the global forest sector has been required to face. Some studies (Mayers and Vermeulen, 2002; Scherr, White, and Kaimowitz, 2003) have identified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468329
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Perspectives on Nature, Conservation and Management: The Brazilian Eucalyptus Monoculture through the Eyes of Conservationist NGOs and Local Communities
Campello do Amaral Mello, Cecelia - 2004
From p. 1-2: "Eucalyptus cultivation and the cellulose industry are expanding fast in impoverished areas of Brazil, as a result of the global demand for cellulose, governmental economic incentives and the absence of economic-ecological zoning. Areas formerly devoted to family-farming and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468382
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Firewood Survey: Theory and Methodology
Thomson, James T.; French, D.; Larson, P. - 1980
includes interviews of forestry officials, rural producer-consumers of wood, and charcoal makers. Group 2, which focuses on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468445
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DG V, DG VI and DG XVI [Directorates General V, VI, and XVI]
Brown, David - 1998
"Structural Funds are available as non-reimbursable grants, on the basis of co-financing ('part-financing') with the relevant Member States. The level of co-financing depends on the objective of the programme, and is up to a maximum of between 50 and 85%. There are five sets of priority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468466
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Financing the Management of the Commons: A Case of the Forestry Sector in Sri Lanka
Perera, N.; Senaratne, A. - 2011
"The sustainable management of the commons is now being highly discussed with the recognition of the role played by the commons for social welfare and realizing the necessity of maintaining the stock of common resources for well being of the future generations. However, just like for other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468479
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Desenvolvimento econômico e Desmatamento na Amazônia Legal: Uma Análise Econométrica
Gomes, Sergio Castro; Braga, Marcelo Jose - 2008
, environmental Kuznetsapplied to the relationship between the rate of deforestation in per capita income in the statesof Amazonia … Legal, besides analyzing the behavior of the rate of deforestation and populationdynamics in the period of 1990-2004. The … regression, the first isa function quadratic and cubic according to a function, where the rate of deforestation is thevariable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445214