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Mitigation potential and cost in tropical forestry - relative role for agroforestry
Makundi, Willy R.; Sathaye, Jayant A. - 2009
This paper summarizes studies of carbon mitigation potential (MP) and costs of forestry options in seven developing … forestland for other uses such as agriculture and pasture. By using data on estimated carbon sequestration, emission avoidance … and potential area currently engaged in agriculture, but they pose unique challenges for carbon and cost accounting due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436333
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Index of harm: a measure for comparing occupational risk across industries
Solomon, K.A.; Abraham, S.C. - 2008
fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436578
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A Modern Tragedy of the Non-Commons: Agro-Industrial Change and Equity in Brazil's Babassu Palm Zone
May, Peter H. - 1986
use (chiefly pasture) conversion and technical change in both agriculture and babassu industries have redefined property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468356
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442826
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Context-Dependent Biodiversity Conservation Management Regimes
Gjertsen, Heidi; Behr, Diji Chandrasekharan - 2000
"The central challenge of tropical biodiversity conservation involves reconciling private and social incentives to 'internalize' externalities. Positive externalities of natural resource conservation accrue at the local, national and global levels, although the costs of conservation are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468344
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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