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Spatial dependence and individual-tree growth models I. Characterising spatial dependence
Fox, J. C.; Bi, H. Q.; Ades, P. K. - 2007
Spatial dependence in individual-tree diameter, and growth model residuals was characterised for an even-aged Eucalyptus pilularis (Smith) experiment in New South Wales,. Australia. The magnitude of spatial dependence changed as the dominance of competitive mechanisms and micro-site influences...
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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 … forest industry that demonstrate interest in linking low-income forest producers to the private forest sector and market …
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...
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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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Cashing in on Carbon--Land and Offset Project Valuation: Incorporating Climate Legislation and Environmental Incentives in Property and Project Appraisal
Davis, Nicholas J. - 2010
). Users can tailor inputs like acreage availability, forest type, and start-up costs to yield rough estimates of project and … tree planting projects, not existing forest tracts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475436
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Accessing the viability of HTR - Indonesia's community-based forest plantation program
Schneck, Joshua - 2009
decades of overharvesting and clearing to bridge supply gaps, Indonesia’s forests and forest industries are in a crisis, with … declining stocks of timber to support forest-dependent livelihoods and biodiversity, and large recurring emissions of … and forest-sector policies which reduce market distortions, improve market transparency and liquidity, and raise domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475618
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Guiding preventative wildland fire mitigation policy and decisions with an economic modeling system.
Stockmann, Keith; Burchfield, James; Calkin, Dave; … - 2010
The protection of private residences from wildland fire produces high levels of cost and safety risk to firefighters, especially with the expanding ex-urban settlement pattern in the wildland urban interface (WUI). Economic information on probable structure losses can help guide efficient...
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