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major driver of deforestation. Much of the forest in Jambi was cleared more than 20 years ago, and rubber was an established … activities, so indirect effects on deforestation are likely. The government's transmigration program of the 1980s and 1990s was …
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Poverty, Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in Guatemala This paper explores the causes of deforestation and … biodiversity loss in Guatemala and is organized into 4 parts. First, an overview about deforestation in Guatemala from 1950-2000 is … provided, and the relationship between deforestation and biodiversity loss is explored. Secondly, some underlying causes of …
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Many developing countries possess comparative advantage both in natural resources and in labor-intensive industries, and experience both industrial pollution and natural resource degradation. We present a model that incorporates these stylized facts together with key spatial features and...
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important and essential input into the Campeche shrimp fishery, but that low levels of deforestation between 1980 and 1990 mean …
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Futtermitteln indirekt zur Entwaldung bei. Mit der Amsterdam Erklärung 2015 hat die deutsche Bundesregierung gemeinsam mit anderen … europäischen Staaten erklärt, privatwirtschaftliche Initiativen dabei zu unterstützen, bis 2020 Agrar-Lieferketten von Entwaldung …The production of soy is an important driver for the deforestation of primary forests, especially in Brazil. The …
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Auswirkungen von Politikinstrumenten auf die Entwaldung und auf Aufforstungsprozesse sowie die Nachhaltigkeit der Landnutzung im … impact of policy instruments on deforestation and reforestation processes as well as land-use dynamics and sustainability in …
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across developing Asia will need to address towards 2030: water management, air pollution, deforestation and land degradation …
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The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land for this use …. Unlike direct land conversion, indirect land-use changes affecting deforestation are not immediately observable. They require … deforestation. This indirect land-use effect is shown to be a dynamic process materializing over 10 to 15 years. …
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region. Bhutan and Nepal together have an economically feasible potential of 60,000 MW of hydroelectric power generation …
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Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households' incomes in the Himalayas. This paper …
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