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Low carbon development and poverty alleviation: Options for development cooperation in energy, agriculture and forestry
Funder, Mikkel; Fjalland, Jacob; Munk Ravnborg, Helle; … - 2009
This report presents the main findings from a desk study on “Climate change mitigation and poverty reduction in developing countries: opportunities for development cooperation.” The study identifies practical options for combining low carbon development with poverty reduction and economic...
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Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD): An overview of risks and opportunities for the poor
Funder, Mikkel - 2009
This report provides an overview of the risks and opportunities associated with REDD for the rural poor in developing countries, with a particular emphasis on the practical forestry options under REDD in LDCs. The Report summarizes and discusses the existing available literature on the subject,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286994
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The dynamic competitiveness of US agricultural and forest carbon sequestration
Lee, Heng-Chi; McCarl, Bruce A. - 2003
Global society is moving towards action to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. This can be expensive and socially disruptive in countries like the United States where the vast majority of emissions arise from electrical energy generation and petroleum usage. Agricultural and forest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291992
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Modeling linkages between climate policy and land use: an overview
van der Werf, Edwin; Peterson, Sonja - 2007
Agriculture and forestry play an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. For an efficient and cost-effective climate policy it is therefore important to explicitly include land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) in economyclimate models. This paper gives an overview and...
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Tropenwaldmanagement: Ein Balanceakt zwischen Schutz und Raubbau
Thiele, Rainer; Wiebelt, Manfred - 1996
Gegenwärtig ist eine exzessive Inanspruchnahme der Tropenwälder durch die Land- und Forstwirtschaft zu beobachten, die … Eigeninteresse der Konzessionäre an einer nachhaltigeren Forstwirtschaft zu wecken. Ver- - bleibende Verzerrungen können durch … wird. Prominente Beispiele für Staatseingriffe, die den Raubbau durch Land- und Forstwirtschaft begünstigen und …
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On the Integration of Carbon Capture and Storage into the International Climate Regime
Bode, Sven; Jung, Martina - 2004
As GHG emissions did not decline as anticipated early of the 1990ties Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) recently gained more and more attention as a climate change mitigation option. However, CO2 suppressed in geological reservoirs is likely to lead to future releases of the CO2 stored. This...
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Analyse ausgewählter internationaler Studien und Dokumente in Hinblick auf Kosten und Potentiale der Minderung von Treibhausgasemissionen sowie des Aufbaus und der Erhaltung von C-...
Osterburg, Bernhard; Röder, Norbert; Elsasser, Peter; … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301087
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Management Challenges for Multiple-Species Boreal Forests
Crépin, Anne Sophie - 2003
Recent research in natural sciences shows that boreal forests' dynamics are much more complex than what many models traditionally used in forestry economics reflect. This essay analyses some challenges of accounting for such complexity. When forest owners continuously harvest several species,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325134
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A game model of people's participation in forest management in Northern India
Lise, Wietze - 2002
People have a marginal role in managing forests located in the vicinity of their villages inNorthern India. This situation is scrutinised in this paper by studying strategic play of forestusers. Thereto, a 1 versus n−1 game of people's participation in forest management is estimatedfor three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335757