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In Namibia, as in many parts of Africa, households are highly dependent on fastdegrading forest resources for their livelihoods, including energy needs. Using data originally collected for Namibia's forest resource accounts and insights from a nonseparable household model, this paper empirically...
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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is built on a conceptual framework that links biodiversity to the services ecosystems provide to society. Based on this framework, we first compile market and non-market forest valuation studies and, secondly, explore the potential of an econometric modeling...
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area, including stronger protective measures for forests. However, any implementation of dedicated measures will reduce … roundwood production in EU member states as a result of implementing partial or full production restrictions in forests. In a … for Germany: (i) 10 % share of forest area set-aside, (ii) non-utilization of 'old-growth forests' and (iii) 30 % share of …
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consumption systems is necessary to safeguard and maintain global commons, such as biodiversity, natural forests and the ocean … forests and the ocean by (i) examining the recommendations from global assessments and reports on the state of nature and the … environment, and (ii) by analysing international cooperation projects for biodiversity, forests and the ocean with regard to their …
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Since the year 2018, the yield and management situation in German forest enterprises is characterized by extreme weather events (storms, draught) and, consequently, bark beetle calamities, leading to a significant above-average occurrence of damaged timber. In addition to processing the damaged...
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This paper investigates the effects of urban green and abandoned areas on residential well-being in major German cities, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the time period between 2000 and 2012 and cross-section data from the European Urban Atlas (EUA) for the year...
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cover increased between 1990 and 2010. As "forests" is a heterogeneous group, a biodiversity-corrected Forestation Index is … also introduced to distinguish between different forms of "environmentally valuable" new forests (that are expected to have … forestation and different types should be acknowledged - treatment of forests as a homogenous category is an oversimplification. …
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Bund-Länder-Sitzungen, interne Aufzeichnungen zur Datenhaltung beim Thünen-Institut für Waldökosysteme, ICP Forests …The crown condition of forest trees is an important indicator for the vitality of forests. Since the beginning of the … federal and state working-group, internal records of the Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Manuals of ICP Forests). The …
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This paper presents an optimal control model to analyze reforestations with two different species, including commercial values, carbon sequestration and biodiversity or scenic values. We solve the model qualitatively with general functions and discuss the implications of partial or total...
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potential of grasslands and forests as reservoirs of carbon absorbtion and stocking from the greenhouse gases, respectively … anthropic emissions in agriculture, industry, transports or circular economy. Data and information utilized have evidenced that … Scandinavian states and in the Russian Federation these ones inccreased their areas. In dynamics, the area of the European forests …
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