Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick zur Entwicklung und Zukunft der weltweiten Wälder und stellt die Programme zur Wiederaufforstung vor, die dem Klimawandel und dem Artenschwund entgegenwirken sollen.

This paper quantitatively assesses the economic implications of crediting carbon abatement from reduced deforestation for the emissions market in 2020 by linking a numerical equilibrium model of the global carbon market with a dynamic partial equilibrium model of the forestry sector. We find...

Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has been proposed as a potentially inexpensive and plentiful source of emission abatement to supplement other longterm climate policies. However, critics doubt that REDD credits are environmentally equivalent to domestic emission...

This paper analyses the environmental dimensions the past accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EU in order to draw lessons for the current accession of countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A distinction is made between scale, composition and technique effects. Two major conclusions...

In this paper, we develop a theoretical model that provides an additional explanation for the forest transition based on a trade liberalisation scenario. Furthermore, in contrast with most explanations, in which the forest transition can only take place at a local level at the expense of other...

Recent years have seen a growing literature on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) that resorts in a large part to cointegration techniques. The EKC literature has failed to acknowledge that such regressions involve unit root nonstationary regressors and their integer powers (e.g. GDP and GDP...

Ergänzend zu dem im ifo Schnelldienst 19/2001 diskutierten Thema »Klimaschutz - ist das Emissionshandelssystem ein effizientes Mittel zur Emissionsverringerung?« sind Prof. Dr. Uwe Schubert und Oliver Percl, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, der Ansicht, »dass beim derzeitigen Wissensstand die...

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,...