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Deforestation in the North western part of Pakistan is a long standing problem. The Forestry Department, as formal … further reform the Forestry Department, the question is whether organizational reform is the answer. We think there are more … limiting bottlenecks to sustainable forest management in Pakistan. De facto property rights are not as simple as denoted by …
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Owing to the extensive critique of food-crop-based biofuels, attention and hopes have turned toward second-generation wood-based biofuels. An important question is therefore whether wood from boreal forests could serve as a source for biofuels. However, in a typical boreal forest, it takes...
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forestry sector within climate mitigation. Improvements on database and modelling frameworks allow accounting for land … heterogeneity across and within regions and for land transfers between agriculture, grazing, and forestry. The forestry sector has … forestry practices. Results show that including forest carbon in the compliance strategy decreases European policy costs and …
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traditionally used in forestry economics reflect. This essay analyses some challenges of accounting for such complexity. When forest …
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contradict conventional wisdom in forestry, we believe that this report contributes valuable insights to the continued efforts to … further sustainable forestry in Tanzania. We begin by outlining the global ideals of participatory forestry. We then present … before concluding with some general recommendations for improving participatory forestry policy and guidelines. …
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partial equilibrium model of the forestry sector. We find that integrating avoided deforestation in international emissions … costs. Regarding uncertainties of this future carbon abatement option, we find both forestry transaction costs and …
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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...
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Der vorliegende Arbeitsbericht baut auf die Reformdebatte zur künftigen Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) der EU mit Stand von Ende September 2013 (Ergebnisse des Trilogs zwischen EUKommission, Parlament und Rat) auf und nimmt die Integration von Klimaschutz und Klimaanpassung in die Agrarpolitik...
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In this paper we study the optimal forest conservation policy by a hyperbolically discounting society. Society comprises a series of non-overlapping imperfectly altruistic generations each represented by its own government. Under uncertainty about future pay-offs we determine, as solution of an...
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