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Rights of Indigenous Groups over Natural Resources in Tropical Forests
Tresierra, Julio C. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
This study analyzes present-day and historical demographic, socioeconomic, and cultural changes in traditional native groups and in their environment, which have led to a growing loss of ethnic and ecological diversity in the main tropical rainforests of Latin America. The study summarizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654963
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Rights of Indigenous Groups over Natural Resources in Tropical Forests
Tresierra, Julio C. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
This study analyzes present-day and historical demographic, socioeconomic, and cultural changes in traditional native groups and in their environment, which have led to a growing loss of ethnic and ecological diversity in the main tropical rainforests of Latin America. The study summarizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009198412
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CONSTRUCTING A HEALTH AND SOCIAL INDICATOR FRAMEWORK FOR INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY HEALTH RESEARCH
Marks, Elisabeth; Cargo, Margaret; Daniel, Mark - In: Social Indicators Research 82 (2007) 1, pp. 93-110
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009400636
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Mahinga kai
Water, Esther; Cahn, Miranda - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 9 (2007) 3, pp. 338-343
Access to mahinga kai (food-gathering places) is a central aspect of New Zealand Maori development and well-being, providing not only a source of food and access to material goods for subsistence, but also the opportunity to embody cultural values through lived practice, linking people and...
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Preliminary Evidence on Responses to the New Zealand Forestry Emissions Trading Scheme
Karpas, Eric; Kerr, Suzi - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2011
New Zealand is the first country to implement a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) that includes a forestry … climate change agreement the Kyoto Protocol. The goal of this paper is to provide information o forestry’s role in the New … first provides a brief outline of the role of forestry in New Zealand’s ETS, including the reasons for its inclusion in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644188
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Productivity in the New Zealand primary and downstream sectors
Cao, Kay; Forbes, Rod; Gardiner, Peter - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2007
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry maintains a total factor productivity series for the primary sectors. As part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004989465
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Are Non-Exporters Locked out of Foreign Markets because of Low Productivity?: Evidence from New Zealand Agriculture and Forestry
Iyer, Kris; Stevens, Philip Andrew; Austin, Darran - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 2, pp. 1694-1709
international markets due to low productivity. Using a panel dataset of 88,752 New Zealand agriculture and forestry sector firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542661
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China’s recent growth and its impact on the New Zealand economy
Bowman, Scott; Conway, Patrick - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2013
China has generally not come at the expense of lower export volumes to other markets. Since 2001, dairy and forestry exports … the main driver of increased dairy and forestry production recently and they have also outperformed the rest of the … economy. Since 2008, the dairy and forestry industries have contributed 2.1 percentage points to real production GDP growth …
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The Outlook for China’s Growth and its Impact on New Zealand Exports
Bowman, Scott; Conway, Patrick - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2013
The People’s Republic of China has become increasingly important to the New Zealand economy since the start of economic liberalisation in China more than 30 years ago, particularly in the past decade. This paper is the second of three looking at the impact of China on the New Zealand economy....
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A Forest-Profit Expectations Dataset for New Zealand, 1990–2008
Olssen, Alex; Zhang, Wei; Evison, David; Kerr, Suzi - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2012
In this paper, we construct a dataset of annual expected forest profits in New Zealand from 1990–2008 at a fine spatial resolution. We do not include land values in any of our profit calculations. We estimate four measures of expected forest profits based around net present value (NPV), land...
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