This paper examines the role and impact of taxation on sustainable forest management. It is shown that fiscal … instruments neither reinforce nor substitute for traditional regulatory approaches. Far from encouraging more sustainable forest … root of the Faustmann solution to draw conclusions on the incentives for sustainable tropical forest exploitation. The …

significantly contributes to global emissions, inter alia with deforestation and non-sustainable forest management. In the light of … are actually relevant for an effective climate agreement for the forest sector. To assess the countries' relevance, we … reporting for the forest sector. The results show that climate relevant countries are distributed all over the world and cannot …

increased nature quality. So far, several benefits of acidification abatement, such as reduced health risks, had been determined …, but the benefits of increased nature quality were lacking, although nature is actually one of the most important reasons … increased nature quality due to acidification abatement: the non-use value and the recreational perception value. For other …

Catastrophic deforestation and environmental degradation have become habits of thought about forest landscapes in Latin … America's tropics. Yet these truisms blind analysts to three surprising changes. First, deforestation has slowed dramatically …. Next, forest resurgence-largely a function of natural regeneration-is widely documented throughout the region on previously …

hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified …

To avoid conflicts often associated with mandatory regulations, it is crucial to motivate and incentivize forest owners … to participate in voluntary conservation programs. To investigate forest owner preferences and willingness to accept … compensation (WTA) to participate, we conduct a contingent valuation survey of non-industrial private forest owners in Norway. We …

A forest ecosystem is a terrestrial unit of living organisms (plants, animals and microorganisms), all interacting … denominator" of that forest ecological community is a tree, who most faithfully obeys the ecological cycles of energy, water …, carbon and nutrients. A forest ecosystem would be considered having boundaries and would include a forest of trees out to the …

forests and biodiversity by facilitating logging, land conversion, and the seizure of forest rights by vested interests … soundness of this Agenda, the progress achieved to date, and the priorities for the future. It emphasises the nature of forests …