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Oil Palm Boom and Land-Use Dynamics in Indonesia: The Role of Policies and Socioeconomic Factors
Gatto, Marcel; Wollni, Meike; Qaim, Matin - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
major driver of deforestation. Much of the forest in Jambi was cleared more than 20 years ago, and rubber was an established … activities, so indirect effects on deforestation are likely. The government’s transmigration program of the 1980s and 1990s was …
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Forest Clearing in Rural Livelihoods: Household-Level Global-Comparative Evidence
Babigumira, Ronnie; Angelsen, Arild; Buis, Maarten; … - In: World Development 64 (2014) S1, pp. 67-67
This paper examines the factors that influence rural household decisions to clear forestland. We use a large dataset comprising 7172 households from 24 developing countries. Twenty-seven percent of sampled households had converted forest to agriculture during the previous 12months, clearing on...
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Deforestation, Growth and Agglomeration Effects: Evidence from Agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon
Igliori, Danilo - Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge - 2008
The role of population growth and migration has been emphasized as a key variable to explain deforestation and land … economic growth and deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon. The regression estimates indicate that there is a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510570
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Carbon emissions from land-use change: an analysis of causal factors in Chiapas, Mexico
Castillo-Santiago, M.; Hellier, A.; Tipper, R.; Jong, B. - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 12 (2007) 6, pp. 1213-1235
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Accounting for time in Mitigating Global Warming through land-use change and forestry
Fearnside, Philip; Lashof, Daniel; Moura-Costa, Pedro - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 5 (2000) 3, pp. 239-270
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Wetlands Retention and Optimal Management of Waterfowl Habitat under Climate Change
Withey, Patrick; Kooten, G. Cornelis van - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 39 (2014) 1
We develop a positive mathematical programming model to investigate the impact of climate change on land use in the prairie pothole region of western Canada, with particular focus on wetlands retention. We examine the effect of climate change and biofuel policies that are implemented to mitigate...
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LAND-USE CHANGE AND GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN THE FAPRI-CARD MODEL SYSTEM: ADDRESSING BIAS AND UNCERTAINTY
ELOBEID, AMANI E.; CARRIQUIRY, MIGUEL A.; FABIOSA, … - In: Climate Change Economics (CCE) 03 (2012) 03, pp. 1250014-1
Even with a normalized and standardized biofuel shock, the wide range of land-use change estimates and their associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have raised concern on the adequacy of existing agricultural models in this new area of analysis. In particular, reducing bias and improving...
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Implications of Alternative Mitigation Policies on World Prices for Fossil Fuels and Agricultural Products
Paltsev, Sergey - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
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Dynamics of indirect land-use change: empirical evidence from Brazil
Palmer, Charles; Di Falco, Salvatore - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land for this use …. Unlike direct land conversion, indirect land-use changes affecting deforestation are not immediately observable. They require …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744990
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Dynamics of indirect land-use change: Empirical evidence from Brazil
Andrade de Sá, Saraly; Palmer, Charles; di Falco, Salvatore - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 65 (2013) 3, pp. 377-393
The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land for this use …. Unlike direct land conversion, indirect land-use changes affecting deforestation are not immediately observable. They require … deforestation. This indirect land-use effect is shown to be a dynamic process materializing over 10–15 years. …
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