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Economic and Environmental Benefits of Eliminating Log Export Bans; The Case of Costa Rica
Kishor, Nalin M.; Mani, Muthukumara; Constantino, Luis F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
An increasing number of tropical timber producing nations have enacted bans on export of logs. Proponents argue that a log export ban is a second-best policy tool for addressing environmental externalities; it also creates more jobs and improves scale efficiencies domestically. Theoretical...
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Use of wood fuels from boreal forests will create a biofuel carbon debt with a long payback time
Holtsmark, Bjart - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2010
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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Comprehensive analysis of greenhouse gas emissions in Hungary
S. Molnar, M. Molnar, T. Takacs - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 5 (2002) 1/2, pp. 195-203
This paper overviews the anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in Hungary in the period 1985–95. The emissions have been determined and reported according to the IPCC methodologies. The emissions of greenhouse gases decreased until 1994, basically as a result of the economic recession....
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The Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Verification of Climate Change Projects
Vine, Edward; Sathaye, Jayant - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 4 (1999) 1, pp. 43-60
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Modeling linkages between climate policy and land use: an overview.
van der Werf, Edwin; Peterson, Sonja - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2009
Agriculture and forestry play an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. For an efficient and cost …-effective climate policy, it is therefore important to include land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) explicitly in economy …
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ЛЕСНАЯ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКАЯ СТАТИСТИКА В СИСТЕМЕ ИНФОРМАЦИОННОГО ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ ЛЕСНЫМ ХОЗЯЙСТВОМ...
СЕРГЕЕВИЧ, ПРОКОПОВИЧ СЕРГЕЙ - In: Труды Белорусского … (2008) 3, pp. 230-233
the economic statistics of forestry of the Republic of Belarus is the important direction in the development of forest … complex and all economy as a whole. Parameters of statistics of forestry characterize use and restoration of forest resources …, and also for the decision of perspective and problem questions of development of forestry. In given article presents the …
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КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНЫЕ И МЕТОДОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ОСНОВЫ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ СИСТЕМЫ ПОКАЗАТЕЛЕЙ ЛЕСНОЙ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЙ СТАТИСТИКИ...
СЕРГЕЕВИЧ, ПРОКОПОВИЧ СЕРГЕЙ - In: Труды Белорусского … (2009) 3, pp. 229-231
экономических процессов и основах экологической и экономической безопасности.The perfection of the economic statistics of forestry …. Parameters of statistics of forestry characterize use and restoration of forest resources and are applied to planning, the … perspective and problem questions of development of forestry. In given article presents conceptual bases of construction of the …
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MANEJO FLORESTAL EMPRESARIAL NO ACRE: CUSTOS DA ATIVIDADE PRÉ-EXPLORATÓRIA NA FLORESTA ESTADUAL DO ANTIMARY.
Franco, Carlos Alberto; Esteves, Lara Torchi; Santos, … - Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural - SOBER - 2008
Esta pesquisa aborda a atividade madeireira sob o regime de concessão florestal desenvolvido no Estado do Acre. Os objetivos do presente estudo são: identificar o custo da produção do manejo florestal sustentável (MFS) para produção madeireira, tendo como base a Floresta Estadual do...
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The Impact of China’s Priority Forest Programs on Rural Households Income Mobility
Liu, Can; Wang, Sen; Liu, Hao; Zhu, Wenqing - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2012
Over the past two decades, China has undertaken unprecedented forest programs in an effort to restore damaged ecosystems and increasing farmers’ income. Using survey results of 2,070 rural households in 15 counties of six provinces, we estimate the effects of China’s Priority Forest Programs...
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Structural estimation of a dynamic model of joint production of timber and amenities
Foncel, Jérôme; Kéré, Eric - Laboratoire d'Économie Forestière, Département … - 2013
Using a stochastic dynamic programming model we analyze how French private forest owners make inter-temporal trade-offs between non-timber amenities and timber income. We explicitly take into account the price expectations and forest growth. In addition, unlike previous empirical studies...
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