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Poverty alleviation and local environmental degradation : an empirical analysis in Colombia
Malerba, Daniele - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 127 (2020), pp. 1-18
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Titled Amazon indigenous communities cut forest carbon emissions
Blackman, Allen; Veit, Peter G. - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 153 (2018), pp. 56-67
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Apocalypse now? : climate change and war in Africa
Weezel, Stijn van - 2018
There is a large empirical literature trying to quantify the potentially adverse affects of climate change on the risk of violent armed conflict, which focuses almost exclusively on linking annual variation in climatic conditions to violence. A major shortcoming of this approach is that it...
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Conflicts and political intervention : evidence from the anti-open grazing laws in Nigeria
Hufschmidt, Patrick; Ume, Chukwuma Otum - 2023
This paper empirically investigates the effects of Anti-Open Grazing Laws (AOGLs) on herder-farmer conflicts in Nigeria. The laws, enacted as a response to escalating violent conflicts over fertile land resources between herders and farmers, aimed to reduce clashes by prohibiting livestock...
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Whither the Amazon Forest? A Cold Look at the Impacts of Deforestation and Climate Change
Maletta, Hector E. - 2017
-made deforestation. On the other hand, the Amazon forest itself is a major carbon store area, and carbon dioxide release from … deforestation or forest degradation may strongly contribute to overall future carbon concentrations in the atmosphere, thus …), examines the evidence about past and current deforestation trends and about impacts upon the Amazon of expected climate changes …
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Incentive contracts for environmental services and their potential in REDD
Fortmann, Lea; Cordero-Salas, Paula; Sohngen, Brent; … - In: International review of environmental and resource economics 9 (2015) 3/4, pp. 363-409
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Climate Shocks and Domestic Conflicts in Africa
Diallo, Yoro; Tapsoba, Rene - 2022
This paper analyzes the interlinkages between climate shocks, domestic conflicts, and policy resilience in Africa. It builds on a Correlated Random Effect model to asess these interrelationships on a broad sample of 51 African countries over the 1990-2018 period. We find suggestive evidence that...
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Land use change, carbon, and bioenergy reconsidered
Sedjo, Roger A.; Sohngen, Brent; Riddle, Anne - In: Climate change economics 6 (2015) 1, pp. 1-14
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Effects of changes in forestland ownership on deforestation and urbanization and the resulting effects on greenhouse gas emissions
Cho, Seong-hoon; Kim, Heeho; Roberts, Roland K.; Kim, … - In: Journal of forest economics : JFE 20 (2014) 1, pp. 93-109
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