Combining a popular flood disaster dataset with climate data and satellite land cover data from China, this paper … forest area mitigates the possibility of flood occurrence even after controlling for socioeconomic and meteorological … the first to show that the type of forest is critical for mitigating floods in a rigorous econometric way spanning …

dynamics of forest resources and provide an impact assessment of forest policies on China's forestry development over the last …Using the latest forest inventory, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of China's forest sector by focusing on … new forest trends, forest policy changes and challenges to achieve a sustainable forest management. We analyze the …

First-best optimal forest sector carbon policy is examined. Using a comprehensive forest sector model with a detailed … forest bioenergy. However, under the biomass stock change carbon accounting convention followed by UNFCCC and IPCC, the … forest owners pay for the roundwood emissions and, to avoid double counting, the use of roundwood is treated as emission free …

This paper deals with private forest owners' insurance demand against forest fire risk. Econometric analysis is … realized on a sample of forest owners from Aquitaine. It allows identifying determinants of participation to insurance from … the expected loss of forestry income, self-insurance, uncertainty characterizing the probability of occurrence of natural …

While a comprehensive economic valuation of all use and non-use values of the forest is impossible, indigenous … societies seem to have a clear, albeit inchoate idea of the value of the forest on which they depend for their material and …, and then a valuable resource for economic development, and abrogated the customary rights of indigenous forest villagers …

recognizing forest carbon in climate policy. Specifically, we investigate the impact of an asymmetric carbon policy that … of not recognizing positive emissions from a reduction in the stock of forest biomass, or of not recognizing negative … emissions from the growth of forest biomass. We show that asymmetric carbon policies lead to lower levels of welfare, as well as …

The framework and starting point for analyzing forest and forestry project activities under the clean development … forest and forestry project activities to afforestation and reforestation. Following this track, environmental, socio …;reservoirsquot; can play in mitigating climate change. The analysis takes off by differentiating the international legal status of forest …

growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three instruments of forest exploitation, the study shows how rural …, agricultural and national population growths affect forest-area and agricultural-land. In this particular study the findings … indicate that instruments of forest exploitation do not explain changes in forest-area and agricultural-land beyond population …

IAMs with the complex dynamic structure of forests and forest supply is a daunting intertemporal task. This study examines … the market for woody biomass by combining the integrated assessment model WITCH with the global dynamic forestry model GTM … biomass program. Forest area will expand by 70-95% leading to increased storage of 685-1,279 GtCO2 in forest by 2100. Overall …

variables and forest fires. A number of studies have related forest fires to causes of ignition, to fire history in one area, to … observational approach is first applied to select forest fires in the north east of Spain. Taking a selection of fires with a …