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Economic Lives of People - A Case Study of Paluthan Community Forest Users in Dang District of Nepal
Gautam, Aakash - 2012
This study deals with the lives of people living in the area under Paluthan Community Forest User Group in Dang district. It looks at the economic aspect of their lives and the help the community forest has been able to provide to improve their livelihood. The primary data were collected through...
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Agricultural Expansion, Forest Products as Safety Nets, and Deforestation
Delacote, Philippe - 2015
This paper aims to address the impact on deforestation of the use of forest products as safety nets by poor agricultural households. Two safety-net uses may be implemented: the diversification strategy and the coping strategy. With both strategies, crop risk reduction, lower risk aversion and...
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A Spatiotemporal Model of Forest Cover Dynamics and Household Land Use Decisions by Subsistence Farmers in Southern Cameroon
Brown, Douglas R. - 2013
Shifting cultivation is one of many phenomena involving the interaction of humans with their natural environment, for which the spatial and temporal dimensions are essential to understanding the system. As a spatiotemporal phenomenon, shifting cultivation uses forest resources to provide the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069239
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Gender lessons for climate initiatives : a comparative study of REDD+ impacts on subjective wellbeing
Larson, Anne M.; Solis, David; Duchelle, Amy E.; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 108 (2018), pp. 86-102
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Does the Love of Forests Bring Happiness? Life Satisfaction of Polish Students and Their Attitude Towards the Forest
Koprowicz, Anna; Baranowska, Marlena; Korzeniewicz, Robert - 2022
The aim of the study is to determine the connection between the attitude towards the forest and life satisfaction of … on a sample of 650 randomly chosen students from Polish universities using The Satisfaction With Life Scale by E. Diener … relationship between life satisfaction and the results of LAS scale. People satisfied with their lives are more involved in …
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Two-stage least squares random forests with an application to Angrist and Evans (1998)
Biewen, Martin; Kugler, Philipp - 2020
We develop the case of two-stage least squares estimation (2SLS) in the general framework of Athey et al. (Generalized … to revisit the classic application of instrumental variables in Angrist and Evans (Children and Their Parents' Labor …
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Two-stage least squares random forests with a replication of angrist and evans (1998)
Biewen, Martin; Kugler, Philipp - 2020
We develop the case of two-stage least squares estimation (2SLS) in the general framework of Athey et al. (Generalized … to revisit the classic application of instrumental variables in Angrist and Evans (Children and Their Parents' Labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424219
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Machine learning and multiple abortions
Kumar, Pradeep; Nicodemo, Catia; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2024
This study employs six Machine Learning methods - Logit, Lasso-Logit, Ridge-Logit, Random Forest, Extreme Gradient Boosting, and an Ensemble - alongside registry data on abortions in Spain from 2011-2019 to predict multiple abortions and assess monetary savings through targeted interventions. We...
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Market-based certification and management of non-timber forest products in Bhutan : organic lemongrass oil, poverty reduction, and environmental sustainability
Yangzom, Karma; Krug, Irmela; Tshomo, Kesang; … - 2008
Sustainable management of non-timber forest products is a serious concern of many developing countries. This study documents an innovative undertaking involving the introduction of a market-based organic certification scheme to improve the resource management and processing of lemongrass in poor...
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The effects of the decentralization of collective bargaining on wages and wage dispersion : evidence from the Finnish forest and IT industries
Kauhanen, Antti - In: British journal of industrial relations : BJIR ; an … 62 (2024) 2, pp. 319-334
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