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Leveraging global climate finance for sustainable forests : opportunities and conditions for successful foreign aid to the forestry sector
Pascual, Unai; Garmendia, Eneko; Phelps, Jacob; Ojea, Elena - 2013
through foreign aid mechanisms towards Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). This paper … addresses key questions regarding the potential of REDD+ to support sustainable forest management in the context of complex …. -- sustainable forest management ; foreign aid ; official development assistance ; climate change finance ; REDD+ ; forestry sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746383
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Population growth and forest sustainability in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Jingwa, Brian A. - 2011
Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410348
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Sustained Development of Land Resources : A Policy Model for Sudan
Abdelgalil, Eisa - 2015
The paper develops a model that shares common features with the computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. It is used to address two questions. First, what are the future prospects of a green gross domestic product (GDP), should we be concerned for resource degradation or not, and to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015868
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The Value of Forest : An Ecological Economic Examination of Forest People's Perspective
Deb, Debal - 2014
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 cultural existence. Forests were valued in all ancient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057842
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Environmental Safeguard and Sustainable Development : An Insight into Payments for Ecosystem Services
Belluomini, Dario - 2016
This paper presents a thorough reflection on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs, which may be viewed as the most innovative tools of the ‘environmental policy toolkit'. These are incentive-based mechanisms, compensating landowners to manage the natural resources under their control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990978
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Do Sustainable Forest Managements Affect Forest Conservation?
Yamamoto, Yuki - 2018
This study examined the effect of sustainable forest management schemes on forest conservation using remote sensing data on forest change. We applied fixed effect models focusing on two major sustainable forest management schemes: the Forest Stewardship Council and the Programme for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917245
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Population Growth and Forest Sustainability in Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032599
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A low GHG development pathway design framework for agriculture, forestry and land use
Svensson, Johannes; Waisman, Henri; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; … - In: Energy strategy reviews 37 (2021), pp. 1-14
Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) represent 22% of global greenhouse gas emissions. To meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement, the AFOLU sector greenhouse gases must be dramatically reduced and eventually transformed to net negative CO2e within this century. The...
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Sustainable Development Goals in Europe and Their Intersection with the Business & Human Rights Framework
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2020
The state of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the European Union (EU) in the context of the EU framework governing business and human rights (B&HR) is worthy of consideration. This chapter follows the top-down approach: it explores the relevant EU legal and policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828807
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Enhancing Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Finland
Vourc'h, Ann - 2000
This document examines Finland’s policy on natural and environmental resource management. In many fields, progress has been made and pollution curbed. However, there is still room for improvement with regard to cost-effectiveness. Economic evaluation of the measures planned in various fields...
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