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. The aim of this paper is to consider the potential poverty-trap implications of this use. If the capacity of the resource … introduction of a cooperative insurance mechanism may sustain an equilibrium outside the poverty trap and relax pressure on the … resource. Moreover, private insurance schemes could also be potential solution to this poverty trap …
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Motivated by the conclusions from various modelling studies, modifications to the bioenergy sector regulations are under way in Europe and in the USA to account for emissions from indirect land-use change (ILUC). Despite their influence on the policy-making, evaluations of the capacity of...
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This paper suggests a holistic framework for assessment and improvement of management strategies for conservation of natural resources in agriculture. First, it incorporates an interdisciplinary approach (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Ecology, Technology, Behavioral and...
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evaluation tools. In doing so, we unify the theory of normal backwardation with theory of storage, macroeconomic general …
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Poorly developed countries with weak institutions often face severe commitment problems. International investors are reluctant to invest in these countries because their property rights are insufficiently protected. We argue that in order to overcome the commitment problem countries may subject...
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Customary rules governing access to land and other natural resources in village societies have characteristics that allow them to fulfil social security functions and achieve equity objectives. This is true of both common-property resources and land parcels held under individualized tenure....
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We propose a framework with endogenous allocation of land between agricultural production, sustainable forest management, and unsustainable forest exploitation in the form of illegal logging to explore deforestation and agricultural and timber supplies when property rights are insecure....
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conservation and human capital investments, we find that tenure security and poverty have statistically significant and opposite … security may lower the adverse consequences of poverty on soil conservation, and vice-versa. Thus, by substituting for private …
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We propose a framework with endogenous allocation of land between agricultural production, sustainable forest management, and unsustainable forest exploitation in the form of illegal logging to explore deforestation and agricultural and timber supplies when property rights are insecure....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319468
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