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Planning on a wider scale : Swedish forest owners' preferences for landscape policy attributes
Bostedt, Göran; Zabel, Astrid; Ekvall, Hans - 2019
A tax-fund system has been proposed to advance Swedish forest conservation. We present a choice experiment with Swedish private forest owners on preferences for attributes of a tax-fund system. Focusing on three aspects: (i) freedom to choose set-asides, (ii) equity issues, and (iii) frequency...
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Deforestation and Forest Land Use-Theory, Facts and Policy Implications
Panda, Bhagirathi - 2013
The social value of forestry in the effective forestry zone in the north eastern region of India is greater than its …
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The Perfect Firestorm : Bringing Forest Service Wildfire Costs Under Control
O'Toole, Randal - 2007
Prodded by a centralized planning and budgeting process, the U.S. Forest Service's expensive, one-size-fits-all approach to wildfire does not fit the extremely diverse 193 million acres of national forests. The agency's program - which consists of spending close to $300 million per year treating...
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Common Property Resource Dependency : Forests and Village Commons
Tewathia, Nidhi - 2017
Forests and village commons have been important sources of supplementary livelihoods and basic necessities for rural households in many parts of the world. Firewood is still the single most important source of rural domestic energy in South Asia, and is still largely gathered, and not bought....
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Instruments for Forest Habitat Connectivity
Wilman, Elizabeth - 2013
In places such as the boreal forest of Northern Alberta, where demands for energy and forest products are growing, it is necessary to balance economic development activities on the land with the environmental services the land can provide. Wildlife habitat for species such as woodland caribou is...
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Insurance Demand against Forest Fire Risk : Empirical Analysis on French Private Forest Owners
Marielle, Brunette - 2011
the expected loss of forestry income, self-insurance, uncertainty characterizing the probability of occurrence of natural …
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On the economics of forest carbon : renewable and carbon neutral but not emission free
Lintunen, Jussi; Uusivuori, Jussi - 2014 - This version: November 26, 2013
First-best optimal forest sector carbon policy is examined. Using a comprehensive forest sector model with a detailed carbon cycle section we show that the renewability and carbon neutrality arguments do not warrant emission free treatment of forest bioenergy. However, under the biomass stock...
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Development and application of a new Forestation Index : global forestation patterns and drivers
Benedek, Zsófia; Fertő, Imre - 2013
Deforestation has long been heavily studied; several proximate and underlying causes behind the global decrease of forest extent have been discussed. However, systematic analyses of positive examples are sparse, even if forestation is happening in almost 70 countries (on approximately 40% of the...
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The passive use value of the mediterranean forest
Otrachshenkoy, Vladimir - 2014
In this study we estimate the passive use value of forest in different ecological zones in the Mediterranean region. We estimate these values for forests using meta-analysis. These estimates are used to reveal the annual monetary values per hectare for each country. The total annual amount of...
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Seeing the Forest for the Treaties - Evolving Debates on CDM Forest and Forestry Project Activities 10 Years After the Kyoto Protocol
Sampaio, Romulo S. R. - 2014
The framework and starting point for analyzing forest and forestry project activities under the clean development …. In delineating the scope of the study, two possible approaches to forests and forestry activities are presented …: accounting with domestically forestry activities; or through jointly project-based activities. The focus lies on the latter …
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