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Deforestation has long been heavily studied; several proximate and underlying causes behind the global decrease of … substitution of measures. Several traditional factors, which are important in deforestation (such as corruption, economic freedom …
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Economic growth can affect land use change to release or sequester carbon, intensifying or mitigating the impact of other carbon emissions, and the functional form of that relationship is important to crafting policy responses. Data on land use and land cover change (LULCC) for 14 countries...
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ecosystems. We summarize the state of knowledge about the impacts of protected area policies, with a focus on deforestation and …
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Illegal logging is widely recognized as a major economic problem and one of the causes of environmental degradation. Increasing awareness of its negative effects has fostered a wide range of proposals to combat it by major international conservation groups and political organizations. Following...
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Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has been proposed as a potentially inexpensive and …
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This paper provides an analysis of the international political dynamics around the reduction of tropical deforestation … international cooperation to combat tropical deforestation, the paper focuses principally on the United Nations Framework Convention … from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and the Role of Conservation, Sustainable Management of Forests and Enhancement …
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Discussions over tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at … national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from Deforestation …-energy-economy model with alternative cost estimates for reducing deforestation emissions in order to examine a global program for …
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This paper quantitatively assesses the economic implications of crediting carbon abatement from reduced deforestation … partial equilibrium model of the forestry sector. We find that integrating avoided deforestation in international emissions … from exporting carbon-offset credits to the industrialized world. Moreover, reduced deforestation can increase …
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