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Challenges for sustainable development in Brazilian Amazonia
Fearnside, Philip Martin - In: Sustainable development 26 (2018) 2, pp. 141-149
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The Amazon in the crossfire : review of the special chapter of the UN World Drug Report 2023 on the Amazon Basin
Brombacher, Daniel; Santos, Hector Fabio - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 5 (2023) 1, pp. 13-18
This article reviews the chapter of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) World Drug Report (WDR) 2023 on 'The Nexus Between Drugs and Crimes that Affect the Environment and Convergent Crime in the Amazon Basin'. The WDR 2023 gathers the evidence on the multiple impacts of a...
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A "Delphi exercise" as a tool in Amazon rainforest valuation
Strand, Jon; Carson, Richard T.; Navrud, Stale; … - 2014
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A"Delphi Exercise"As a Tool in Amazon Rainforest Valuation
Strand, Jon - 2017
The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest and most biodiverse, represents a global public good of which 15 percent has already been lost. The worldwide value of preserving the remaining forest is today unknown. A "Delphi" exercise was conducted involving more than 200 environmental valuation...
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A "Delphi Exercise" as a Tool in Amazon Rainforest Valuation
Strand, Jon - 2014
The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest and most biodiverse, represents a global public good of which 15 percent has already been lost. The worldwide value of preserving the remaining forest is today unknown. A "Delphi" exercise was conducted
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246553
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Habitat as Human Rights : Indigenous Huaorani in the Amazon Rainforest, Oil, and Ome Yasuni
Kimerling, Judith - 2016
This Article is based on a presentation to the Vermont Law Review Symposium, "Habitat for Human Rights: Environmental Degradation and Human Rights." It begins by highlighting three general scenarios where environmental and human rights laws intersect, and then examines the experience of...
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The economic and environmental effects of an EU ban on illegal logging imports : insights from a CGE assessment
Bosello, Francesco; Parrado, Ramiro; Rosa, Renato - 2010
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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Deforestation and Emerging Greenhouse Gas Compliance Regimes : Toward a Global Environmental Law of Forests, Carbon, and Climate Governance
Boyd, William - 2012
This chapter reviews the current status of and prospects for efforts to include emissions from deforestation (and … survey. First, in contrast to international climate policy debates during the 1990s and the early 2000s, deforestation has … to bring reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) into climate governance is decidedly …
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The environmental impacts of protected area policy
Reynaert, Mathias; Rodrigues, Eduardo Augusto de Souza; … - 2023
ecosystems. We summarize the state of knowledge about the impacts of protected area policies, with a focus on deforestation and …
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Interactions of Reduced Deforestation and the Carbon Market : The Role of Market Regulations and Future Commitments
Anger, Niels - 2014
Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has been proposed as a potentially inexpensive and …
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