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Mitigation potential and cost in tropical forestry - relative role for agroforestry
Makundi, Willy R.; Sathaye, Jayant A. - 2009
This paper summarizes studies of carbon mitigation potential (MP) and costs of forestry options in seven developing … forestland for other uses such as agriculture and pasture. By using data on estimated carbon sequestration, emission avoidance … and potential area currently engaged in agriculture, but they pose unique challenges for carbon and cost accounting due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436333
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Index of harm: a measure for comparing occupational risk across industries
Solomon, K.A.; Abraham, S.C. - 2008
fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436578
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
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Die Politiken der Gemeinschaft und die Berggebiete : Konferenzbeiträge ; Brüssel 17.-18. Oktober 2002
Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion … - 2003
2002 war das Internationale Jahr der Berge. In diesem Zusammenhang fanden in aller Welt zahlreiche Veranstaltungen statt, um das Verständnis für die Bedeutung der Bergwelt aus historischer, ökologischer, kultureller und wirtschaftlicher Sicht zu verbessern. Ferner sollte nach Wegen gesucht...
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Guidelines resulting from meetings of the VAT Committee up until 13 March 2019
European Commission / VAT Committee - 2019
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Informality, productivity, and enforcement in West Africa: A firm level analysis
Benjamin, Nancy; Mbaye, Aly - 2010
The informal sector accounts for a very large share in African economies, both in terms of GDP and employment. However, most national surveys on the informal sector focus on labor market issues and informal employment rather than the structure of informal businesses. And sample designs are...
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Technology Adoption in West Africa: Adoption and Disadoption of Soybeans on the Togo-Benin Border
Jones, Kelly Michelle - 2005
New agricultural technologies are promoted in developing countries to bring about some combination of economic, environmental, and or health benefit. All of these benefits are considered to improve the livelihoods of the households that adopt them. However, the adoption of these new innovations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431278
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SMALLHOLDER FIRE PREVENTION AND BURNING ACTIVITIES UNDER THE THREAT OF ACCIDENTAL FIRE: A HOUSEHOLD MODEL APPLICATION FROM THE TAPAJÃS NATIONAL FOREST IN THE STATE OF PARÃ, BRAZIL...
Bowman, Maria Susannah - 2007
Land-clearing fires set by settlers in the Brazilian Amazon give rise to large scale wildfires that threaten mature forests, agricultural plantations, and settlement areas. Our purpose is to examine labor devoted to fire prevention (firebreak establishment) and burning for crop production for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433921
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Analysis of Policy Reforms in the New Zealand Forest Manufacturing Sector
Grebner, Donald L. II - 1998
New Zealand experienced dramatic restructuring programsafter the Labor party won the national elections in 1984.Deregulation of price controls, removal of the log exportban, and privatization of public assets were the mainshocks to the forest sector. The purpose of this paper isto analyze the...
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Methods for Quantitatively Describing Tree Crown Profiles of Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.)
Doruska, Paul F. - 1998
Physiological process models, productivity studies, andwildlife abundance studies all require accuraterepresentations of tree crowns. In the past, geometricshapes or flexible mathematical equations approximatinggeometric shapes were used to represent crown profiles.Crown profile of loblolly pine...
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