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Kurz zum Klima: REDD+ – Schlägt der Klimaschutz Wurzeln?

Lippelt, Jana - In: ifo Schnelldienst 67 (2014) 04, pp. 50-54

Die Abholzung der weltweiten Wälder ist nach der Verbrennung fossiler Brennstoffe die zweitgrößte anthropogene CO2-Quelle. Maßnahmen der UN, die unter dem Namen »REDD« zusammengefasst werden, sollen der Abholzung entgegenwirken. Der Beitrag beschreibt die Funktionsweise von REDD und gibt...

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Climate Notes on the Development and Future of the World’s Forests

Lippelt, Jana - In: CESifo Forum 17 (2016) 4, pp. 76-78

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Proximate causes of deforestation in the Bolivian lowlands: an analysis of spatial dynamics

Müller, Robert; Müller, Daniel; Schierhorn, Florian; … - In: Regional Environmental Change 12 (2012) 3, pp. 445-459

Forests in lowland Bolivia suffer from severe deforestation caused by different types of agents and land use activities …. We identify three major proximate causes of deforestation. The largest share of deforestation is attributable to the … multinomial logit model to analyze the determinants of each of these proximate causes of deforestation between 1992 and 2004. We …

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Namibian pre-service science teachers' perspectives on environmental issues

Kasanda, Choshi; Zealand, Donovan; Taylor, Neil - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 14 (2014) 1, pp. 21-37

deforestation as the major such issue. They also associated this concern with other problems such as soil erosion, salinity, and …

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Opportunities and challenges to the sustainable development of cattle raising in Brazil, 1970-2005

Reis, Eustaquio - In: EconomiA 18 (2017) 1, pp. 18-39

The paper provides historical and analytical perspectives for the assessment of the challenges and opportunities of cattle raising activities in the transition toward a low-carbon agriculture in Brazil. It is organized as follows. The first section poses the problem. The second presents long run...

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Why forests are important for global poverty alleviation: A spatial explanation

Sunderlin, William D.; Dewi, Sonya; Puntodewo, Atie; … - In: Ecology and Society 13 (2008) 2

Forests have been declared important for the well-being of the poor because of the kinds of goods and services that they provide. We asked whether forests are important for the poor not only because of the kinds of goods and services they provide, but also because they tend to be located where...

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The impact of ICT penetration on deforestation: A panel data evidence

Yılmaz, Rasim; Koyuncu, Cuneyt - In: Review of Economic Perspectives 19 (2019) 4, pp. 345-364

important role in fighting against deforestation, and the penetration of ICT help decrease deforestation in a different part of … world's forests. The aim of this study is to test whether diffusion of ICT contributes to decreasing in deforestation in the … world. For this purpose, the effect of ICT penetration on deforestation is estimated by using bivariate and multivariate …

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Resource frontiers and agglomeration economies: The varied logics of transnational land-based investing in Southern and Eastern Africa

Abeygunawardane, Dilini; Kronenburg García, Angela; … - In: Ambio 51 (2022) 6, pp. 1535-1551

Actor-level data on large-scale commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. The peculiar choice of transnational investing in African land has, therefore, been subject to conjecture. Addressing this gap, we reconstructed the underlying logics of investment location choices in a...

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Corruption, shadow economy and deforestation: Friends or strangers?

Cozma, Adeline-Cristina; Cotoc, Corina-Narcisa; … - In: Risks 9 (2021) 9, pp. 1-21

This study aims to reveal the connection between corruption and shadow economy, on one hand, and deforestation, on the … it reveals that corruption and shadow economy positively influence deforestation. Determinants like democratic governance … countermeasures aimed at reducing the levels of illegal deforestation and sustainably managing the forestland. The importance of this …

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Forest Clearing in Rural Livelihoods: Household-Level Global-Comparative Evidence

Babigumira, Ronnie; Angelsen, Arild; Buis, Maarten; … - In: World Development 64 (2014) Supplement 1, pp. S67-S79

This paper examines the factors that influence rural household decisions to clear forestland. We use a large dataset comprising 7172 households from 24 developing countries. Twenty-seven percent of sampled households had converted forest to agriculture during the previous 12 months, clearing on...

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