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The paper provides historical and analytical perspectives for the assessment of the challenges and opportunities of cattle raising activities in the transition towards a lowcarbon agriculture in Brazil. It is organized as follows. The next section presents long run historical perspectives on the...
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Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether 'win-win'...
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impact of policy instruments on deforestation and reforestation processes as well as land-use dynamics and sustainability in …
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Since the mid-2000s, a global effort has been made to tackle deforestation and forest degradation in order to reduce … Bolivia, Ghana and Indonesia, three tropical forest countries. Slow progress has been made, but deforestation continues as a … 'deforestation-free products' is needed. In addition, the way forward requires the rights and responsibilities of stakeholders …
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In this paper, we use geospatial data and difference-in-differences models to identify the deforestation effects …
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Keywords: land-use change, farm households, deforestation, meta-analysis, micro-level … countries. This is surprising, since evi-dence hints at high deforestation rates in South-East Asia due to logging activities …
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major driver of deforestation. Much of the forest in Jambi was cleared more than 20 years ago, and rubber was an established … activities, so indirect effects on deforestation are likely. The government's transmigration program of the 1980s and 1990s was …
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The European Union designates 26% of its landmass as a protected area, limiting economic development to favor biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of land for protection and the causal effect of...
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