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Can the Global Forest Sector Survive 11°C Warming?

Favero, Alice; Mendelsohn, Robert; Sohngen, Brent - 2017

It is well known that the forestry sector is sensitive to climate change but most studies have examined impacts only …

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Use of wood fuels from boreal forests will create a biofuel carbon debt with a long payback time

Holtsmark, Bjart - 2010

Owing to the extensive critique of food-crop-based biofuels, attention and hopes have turned toward second-generation wood-based biofuels. An important question is therefore whether wood from boreal forests could serve as a source for biofuels. However, in a typical boreal forest, it takes...

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Faustmann and the Climate

Hoel, Michael; Holtsmark, Bjart; Holtsmark, Katinka - 2012

This paper presents an adjusted Faustmann Rule for optimal harvest of a forest in the presence of a social cost of carbon emissions. A contribution of the paper is to do this within theoretical and numerical frameworks that take account of the dynamics and interactions of the forest's multiple...

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Optimal harvest age considering multiple carbon pools - a comment

Holtsmark, Bjart; Hoel, Michael; Holtsmark, Katinka - 2012

In two recent papers, Asante and Armstrong (2012) and Asante et al. (2011) considered the question of optimal harvest ages. They found that the larger are the initial pools of dead organic matter (DOM) and wood products, the shorter is the optimal rotation period. In this note, it is found that...

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Institutions and forest management: A case study from Swat, Pakistan

Kruseman, Gideon; Pellegrini, Lorenzo - 2008

Deforestation in the North western part of Pakistan is a long standing problem. The Forestry Department, as formal … further reform the Forestry Department, the question is whether organizational reform is the answer. We think there are more …

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REDD in the carbon market: a general equilibrium analysis

Bosello, Francesco; Eboli, Fabio; Parrado, Ramiro; … - 2010

Deforestation is a major source of CO2 emissions, accounting for around 17% of total annual anthropogenic carbon release. While the cost estimates of reducing deforestation rates vary considerably depending on model assumptions, it is widely accepted that emissions reductions from avoided...

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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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Afforestation and timber management compliance strategies in climate policy: A computable general equilibrium analysis

Michetti, Melania; Nunes Rosa, Renato - 2011

This paper analyzes the role of afforestation-reforestation and timber management activities, and their major and secondary economic effects in stabilizing climate during the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. In particular, with a Computable General Equilibrium framework, the ICES...

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Carbon Storage and Bioenergy: Using Forests for Climate Mitigation

Favero, Alice; Mendelsohn, Robert; Sohngen, Brent - 2016

The carbon mitigation literature has separately considered using forests to store carbon and as a source of bioenergy. In this paper, we look at both options to reach a 2°C mitigation target. This paper combines the global forest model, GTM, with the IAM WITCH model to study the optimal use of...

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Rethinking Participatory Forest Management in Tanzania

Sungusia, Eliezeri; Lund, Jens Friis; Hansen, Christian … - 2020

contradict conventional wisdom in forestry, we believe that this report contributes valuable insights to the continued efforts to … further sustainable forestry in Tanzania. We begin by outlining the global ideals of participatory forestry. We then present … before concluding with some general recommendations for improving participatory forestry policy and guidelines. …

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