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Financial Contracts and the Management of Carbon Emissions in Small Scale Plantation Forests

Coleman, Andrew - 2013

total returns from forestry investments to be increased with minimal risk. The carbon units can be lent to industrial firms …

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Community Forestry Enterprises as Entrepreneurial Firms : Economic and Institutional Perspectives from Mexico

Antinori, Camille - 2013

Few examples exist in the common property literature of community-managed forestry enterprises (CFEs) operating in … forestry policy option. CFEs have unusual institutional features that force a reconsideration of theories of the firm, unique …

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Determinants of Forestry Investment and Extent of Forestry Expansion by Smallholders in New Zealand

Dhakal, Bhubaneswor - 2012

While there has been a large increase in investment in plantation forestry in New Zealand by smallholders during the … only a portion of their potentially planted land for forestry. To understand why this is the case this paper studies two … proportion of land used in forestry by smallholders who have identified that who have potentially plantable land. Land used in …

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Fuelwood Consumption, Restrictions about Resource Availability and Public Policies : Impacts on the French Forest Sector

Caurla, Sylvain - 2009

In the context of climate change and of increasing energy prices, the share of fuelwood in primary energy consumption may increase, especially in countries with large forest endowments. However, larger fuelwood consumption may have non-negligible impacts on forest sectors. This paper assesses...

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Forest and Floods Mitigation : Evidence from China

Tembata, Kaori - 2020

Combining a popular flood disaster dataset with climate data and satellite land cover data from China, this paper estimates how forests mitigate the frequency of flooding, resulting in two major findings. First, we confirm that an increase in forest area mitigates the possibility of flood...

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Land Cover Change in Mixed Agroforestry : Shade Coffee in El Salvador

Blackman, Allen - 2008

Little is known about land cover change in mixed agroforestry systems, which often supply valuable ecological services. We use a spatial regression model to analyze clearing in El Salvador's shade coffee-growing regions during the 1990s. Our findings buttress previous research suggesting the...

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The Role of Customary Knowledge in Contemporary Forestry : Experiences from the Kajang Customary Community in Indonesia

Murdiati, Caritas - 2017

Objective – This article analyses the co-existence of customary forest knowledge and management with contemporary forest policies, management, and the prevailing legal/regulatory framework. In addition, this article explores the extent to which customary forest knowledge and management have...

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Is Collective Titling Enough to Protect Forests? Evidence from Afro-Descendant Communities in the Colombian Pacific Region

Velez, Maria Alejandra - 2019

During the mid-1990s, one of the most ambitious land reforms in recent decades took place in Colombia. The reform recognized collective land rights of 5 million hectares by Afro-Colombian groups, with the dual goals of improving livelihoods and preserving valuable ecosystems. We estimate the...

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Community-Managed Forests and Household Welfare : Empirical Evidence from Nepal

Paudel, Jayash - 2018

This paper evaluates the role of use of community-managed forests as a means of improving economic well-being of rural Nepalese households. It utilizes a nationwide survey consisting of detailed questionnaires related to household welfare and employs instrumental variable (IV) approach to...

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Incorporating Fire Risk into Optimal Decisions in Forestry Using a No-Arbitrage Approach

Insley, Margaret C. - 2018

This paper investigates the impact of including the risk of fire in an optimal tree harvesting model at the stand level, assuming timber prices follow a mean-reverting stochastic process. The relevant partial differential equation is derived under different assumptions about hedging the risk of...

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