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Population Growth and Forest Sustainability in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Jingwa, Brian - 2011

Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...

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Deforestation and Welfare: Evidence from Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...

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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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Evaluation der Charta für Holz 2.0: Methodische Grundlagen und Evaluationskonzept

Purkus, Alexandra; Lüdtke, Jan; Becher, Georg; Dieter, … - 2019

The Charter for Wood 2.0 (CfW 2.0) aims to increase the contribution of forestry and forest-based industries to climate … change mitigation; maintain and improve value creation and competitiveness of the forestry and wood cluster; and conserve …

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Should Faustmann forecast climate change?

Gars, Johan; Spiro, Daniel - 2019

” being fully rational has traction in forestry. …

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China's recent growth and its impact on the New Zealand economy

Bowman, Scott; Conway, Patrick - 2013

China has generally not come at the expense of lower export volumes to other markets. Since 2001, dairy and forestry exports … the main driver of increased dairy and forestry production recently and they have also outperformed the rest of the … economy. Since 2008, the dairy and forestry industries have contributed 2.1 percentage points to real production GDP growth …

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The Outlook for China's Growth and its Impact on New Zealand Exports

Bowman, Scott; Conway, Patrick - 2013

The People's Republic of China has become increasingly important to the New Zealand economy since the start of economic liberalisation in China more than 30 years ago, particularly in the past decade. This paper is the second of three looking at the impact of China on the New Zealand economy....

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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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Erfolgsfaktoren für die Beteiligung forstlicher Akteure an der integrierten ländlichen Entwicklung: Das Beispiel LEADER+ Programm der EU-Strukturpolitik

Ortner, Maximilian - 2008

forestry can successfully participate in this development. Forest model projects for drinking water, wood mobilization … of acts of the forestry practice in the context of integrated rural development. The examples are based on the state …

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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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