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Economic and Environmental Benefits of Eliminating Log Export Bans; The Case of Costa Rica

Kishor, Nalin M.; Mani, Muthukumara; Constantino, Luis F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

An increasing number of tropical timber producing nations have enacted bans on export of logs. Proponents argue that a log export ban is a second-best policy tool for addressing environmental externalities; it also creates more jobs and improves scale efficiencies domestically. Theoretical...

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The Carbon Cycle and the Value of Canadian Forests.

Dore, M.; Johnston, M. - Department of Economics, Brock University - 1996

This paper is concerned with valuing forests for an important ecological function, namely the ability of forestst ( at …

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Salvatore model with equiproportional preservation of forests

Kohn, Robert - In: Open Economies Review 6 (1995) 1, pp. 63-79

equiproportional protection of temperate forests in the northern hemisphere. The Salvatore version of the Heckscher … their national forests. The extreme assumptions of the Salvatore model are then relaxed and the resulting effects on forest …-growth forests. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1995 …

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Public Open Access and Private Timber Harvests: Theory and Application to the Effects of Trade Liberalization in Mexico

Prestemon, Jeffrey - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 17 (2000) 4, pp. 311-334

forests. A model is presented that allows for forests to be either public or private, and public forests are divided into …

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Theoretical Aspects of Forest Accounting

Vincent, J.R. - Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), … - 1998

Many recent empirical studies have focused on national accounting issues related to forest resources, but none has systematically examined the issues from a theoretical perspective. In this paper, I demonstrate that one should adjust the level of GDP upward for household consumption of nonmarket...

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Reducing Degradation of Forests in Poor Countries When Permanent Solutions Elude Us: What Instruments Do we Really Have?

Bluffstone, R.A. - Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), … - 1997

This paper evaluates policies for addressing forest degradation in developing country hill areas, where agriculture is … the major activity and villagers depend on forests for important economic inputs. Runaway population growth, poverty and …

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The Ecology and Management of Non-Timber Forest Resources.

Peters, C.M. - World Bank Group - 1996

Tropical forests contain an incredible diversity of fruit, nuts, oil seeds, latexes, resins, gums, spices, and …

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What is the Value of Stranding Timber?: Difficulties in Merging Theory with Reality.

Luckert, M.K.; Bernard, J-T. - Groupe de recherche en économie de l'énergie, de … - 1991

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Impact of Newsprint Recycling Policies on Canadian Waste Production and Forests.

Laplante, B.; Lukert, M.K. - Groupe de recherche en économie de l'énergie, de … - 1993

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Valuing Biodiversity in Norwegian Forests: A Contingent Valuation Study with Multiple Bias Testing.

Weisten, K.; Hoen, H.F.; Navrud, S.; Strand, J. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1993

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