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Transgenic Trees: Implementation and Outcomes of the Plant Protection Act

Sedjo, Roger - 2004

The responsibility for protecting U.S. agriculture from pests and diseases is assigned by the Federal Plant Pest Act (FPPA) to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the Department of Agriculture. The Plant Protection Act (Title 7 U.S.C. Sections 7701 et seq.) gives Aphis...

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Do commercial forest plantations reduce pressure on natural forests? Evidence from forest policy reforms in Uganda

Ainembabazi, John Herbert; Angelsen, Arild - In: Forest Policy and Economics 40 (2014) C, pp. 48-56

conservation effectiveness can be enhanced by complementary interventions that change characteristics that reduce forest use, such …

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A review of the spatial economics of non-timber forest product extraction: Implications for policy

Albers, H.J.; Robinson, E.J.Z. - In: Ecological Economics 92 (2013) C, pp. 87-95

support conservation, or REDD protocols. Using the literature review as a lens, we discuss the models' implications for these … policies with particular emphasis on effective conservation spending and leakage. …

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Forest Conservation Performance Rating (fCPR) Report 2: Bad News for the Pan-Tropics and Everybody Else

Wheeler, David; Hammer, Dan; Kraft, Robin - 2013

This paper updates Working Paper 294, “FCPR—Forest Conservation Performance Rating for the Pan-Tropics.” Forest … Conservation Performance Rating (fCPR) is a system of color-coded ratings for tropical forest conservation performance that can be … implemented for local areas, countries, regions, and the entire pan-tropics. The ratings reward tropical forest conservation in …

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Well-being and conservation implication of Forest Rights Act in the protected areas of Odisha, India

Mishra, Brajaraja - In: The Indian economic journal 64 (2016) 1/4, pp. 186-202

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Estimating leakage from forest carbon sequestration programs

Murray, Brian C.; McCarl, Bruce A.; Lee, Heng-Chi - 2003

Leakage from forest carbon sequestrationthe amount of a program's direct carbon benefits undermined by carbon releases elsewheredepends critically on demanders' ability to substitute non-reserved timber for timber targeted by the program. Analytic, econometric, and sector-level optimization...

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On optimal forest management: A bifurcation analysis

Dasgupta, Swagan; Mitra, Tapan - 2010

The paper examines the theory of optimal forest management with a view to describing its transition dynamics. In contrast to the literature's emphasis on long-run behavior of optimally managed forests, we focus on the nature of the optimal policy function, which describes the harvesting and...

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Wage differentials between the formal and the informal sector in urban Bolivia

Mønsted, Trine - 2000

This paper analyses wage differentials between the formal and informal sectors in urban Bolivia using household survey data. As in other studies the wage differential between the formal and the informal sector is found to be quite large. The wage gap is estimated by a human capital model...

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Trade of woody biomass for electricity generation under climate mitigation policy

Favero, Alice; Massetti, Emanuele - 2013

Bio-energy has the potential to be a key mitigation option if combined with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) because it generates electricity and absorbs emissions at the same time. However, biomass is not distributed evenly across the globe, and regions with a potentially high demand...

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North/South contractual design through the REDD+ scheme

Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Poudou, Jean-Christophe; … - 2012

In this paper we aim at theoretically grounding the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation + (REDD+) scheme as a contractual relationship between countries in the light of the theory of incentives. Considering incomplete information about reference levels of deforestation...

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