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dynamics of forest resources and provide an impact assessment of forest policies on China's forestry development over the last …Using the latest forest inventory, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of China's forest sector by focusing on … new forest trends, forest policy changes and challenges to achieve a sustainable forest management. We analyze the …
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the dependency on forest resources in context of India. Poor strata is found to be highly dependent on CPRs. On the …
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This paper deals with private forest owners' insurance demand against forest fire risk. Econometric analysis is … realized on a sample of forest owners from Aquitaine. It allows identifying determinants of participation to insurance from … the expected loss of forestry income, self-insurance, uncertainty characterizing the probability of occurrence of natural …
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While a comprehensive economic valuation of all use and non-use values of the forest is impossible, indigenous … societies seem to have a clear, albeit inchoate idea of the value of the forest on which they depend for their material and …, and then a valuable resource for economic development, and abrogated the customary rights of indigenous forest villagers …
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Human actions can alter the local and regional climate, particularly via land use. We assess the impact of the Great Plains Shelterbelt, a large-scale forestation program in the 1930s which planted 220 million trees across six US Midwestern states. The program led to a regional increase in...
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hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified … where use and non-use values are highest, which includes North America. -- Forest ; Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity …
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hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified …
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The crisis of Greater Darfur region continued for the past eight years with so many postulations of the reasons behind the rebellions and uprisings there. Many voiced their concerns about human sufferings, but all agreed on that reasons focus on less or non-existent development. United Nations'...
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Public trustees at the state, federal, and tribal level are tasked with ensuring that those responsible for destroying or damaging natural resources sufficiently compensate the public for its loss. Those trustees have the fiduciary duty to maintain and restore the natural resources within the...
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The objective of the paper is to analyze the risk management behavior of a non-industrial private forest owner under … practice versus a physical one. We develop a two-period model of hedging and harvesting decisions when the forest owner values … amenity services of forest. We study the properties of optimal current and future harvesting and hedging decisions. We show …
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