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Export Tariffs Combined with Public Investments as a Forest Conservation Policy Instrument
Schwerhoff, Gregor; Wehkamp, Johanna - 2017
that it is possible to combine export tariffs with public investments such that deforestation decreases, while agricultural …The forest conservation policy instrument REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is …. This article explores how far export tariffs on agricultural goods combined with public investments, could be used as a …
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Export Tariffs Combined with Public Investments As a Forest Conservation Policy Instrument
Schwerhoff, Gregor - 2017
that it is possible to combine export tariffs with public investments such that deforestation decreases, while agricultural …The forest conservation policy instrument REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is …. This article explores how far export tariffs on agricultural goods combined with public investments, could be used as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959230
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Effects of protected areas on forest cover change and local communities : evidence from the Peruvian Amazon
Miranda, Juan José; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - 2014
Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether 'win-win'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289495
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Logging concessions, certification & protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon : forest impacts from combinations of development rights & land-use restrictions
Rico, Jimena; Panlasigui, Stephanie; Loucks, Colby J.; … - 2018
In this paper, we use geospatial data and difference-in-differences models to identify the deforestation effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894112
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Climate policy integration in a land use system with ecological thresholds
Lopez, Martin - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 19 (2019) 1/49, pp. 113-135
The land use sector is an area with high potential to pursue mitigation and adaptation goals alike. However, due to the complexity derived from managing landscapes with multiple objectives and the lack of tools to assess the outcome, this potential is presumably subtilized in practice. In order...
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An evaluation of protected area policies in the European Union
Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - 2023
The European Union designates 26% of its landmass as a protected area, limiting economic development to favor biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of land for protection and the causal effect of...
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Politics of forests and environmental data : innovation from above, innovation from below, and conflicts over land use and property in Sweden
Alarcón, Cristián - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 78 (2023) 2, pp. 39-52
This paper offers an exploratory analysis of the links between the politics of forest and struggles over environmental data in Sweden. The term politics of data is used to analyse data production orientated to productivity-oriented forestry and the use of digital technologies that allow ordinary...
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The Economics of Tropical Deforestation and Land Use : An Introduction to the Special Issue
Barbier, Edward B. - 2005
This paper both introduces the special issue on the economics of tropical deforestation and land use and conducts a … insights into tropical deforestation and land use, through spatial analysis of locational factors, CGE modeling of policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065835
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A Spatiotemporal Model of Forest Cover Dynamics and Household Land Use Decisions by Subsistence Farmers in Southern Cameroon
Brown, Douglas R. - 2013
permanence of land clearing (deforestation or temporary clearing). Even though subsistence households act independently, their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069239
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Biomass productivity-based mapping of global land degradation hotspots
Le, Quang Bao; Nkonya, Ephraim; Mirzabaev, Alisher - 2014
Land degradation is a global problem affecting negatively the livelihoods and food security of billions of people, especially farmers and pastoralists in the developing countries. Eradicating extreme poverty without adequately addressing land degradation is highly unlikely. Given the importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010378895