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important role in fighting against deforestation, and the penetration of ICT help decrease deforestation in a different part of … world's forests. The aim of this study is to test whether diffusion of ICT contributes to decreasing in deforestation in the … world. For this purpose, the effect of ICT penetration on deforestation is estimated by using bivariate and multivariate …
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Illegal logging is widely recognized as a major economic problem and one of the causes of environmental degradation. Increasing awareness of its negative effects has fostered a wide range of proposals to combat it by major international conservation groups and political organizations. Following...
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conditions it affects deforestation. We use rich forest management unit-level panel data — including information on deforestation … models to identify the effect of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification on deforestation in Mexico, the country with … subgroup effects but are unable to reject the null hypothesis that certification does not affect deforestation. Although these …
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deforestation in Indonesia are complex, and cover various aspects of market failure, inappropriate policy implementation in relation …
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Increasing food demand will most likely be met with agricultural intensification and land clearing, exacerbating environmental consequences associated with food supply. The mechanisms and trade-offs between agriculture and the environment are heterogeneous and not well understood, yet key to...
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REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets. REDD+ has since become multi-objective; the policy focus has changed from payments...
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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'...
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In this paper, we use geospatial data and difference-in-differences models to identify the deforestation effects …
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We study the potential of tropical multi-age multi-species forests for sequestering carbon in response to financial incentives from REDD+. The use of reduced impact logging techniques (RIL) allows a forest owner to apply for carbon credits whereas the use of conventional logging techniques (CL)...
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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 …
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