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A Political Ecology of Latin American Forests Through Time

Hufty, Marc - 2013

Despite the establishment of conservation mechanisms and indigenous lands, Latin America has lost 10% of its forests in 20 years from 1990 to 2010. All of its great forest ecoregions are threatened: the Amazon, the Cerrado, the Gran Chaco, the Yungas, and the Meso-American Corridor. The purpose...

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Forest Fires in Italy : An Econometric Analysis of Major Driving Factors

Michetti, Melania; Pinar, Mehmet - 2013

Despite the relevant fire risk to which Italy is subject from the north to the south, very few analyses focus on this topic. This article investigates the causes of forest fires frequency and intensity in Italy during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The dynamical aspects of fire...

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Economics of Multifunctional Forestry in the Sámi People Homeland Region

Parkatti, Vesa-Pekka; Tahvonen, Olli - 2020

We study forestry in the Sámi people homeland region to understand an ongoing conflict between conventional forest … husbandry, and a flexible optimization between rotation forestry (cf. clearcuts) and forestry that maintains continuous … forestcover. We show that the profitability of conventional forestry is based on utilizing existing forest stands, an outcome that …

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On Some Aspects of the Decision to Conserve or Harvest Old Growth Forest

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2008

In contemporary times, a considerable amount of concern has been expressed about the diminution in the USA's old growth forests. There is general agreement among scholars that old growth forests provide amenity services and timber, and that forest harvesting decisions are fundamentally...

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Amenities and Risk in Forest Management

Couture, Stephane; Marielle, Brunette; Langlais, Eric - 2011

The objective of the paper is to analyze the risk management behavior of a non-industrial private forest owner under uncertainty about the timber production. Two types of hedging strategies with harvesting decisions are studied: a financial practice versus a physical one. We develop a two-period...

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Does Forest Certification in Developing Countries Have Environmental Benefits? Insights from Mexican Corrective Action Requests

Blackman, Allen; Raimondi, Alicia; Cubbage, Fred - 2014

forestry in developing countries. One implication is that policymakers using FSC certification to generate environmental … and legal institutions needed for sustainable forestry …

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An Anatomy of State Failures in the Forest Management in Pakistan

Hasan, Lubna - 2009

Deforestation remains one of the most intractable environmental problems of today. Pakistan also faces serious problem of depletion of its forest reserves. The general perception among planners is that over population is the primary culprit behind forest degradation. Moreover, people living...

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Designing REDD Schemes When Forest Users Are Not Forest Landowners : Evidence from a Survey-Based Experiment in Kenya

Veronesi, Marcella; Schloendorn, Tim; Zabel, Astrid; … - 2015

This study contributes to the debate on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD ) and the relationship between land tenure and forest conservation. We investigate policies that create alternative livelihood options for people around REDD forests who are forest users...

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The Effect on Forestation of the Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China

Xie, Lunyu; Berck, Peter; Xu, Jintao - 2012

Aiming to alleviate rural poverty, stimulate investment in forests, and improve forest conservation, the Chinese government set forth a policy leading to small private holdings of previously village administered forest lands. Using data collected from 288 villages in eight provinces in three...

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A Ricardian Model of Forestry

Faggian, Silvia - 2015

This paper provides a continuous-time "Ricardian" model of forestry, where, in response to an increase in timber demand …

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