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Population growth and forest sustainability in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Jingwa, Brian A. - 2011

Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...

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Insurance Demand against Forest Fire Risk : Empirical Analysis on French Private Forest Owners

Marielle, Brunette - 2011

the expected loss of forestry income, self-insurance, uncertainty characterizing the probability of occurrence of natural …

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Forest and Floods Mitigation : Evidence from China

Tembata, Kaori - 2020

Combining a popular flood disaster dataset with climate data and satellite land cover data from China, this paper estimates how forests mitigate the frequency of flooding, resulting in two major findings. First, we confirm that an increase in forest area mitigates the possibility of flood...

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The Role of Customary Knowledge in Contemporary Forestry : Experiences from the Kajang Customary Community in Indonesia

Murdiati, Caritas - 2017

Objective – This article analyses the co-existence of customary forest knowledge and management with contemporary forest policies, management, and the prevailing legal/regulatory framework. In addition, this article explores the extent to which customary forest knowledge and management have...

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The Value of Forest : An Ecological Economic Examination of Forest People's Perspective

Deb, Debal - 2014

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 cultural existence. Forests were valued in all ancient...

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Does Eco-Certification Stem Tropical Deforestation? Forest Stewardship Council Certification in Mexico

Blackman, Allen - 2015

Since its creation more than two decades ago as a voluntary market-based approach to improving forest management, forest certification has proliferated rapidly in developing countries. Yet we know little about whether and under what conditions it affects deforestation. We use rich forest...

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Pricing Forest Carbon : Implications of Asymmetry in Climate Policy

Eriksson, Mathilda - 2016

In this paper, we use an integrated assessment model to examine the implications of not recognizing, and partially recognizing forest carbon in climate policy. Specifically, we investigate the impact of an asymmetric carbon policy that recognizes emissions from fossil fuels while ignoring...

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Do Sustainable Forest Managements Affect Forest Conservation?

Yamamoto, Yuki - 2018

This study examined the effect of sustainable forest management schemes on forest conservation using remote sensing data on forest change. We applied fixed effect models focusing on two major sustainable forest management schemes: the Forest Stewardship Council and the Programme for the...

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Seeing the Forest for the Treaties - Evolving Debates on CDM Forest and Forestry Project Activities 10 Years After the Kyoto Protocol

Sampaio, Romulo S. R. - 2014

The framework and starting point for analyzing forest and forestry project activities under the clean development …. In delineating the scope of the study, two possible approaches to forests and forestry activities are presented …: accounting with domestically forestry activities; or through jointly project-based activities. The focus lies on the latter …

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Optimal Location of New Forests in a Suburban Region

Moons, Ellen - 2014

This paper looks at the optimal location of new forests in a suburban region under area constraints. The GIS-based methodology takes into account use benefits such as timber, hunting, carbon sequestration and recreation, non-use benefits (both bequest and existence values), opportunity costs of...

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