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January 1, 2024
National and international efforts to reduce loss of tropical forests, while having some impacts, have largely failed to substantially slow the rates of loss from deforestation and forest degradation that reduce species habitat while accounting for 12–17% ...
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January 1, 2016
Rationing is pervasive in transition economies and in many developing countries. This paper contrasts the welfare costs of two forms of rationing: with and without license transferability among license holders. In the latter case, for a given level of rati ...
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January 1, 2013
National and international efforts to reduce loss of tropical forests, while having some impacts, have largely failed to substantially slow the rates of loss from deforestation and forest degradation that reduce species habitat while accounting for 12-17% ...
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January 1, 2013
A central goal for those who would like to see additional and improved policy for TDFs is to nd ways in which relevant private actors will take these societal values into consideration. This is a big challenge. At the national level, policy makers themselv ...
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January 1, 2012
By now, these programmes have been implemented in many countries of the Latin American region (e.g. Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia). But Costa Rica was one of the first developing countries to implement this policy nationwide, recognizing legally that forest ...
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January 1, 2009
This chapter addresses two broad classes of models frequently used in the land use/land cover change (LULCC) literature, namely, econometric and dynamic simulation approaches. We discuss both in light of analyses of LULCC in the Amazon, highlighting contri ...
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January 1, 2007
Introduction Ongoing decreases in the stock of tropical forest have long been a major concern, due to their implications for biodiversity loss and provision of ecosystem services. Ecological research also provides evidence that even if the stock is held co ...
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