A principal criterion for classifying a tourism operation as 'ecotourism' is that local residents at the site should receive substantial economic benefits, which serve both to raise local living standards and as enhanced incentives for nature conservation. This paper sets out a methodological fra...
Southgate, D.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Paying for watershed services in Latin America: a review of current initiatives]
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Paying for watershed services in Latin America: a review of current initiatives
Dillaha, T.
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Ferraro, P.
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Huang, M.
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Southgate, D.
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Upadhyaya, S.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Payments for watershed services: regional syntheses]
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Payments for watershed services: regional syntheses
Ilha Grande, an island in the south of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, has faced a long series of historical boom and bust cycles. Yet, during the last century, the island has recuperated most of its original forest cover, compared to rapid and continuous deforestation of the continental Atlantic f...
Wunder, Sven
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[Big island, green forests and backpackers: land use and development options on Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil]
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Big island, green forests and backpackers: land use and development options on Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil
Despite considerable international attention in the field of forest conservation, tropical forests are still disappearing at an unaltered pace. This book gives an economic perspective on the analysis of deforestation. Following a survey of different deforestation definitions, theories and empiric...
This synthesis paper gives an economic perspective on the analysis of deforestation. Ecuador provides a versatile picture of factors affecting forest loss throughout different periods, regions and ecosystems. The main fieldwork was carried out over 18 months in 1994-5 and focused on semi-structur...
This paper explores the "state of the art" of the two-way causal links between poverty alleviation and natural tropical forests. Microimpacts of rising poverty can increase or slow forest loss. At the macrolevel, poverty also has an ambiguous effect, but it is probable that higher income stimulat...
Wunder, Sven
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[Poverty alleviation and tropical forests - what scope for synergies?]
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Poverty alleviation and tropical forests - what scope for synergies?
Multiple-use forest management (MFM) for timber, non-timber forest products and environmental services is envisioned by many as a preferable alternative to timber-dominant management models. It is praised as a more equitable strategy of satisfying the demands from multiple stakeholders, an ecolog...
García Fernandez, C.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Is multiple-use forest management widely implementable in the tropics?]
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Is multiple-use forest management widely implementable in the tropics?
How does an oil boom affect the forest cover of tropical oil exporting-countries? Are they more or less likely than non-oil countries to experience forest loss? What macro-economic linkages and policies are decisive? This article summarises research on land-use changes in eight tropical developin...
Wunder, Sven
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Sunderlin, William D.
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[Oil, macroeconomics, and forests: assessing the linkages]
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Oil, macroeconomics, and forests: assessing the linkages
Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S.
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Kongphan-apirak, M.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Reducing forest emissions in the Amazon Basin: a review of drivers of land-use change and how payments for environmental services (PES) schemes can affect them]
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Reducing forest emissions in the Amazon Basin: a review of drivers of land-use change and how payments for environmental services (PES) schemes can affect them