Many of the services supplied by nature are externalities. Economic theory suggests that some form of subsidy or contracting between the beneficiaries and the providers could result in an optimal supply of environmental services. Moreover, if the poor own resources that give them a comparative ad...
Pattanayak, S.K.
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Wunder, Sven
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Ferraro, P.J.
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[Show me the money: do payments supply environmental services in developing countries?]
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Show me the money: do payments supply environmental services in developing countries?
Wunder, Sven
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[Oil wealth and the fate of the forest: linking resource booms, macroeconomics, and the environment]
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Oil wealth and the fate of the forest: linking resource booms, macroeconomics, and the environment
The methods used to value tropical forests have the potential to influence how policy makers and others perceive forest landsforestlands. A small number of valuation studies achieve real impact. These are generally succinct accounts supporting a specific perception. However, such reports risk bei...
Sheil, Douglas
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Wunder, Sven
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[The value of tropical forest to local communities: complications, caveats, and cautions]
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The value of tropical forest to local communities: complications, caveats, and cautions
Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) is considered a signifi cant mitigation opportunity. Forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon has traditionally been highest in the world and, thus, represents a likely target for future REDD initiatives. The paper presents an ex-ante assess...
Borner, J.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Paying for avoided deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: from cost assessment to scheme design]
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Paying for avoided deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: from cost assessment to scheme design
Miombo woodlands cover vast areas of southern Africa. Of comparatively little interest for export-oriented commercial logging, they are part of a complex system of rural land use that integrates woodland management with crops and livestock. There is also evidence that woodland resources are exten...
Dewees, P. A.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Katerere, Y.
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Sitoe, A.
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Cunningham, A.B.
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Angelsen, A.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Managing the Miombo woodlands of Southern Africa: policies, incentives and options for the rural poor]
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Managing the Miombo woodlands of Southern Africa: policies, incentives and options for the rural poor
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...
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
Wunder, Sven
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[Policy options for stabilising the forest frontier: a global perspective]
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Policy options for stabilising the forest frontier: a global perspective