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Autor: Angelsen, A.

Four types of policies could reduce deforestation: policies to depress agricultural rent, policies to increase and capture forest rent, policies that directly regulate land use, and cross-sector policies that underpin the first three. While payments for environmental services (PES) have clear adv...


Angelsen, A.[Policy options to reduce deforestation]Policy options to reduce deforestation

This paper explains the ways in which, and the extent to which, public policy measures might be used to reduce inappropriate tropical deforestation.Inappropriate deforestation is a signifanct problem: 1. deforestation generally causes negative externalities that generate cost to society not refle...


Kaimowitz, D.Byron, R.N.Sunderlin, William D.[Public policies to reduce inappropriate tropical deforestation]Public policies to reduce inappropriate tropical deforestation

Forests cover between 17 and 19 million ha of the Central American isthmus. Most of this is broadleaved forest on the Atlantic side of the isthmus. The size and contribution of these forests vary greatly between the Central American countries, from Belize, with over 80% of its land in forests, to...


Kaimowitz, D.Paupitz, J.[Forests, policies and people on the Central American agricultural frontier]Forests, policies and people on the Central American agricultural frontier

This paper applies a spatial economic regression model to analyze the relation between deforestation in the period from 1989 to 1994 and access to roads and markets, ecological conditions, land tenure, and zoning policies in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The data come from a Geographic Information System ...


Kaimowitz, D.Mendez, P.Puntodewo, A.Vanclay, J.K.[Spatial regression analysis of deforestation in Santa Cruz, Bolivia]Spatial regression analysis of deforestation in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Autor: Angelsen, A.

The article first reviews rates and definitions of tropical deforestation and the environmental implications in terms of climate change, biodiversity loss, and reduced supply of forest products. Tropical deforestation and other land use changes contributed about 20% of the global anthropogenic CO...


Angelsen, A.[Deforestation-forestation]Deforestation-forestation
Autor: Kaimowitz, D.

This chapter examines the policy debate related to the links between forests and water in Central America and the approaches that policymakers and others have used to address the perceived problems, with emphasis on the siltation of large reservoirs. It shows how political, institutional, and tec...


Kaimowitz, D.[Useful myths and intractable truths: the politics of the links between forests and water in Central America]Useful myths and intractable truths: the politics of the links between forests and water in Central America

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