Tropical deforestation
Assessing Tropical Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in the Cross River Rainforest of Nigeria
... The Cross River Rainforest of South Eastern Nigeria is one of Africa’s last re- maining areas of pristine tropical high forest, extremely rich in a wide variety of flora and fauna species, and is among the twenty ...
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TROPICAL DEFORESTATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM BRAZIL
... of tropical forests is defined as the conversion of forested land to non-forested, mainly agricultural land, or the reduction of forest cover within a ...Globally, deforestation continues at an alarming ...
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Governing tropical deforestation from beyond the tropics? Limitations and possibilities
... The original GATT text is still in effect, subject to modifications GHGs: Greenhouse gas emissions GM: Genetically-modified used in relation to soya GPA: the Agreement on Government Proc[r] ...
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The extent and causes of illegal logging: an analysis of a major cause of tropical deforestation in Indonesia
... Illegal logging is the most direct threat to Indonesia’s remaining tropical forests. There is clear evidence that illegal and corrupt forestry activities have a range of negative and frequently interlinked, ...
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Paving the road for forest destruction : key actors and driving forces of tropical deforestation in Brazil, Ecuador and Cameroon
... Introductory facts and figures about logging in Cameroon 136 The activities of logging companies in the forest 139 The Asian logging companies, emergent actors 140 Cameroon's forest poli[r] ...
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Sensitivity of Amazon Regional Climate to Deforestation
... In this context, the results suggest that the juxtaposition of deforested and fo- rested areas, which differ greatly in their physical properties, can promote con- ditions to increased precipitation via a “vegetation ...
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Deforestation and Seigniorage in Developing Countries: A Tradeoff?
... of deforestation, are responsible for about 25% anthropogenic CO2 emissions (Denman et ...by tropical deforestation is about 15 to 35% of annual fossil fuel emissions during the 1990s, and Van der ...
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Deforestation and its effect on Landslides
... 60% deforestation is concludes for making roads, buildings, houses, and using up of agricultural resources for various ...of deforestation contributing around 60% of total tropical ...of ...
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Deforestation and avian infectious diseases
... scale deforestation on disease emergence. The global rate of tropical deforestation appears to be increasing readily; between 2000 and 2005, more than ...the tropical humid forests were ...
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Langner, Andreas (2009): Monitoring Tropical Forest Degradation and Deforestation in Borneo, Southeast Asia. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... size, tropical forests are severely threatened by ...elevated deforestation rates of the tropics have severe impact on the global climate as approximately 20% of the total human-induced greenhouse gas ...
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Researching Illegal Logging and Deforestation
... Tropical deforestation such as in the Amazon can be studied well from a green criminological ...of tropical deforestation, which often is ...why tropical deforestation correlates ...
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Deforestation in Ethiopia: Causes, Impacts and Remedy
... the tropical deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in developing countries has emerged as new potential to complement ongoing climate ...from deforestation and forest degradation ...and ...
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Land inequality and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
... and deforestation in the Brazilian ...on deforestation through its interaction with credit and land reform policies, it can be shown that the pattern of land distribution, indeed, plays a role for ...and ...
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Deforestation and multinational companies: a conceptual note
... The fact that MNCs possess clean technologies that can enhance environmental sustainability puts a doubt on whether MNC s’ technology is safe for host developing countries (Abdul-Gafaru, 2006). MNCs usually have a ...
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Deforestation and welfare : evidence from Africa
... Borrowing from Beck et al.(2003) we employ an Instrumental Variables(IV) estimation technique. As we have pointed-out earlier, the paper requires an estimation technique that addresses the concern for endogeneity. IV ...
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Energy Aware Deforestation Monitoring System
... and deforestation leads to a fraction of the annual worldwide induced emission of greenhouse gases, which causes biodiversity losses and the of people's ...of deforestation factors such as Forest Fire, ...
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The causes, consequences and remedies of deforestation in Ethiopia
... Among developing countries, especially in Africa, Ethiopia is exceptionally rich in history, as well as cultural and biological diversity. It is home to one of the earliest ancestors of the human species, around 80 ...
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An overview of theoretical and empirical studies on deforestation
... from deforestation and forest ...reducing deforestation, REDD+ is a proposed economic mechanism to compensate landholder to conserve their forest or to incentivize them to reforest their ...avoid ...
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Women Parliamentarians and Deforestation Around The World
... The main findings of our study are reported in Table 2. Column 1 reflects the coefficient estimates for a simple linear regression model using the share of women in parliament as the independent variable. As expected, ...
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Oil palm and deforestation in Papua New Guinea
... to deforestation in Papua New Guinea ...remaining tropical forest areas, with huge and unique biological and cultural ...of deforestation in PNG has been subsistence agriculture and the main cause of ...
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