Avoided Deforestation

Author : Charles Palmer,Stefanie Engel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134063109

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Avoided deforestation can be characterized as the use of financial incentives to reduce rates of deforestation and forest degradation, with much of the focus on forests in tropical countries. While avoided deforestation, as a policy issue, is not new, the current debate in academic and policy circles on including it in future climate change mitigation strategies such as the Clean Development Mechanism is gathering pace – and this debate is only likely to intensify as negotiations continue over what should be included in the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, which is set to expire in 2012. Up until now, however, the debate in terms of the scientific and economic implications of avoided deforestation has not been brought together. This book aims to bring together important research findings in the area along with their policy implications, whilst linking avoided deforestation to political economy as well as to the latest developments in environmental and natural resource economics.

Author : Charles Palmer,Stefanie Engel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134063116

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Avoided Deforestation by Charles Palmer,Stefanie Engel Pdf

Avoided deforestation can be characterized as the use of financial incentives to reduce rates of deforestation and forest degradation, with much of the focus on forests in tropical countries. While avoided deforestation, as a policy issue, is not new, the current debate in academic and policy circles on including it in future climate change mitigation strategies such as the Clean Development Mechanism is gathering pace – and this debate is only likely to intensify as negotiations continue over what should be included in the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, which is set to expire in 2012. Up until now, however, the debate in terms of the scientific and economic implications of avoided deforestation has not been brought together. This book aims to bring together important research findings in the area along with their policy implications, whilst linking avoided deforestation to political economy as well as to the latest developments in environmental and natural resource economics.

Author : Michael I. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136340611

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Redeeming REDD by Michael I. Brown Pdf

It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon. As a result, public and private initiatives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) have been widely endorsed by policy-makers. A key issue is the feasibility of carbon trading or other incentives to encourage land-owners and indigenous people, particularly in developing tropical countries, to conserve forests, rather than to cut them down for agricultural or other development purposes. This book presents a major critique of the aims and policies of REDD as currently structured, particularly in terms of their social feasibility. It is shown how the claims to be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as enhance people's livelihoods and biodiversity conservation are unrealistic. There is a naive assumption that technical or economic fixes are sufficient for success. However, the social and governance aspects of REDD, and its enhanced version known as REDD+, are shown to be implausible. Instead to enhance REDD's prospects, the author provides a roadmap for developing a new social contract that puts people first.

Author : Pablo Pacheco,Laura German,Jan Willem van Gelder,Katinka Weinberger,Manuel Guariguata
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Biomass energy industries
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Avoiding deforestation in the context of biofuel feedstock expansion: An analysis of the effectiveness of market-based instruments by Pablo Pacheco,Laura German,Jan Willem van Gelder,Katinka Weinberger,Manuel Guariguata Pdf

Author : Chris Methmann,Delf Rothe,Benjamin Stephan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135924058

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Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance by Chris Methmann,Delf Rothe,Benjamin Stephan Pdf

Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics. Equipped with a common interpretive tool-kit, the authors examine different issue-areas and excavate the contours of an overall pattern – the depoliticisation of climate governance. It is this concept which represents the overarching theme connecting the different contributions, addressing issues such as how the securitization of climate change conceals its socio-economic roots; how highly political decisions and value-judgements are couched in the terms of science; how the reframing of climate change as a matter of economic calculation and investment narrows the scope of political action; and how the prevailing concentration on technological solutions to climate change turns it into a mere administrative issue to be tackled by experts. Highlighting the depoliticisation of highly political issues provides a means to bring the political back into one of the most important issue areas of 21st century world politics. The editors have assembled a series of 14 interpretive inquiries into discourses of global climate governance which aim to flesh out an interpretive methodology, demonstrating the value it offers to those seeking to achieve a better understanding of global climate governance. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, political theory and climate change.

Author : Maryanne Grieg-Gran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : MINN:31951P010540077

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The Cost of Avoiding Deforestation by Maryanne Grieg-Gran Pdf

Author : The World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781464819094

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A Balancing Act for Brazil's Amazonian States by The World Bank Pdf

Social deprivations coincide with vast deforestation in Brazil's Legal Amazon, or Amazônia. Poverty reduction and sustainable development require renewed efforts to protect the region's exceptional natural wealth, coupled with a shift from an extractive to a productivity-oriented growth model.

Author : Augusto de la Torre,Pablo Fajnzylber,John Nash
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821380819

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Low-carbon Development by Augusto de la Torre,Pablo Fajnzylber,John Nash Pdf

Governments and civil society in Latin America and the Caribbean should be well informed about the potential costs and benefits of combating climate change, their policy options over the next decades, and the global context for these policy decisions. At the same time, the global community needs to be better informed about the unique perspective of the Latin American and Caribbean region: problems the region will face, its potential contributions toward combating global warming, and how to maximize this potential while continuing to maintain growth and reduce poverty. This book, a companion volume to Low Carbon, High Growth: Latin American Responses to Climate Change, seeks to help fill both these needs.

Author : Jessica K. Weir
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781921862564

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Country, Native Title and Ecology by Jessica K. Weir Pdf

Country, native title and ecology all converge in this volume to describe the dynamic intercultural context of land and water management on Indigenous lands. Indigenous people’s relationships with country are discussed from various speaking positions, including identity and knowledge, the homelands debate, water planning, climate change and market environmentalism. The inter-disciplinary chapters range from an ethnographic description of living waters in the Great Sandy Desert, negotiating the eradication of yellow crazy ants in Arnhem Land, and legal analysis of native title rights in emerging carbon markets. A recurrent theme is the contentions over meaning, knowledge, and authority. “Because this volume is scholarly, original and very timely it represents a key resource and reference work for land and sea managers; policy makers; scholars of the interface between post-native title responsibilities, NRM objectives and appropriate heritage protocols; and students based in the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities. It is rare for volumes to have this much cross-academy purchase and for this reason alone – it will have ongoing worth and value as a seminal collection.” – Associate Professor Peter Veth, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University. Dr Jessica Weir has published widely on water, native title and governance, and is the author of Murray River Country: An Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2009). Jessica’s work was recently included in Stephen Pincock’s Best Australian Science Writing 2011. In 2011 Jessica established the AIATSIS Centre for Land and Water Research, in the Indigenous Country and Governance Research Program at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. For more information on Aboriginal History Inc. please visit aboriginalhistory.org.au.

Author : Michael I. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0203123654

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Redeeming REDD by Michael I. Brown Pdf

It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon. As a result, public and private initiatives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) have been widely endorsed by policy-makers. A key issue is the feasibility of carbon trading or other incentives to encourage land-owners and indigenous people, particularly in developing tropical countries, to conserve forests, rather than to cut them down for agricultural or other development purposes. This book presents a major critique of the aims and policies of REDD as currently structured, particularly in terms of their social feasibility. It is shown how the claims to be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as enhance people's livelihoods and biodiversity conservation are unrealistic. There is a naive assumption that technical or economic fixes are sufficient for success. However, the social and governance aspects of REDD, and its enhanced version known as REDD+, are shown to be implausible. Instead to enhance REDD's prospects, the author provides a roadmap for developing a new social contract that puts people first.

Author : Colin A. G. Hunt
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849802109

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Carbon Sinks and Climate Change by Colin A. G. Hunt Pdf

The importance of this book lies in being one of the first comprehensive attempts to summarise major findings in the field of carbon sinks and climate change. . . The book also deals comprehensively with the present and future role of forests in climate change policy and practice. . . This timely book is essential reading for policy decision-makers and foresters alike. Wasantha Athukorala, Economic Analysis and Policy Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are methods of harnessing nature to tackle global warming the greatest challenge facing humankind. In this book, Colin Hunt deals comprehensively with the present and future role of forests in climate change policy and practice. The author provides signposts for the way ahead in climate change policy and offers practical examples of forestry s role in climate change mitigation in both developed and tropical developing countries. Chapters on measuring carbon in plantations, their biodiversity benefits and potential for biofuel production complement the analysis. He also discusses the potential for forestry in climate change policy in the United States and other countries where policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions have been foreshadowed. The author employs scientific and socio-economic analysis and lays bare the complexity of forestry markets. A review of the workings of carbon markets, based both on the Kyoto Protocol and voluntary participation, provides a foundation from which to explore forestry s role. Emphasis is placed on acknowledging how forests idiosyncrasies affect the design of markets for sequestered carbon. The realization of forestry s potential in developed countries depends on the depth of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, together with in-country rules on forestry. An increase in funding for carbon retention in tropical forests is an immediate imperative, but complexities dictate that the sources of finance will likely be dedicated funds rather than carbon markets. This timely and comprehensive book will be of great value to any reader interested in climate change. Policy-makers within international agencies and governments, academics and students in the fields of geography, economics, science policy, forestry, development studies as well as carbon market participants and forest developers in the private sector will find it especially useful.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : 8585994754

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Avoided Deforestation (REDD) and Indigenous Peoples by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan L. Ramseur,Larry Parker
Publisher : The Capitol Net Inc
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781587332128

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Cap and Trade: The Kyoto Protocol, Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions, Carbon Tax, Emission Allowances, Acid Rain SO2 Program, Ozone Transport Commission, NOX, Carbon Markets, and Climate Change by Jonathan L. Ramseur,Larry Parker Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : GEF Evaluation Office
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781933992181

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GEF Annual Impact Report 2007 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas K. Rudel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231558549

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Reforesting the Earth by Thomas K. Rudel Pdf

Forests offer a natural solution to the climate crisis. Conserving and expanding them not only removes carbon from the atmosphere but also protects and fosters biodiversity. Yet the results of elite-driven reforestation initiatives have been disappointing, and in many world regions deforestation continues relentlessly. Thomas K. Rudel examines a wide range of conservation and reforestation efforts to shed new light on the social factors that lead to success. He details effective coalition-building strategies and organizational models that have protected, restored, and expanded forests around the world. Rudel argues that successful reforestation projects bring together diverse groups of people with a stake in the land and a commitment to collective decision making. They give voice to different economic and social interests, including small farmers, Indigenous peoples, loggers, ranchers, government officials, NGO personnel, international donors, and climate activists. These varied coalition members each make commitments to promote forests. Farmers limit the extent of lands under cultivation, governments protect land tenure for smallholders, and wealthy donors make payments for environmental protections. Timely and accessible, Reforesting the Earth offers a guide to scaling up local efforts to sequester carbon and makes a powerful case for a global reforestation movement.