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Reputation, Policy Risk, and Land UseSince 1999, China has spent RMB 50 billion (about US$7 billion) to implement the ‘Grain for Green’ programme, the largest land retirement programme in the developing world. From 1999 to 2003, over 7.2 million hectares of agricultural land were...
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Opportunities and Conditions for Successful Foreign Aid to the Forestry SectorPart of Book Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability
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Implementing EU renewable energy policy at the subnational levelThe European Union (EU) has set targets for gradually reducing greenhouse gas emissions through 2050. One of the instruments involved is the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive, which specifies a 20 per cent renewable energy target for the EU by 2020...
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The Evolution, Paradigm Shift and Guidelines for Foreign Aid in ForestryPart of Book Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability
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Managing Renewable Natural Capital in AfricaThere is a growing evidence suggesting that the ecological degradation in Africa is accelerating faster than the region's economic decline. More seriously, trees in Sub-Saharan Africa are being felled 30 times as fast as they are being replaced...
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South-North Challenges in Global ForestrySeveral types of transitions are operating in global forestry in the late twentieth century. These include the forest-management transition and the forest-area transition, as well as shifts in forest perceptions and forestry paradigms. A trend...
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Forest Transitions and Carbon FluxesForests as stocks, sinks and sources of carbon have become a vital issue in global politics, along with the Kyoto Protocol of the Framework Convention on Climate Change. This publication, encompassing nine chapters by twelve authors from six...
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Natural Resources and Economic GrowthThe paper begins by offering a quick glance of the Nordic economies and of some aspects of their economic growth performance and natural resource dependence since 1970. Thereafter, it reviews some of the main symptoms of the Dutch disease, and then...
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Group Functioning and Community Forestry in South AsiaThis paper examines group functioning in the management of common pool resources, such as forests. In recent years community forestry groups have mushroomed in South Asia. But how participative, equitable and efficient are they? Many have done well...
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Tree Plantations in the Philippines and ThailandThe area of forest plantations in the tropics has increased for many reasons, but not the least as a result of natural forest depletion. Although forest plantations cannot qualitatively substitute the timber grown in natural forests, their importance...
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The governance of global value chains, the state, and small businessesWe use the case of the timber industry in Myanmar to analyse how national regulatory frameworks and international ecological discourses affect forest management and small businesses. The state plays two roles in the timber industry in Myanmar: it is...
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Enhancing the livelihoods of marginalized indigenous women through customary forests in Bali, IndonesiaThis study examines how, why, and under what conditions marginalized women of customary communities can contribute and gain access to the benefits of the social forestry programme. We found that customary communities’ dependence on forest resources...
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Forest Management, Gender, and Food Security of the Rural Poor in AfricaThis paper addresses the economic impact of forest management on gender and food security of rural poor in Africa. The analyses reveal that deforestation places major demands on women and children’s time, limiting their opportunities to obtain an...
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Ethnic disparity in altruism towards reforestationThis paper presents a framed field experiment on ecological altruism in Mindoro, Philippines. Behavioural differences between ethnic groups in Mindoro—the Tagalogs and the Mangyans—were investigated. We designed a two-part donation task (i.e...
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Who Will Save the Forests?Conflicts over the management of forest resources are examined, comparing situations in India, Finland and the USA. The examples illustrate how the interrelationships between people and their environment differ depending on the knowledge systems of...
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