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Shipping is increasing today along with the sector's emissions of greenhouse gases. The awareness of the emissions has increased the pressure for regulations of the shipping industry. Regulating the…
12 December 2023 | Peer Reviewed | Global HubTraditionally, siting and sizing decisions for parks and reserves reflected ecological characteristics but typically failed to consider ecological costs created from displaced resource collection…
13 November 2012 | Peer Reviewed | TanzaniaForest managers in developing countries enforce extraction restrictions to limit forest degradation. In response, villagers may displace some of their extraction to other forests, which generates…
13 November 2012 | Peer Reviewed | TanzaniaThis study looked into tree-growing behavior of rural households in Ethiopia. With data collected at household and parcel levels from the four major regions of Ethiopia, we analyzed the decision to…
30 December 2011 | EfD Discussion Paper | EthiopiaIncomplete Property Rights, Exposure to Markets and the Provision of Environmental Services in China
This paper uses data from a 2003 rural survey to examine the determinants of household provision of environmental services under China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP), the largest payment for…
25 December 2011 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaState-owned forest enterprises (SOFEs) in northeast China and Inner Mongolia play important roles both in timber production and in the maintenance of ecological security. However, since the late 1970s…
22 December 2011 | EfD Discussion Paper | ChinaInitiatives certifying that producers of goods and services adhere to defined environmental and social-welfare production standards are increasingly popular. According to proponents, these initiatives…
9 November 2011 | Peer Reviewed | Central AmericaDecentralization experiments are currently underway in the Chinese forestry sector. However, researchers and policy makers tend to ignore a key question: what do forest farmers really want from reform…
21 October 2011 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaLand is an essential factor of production. Institutions that govern its efficient use determine the sustainability of this essential resource. In Ethiopia all land is publicly owned. Such an…
4 August 2011 | Peer Reviewed | EthiopiaThe Forest Carbon Partnership Facility has recently proposed the application of strategic environmental social assessment (SESA) for incorporating environmental and social considerations in the…
28 July 2011 | Discussion Paper | Sweden, Kenya