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Legal frameworks for REDD : design and implementation at the National level
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ISBN: 9782831712116 2831712114 Year: 2009 Publisher: Gland: IUCN,

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A computable general equilibrium model for environment policy analysis : the case of deforestation in the Philippines
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ISBN: 1617281174 9781617281174 9781606922507 1606922505 Year: 2009 Publisher: Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers,

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Forest land conversion, ecosystem services, and economic issues for policy : a review
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Year: 2009 Publisher: Portland, OR : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station,


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Forest land conversion, ecosystem services, and economic issues for policy : a review
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Year: 2009 Publisher: Portland, OR : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station,

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Diversité des politiques de développement durable : temporalités et durabilités en conflit à Madagascar, au Mali et au Mexique
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ISBN: 9782811102685 281110268X Year: 2009 Publisher: Paris : Karthala,


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Forest pattern and ecological process : a synthesis of 25 years of research
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ISBN: 1283155583 9786613155580 0643098305 9780643098305 9781283155588 9780643096608 0643096604 0643100008 Year: 2009 Publisher: Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub.,

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A major synthesis of 25 years of intensive research about the montane ash forests of Victoria.


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A Polycentric Approach for Coping With Climate Change
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Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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This paper proposes an alternative approach to addressing the complex problems of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The author, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, argues that single policies adopted only at a global scale are unlikely to generate sufficient trust among citizens and firms so that collective action can take place in a comprehensive and transparent manner that will effectively reduce global warming. Furthermore, simply recommending a single governmental unit to solve global collective action problems is inherently weak because of free-rider problems. For example, the Carbon Development Mechanism (CDM) can be 'gamed' in ways that hike up prices of natural resources and in some cases can lead to further natural resource exploitation. Some flaws are also noticeable in the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) program. Both the CDM and REDD are vulnerable to the free-rider problem. As an alternative, the paper proposes a polycentric approach at various levels with active oversight of local, regional, and national stakeholders. Efforts to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions are a classic collective action problem that is best addressed at multiple scales and levels. Given the slowness and conflict involved in achieving a global solution to climate change, recognizing the potential for building a more effective way of reducing green house gas emissions at multiple levels is an important step forward. A polycentric approach has the main advantage of encouraging experimental efforts at multiple levels, leading to the development of methods for assessing the benefits and costs of particular strategies adopted in one type of ecosystem and compared to results obtained in other ecosystems. Building a strong commitment to find ways of reducing individual emissions is an important element for coping with this problem, and having others also take responsibility can be more effectively undertaken in small- to medium-scale governance units that are linked together through information networks and monitoring at all levels. This paper was prepared as a background paper for the 2010 World Development Report on Climate Change.


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Why Governments Tax or Subsidize Trade : Evidence from Agriculture.
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Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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This paper empirically explores the political-economic determinants of why governments choose to tax or subsidize trade in agriculture. The authors use a new data set on nominal rates of assistance (NRA) across a number of commodities spanning the last five decades for 64 countries. NRAs measure the effect on domestic (relative to world) price of the quantitative and price-based instruments used to regulate agricultural markets. The data set admits consideration of both taxes and subsidies on exports and imports. The authors find that both economic and political variables play important roles in determining the within-variation in the NRA data. Based on results the authors offer a number of data-driven exploratory hypotheses that can inform future theoretical and empirical research on why governments choose to tax or subsidize agricultural products an important policy question that is also one of the least understood by scholars.

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