Search for dissertations about: "deforestation"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 62 swedish dissertations containing the word deforestation.
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16. To leak or not to leak? : Land‐Use Displacement and Carbon Leakage from Forest Conservation
Abstract : This thesis investigates the question how emissions from land‐use displacement can be assessed and accounted for, using the example of carbon‐leakage accounting in the planned UNFCCC mechanism on ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation’ (REDD). REDD serves here as example of an international forest conservation policy that might be effective locally but could lead to displacement of deforestation to other countries. READ MORE
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17. Essays on Behavioral Economics and Policies for Provision of Ecosystem Services
Abstract : Forests provide key ecosystem services such as clean water, timber, habitat for fisheries, carbon sequestration, pollination, and biodiversity. However, many of these services are being lost or degraded at a furious pace, brought about by human activity. READ MORE
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18. Essays on Behavioral Economics and Policies for Provision of Ecosystem Services
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19. Rural Energy and Afforestation: Case studies from Ethiopia
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20. Environmental effects of economywide policies : case studies of Costa Rica and Sri Lanka
Abstract : Traditional approaches to modeling environmental resources withinsecure or illdefined property rights are based on partial equilibrium models. This dissertation takes the view that since insecure tenure arrangements may be difficult to remedy, effects of national and sectoral policies should be analyzed in a general equilibrium framework in order to take unintended side effects on the the utilization of environmental resources into account. READ MORE