We evaluated the impacts of the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on rural households' holdings of livestock and forest assets/trees. We found no indication that participation in PSNP…

Climate change has brought issues of deforestation and forest land governance to the forefront. It is now widely accepted that deforestation and must be addressed in order to effectively reduce…

(Submitted to State Forest Administration, PR.China) Abstract: China’s state-owned forest sector has been through and still facing with great challenges for a long period. Since 1986, the State…

Submitted to Australia Centre for International Agricultural Research, (ACIA)) Abstract: This article focuses on the program of Ecological Afforestation on barren lands, degraded arable lands…

Trees have both economic and ecological purposes in rural Ethiopia, supplying households with wood products for consumption and sale, and decreasing soil degradation. The authors used cross-sectional…

This paper uses a 2003 household survey to examine implementation and impacts of China's Sloping Land Conversion Program. We find that land targeting has been strongly influenced by program goals, but…

This paper relates the key findings of the optimal economic enforcement literature to practical issues of enforcing forest and wildlife management access restrictions in developing countries. Our…

To support conservation planning, we ask whether a park's impact on deforestation rates varies with observable land characteristics that planners could use to prioritize sites. Using matching methods…

In this paper, we investigate what the literature has found by analyzing the relationship between trade liberalization and deforestation Our goals are to identify the areas where the literature has…

The dissertation describes the use of contingent valuation to estimate economic value of consumptive Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs), availability, types and uses among rural residents adjacent to…