Decentralized Forest Management: Experimental and Quasi-experimental Evidence
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Developing country forests sustain livelihoods, help to control flooding, recharge aquifers, pollinate crops, cycle nutrients, harbor biodiversity, and sequester carbon. As a result, forest loss and degradation have serious environmental and socioeconomic consequences. Decentralization and devolution of governance have arguably been the most important policy trend affecting developing countries’ forests over the past three decades.
The value of forest water purification ecosystem services in Costa Rica
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• Avoiding 1% of catchment's forest loss reduces chemicals use by 0.026% in Costa Rica.
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• Improving the turbidity by 1% decreases 0.005% aluminum sulfate needed at the water plants.
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• The value of water purification service by forests is USD 9.5 per hectare per year.
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• The contribution of forest (per ha) becomes larger as the size of the catchment decreases.
Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in Africa
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Forr a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks. Countries dependent on oil, gas, and mining have tended to have weaker long-run growth, higher rates of poverty, and greater income inequality than less resource-abundant economies. For these resource producing economies relative prices make it more difficult to diversify into activities outside of the resource sector, limiting structural change.
Renewable electricity and sustainable development goals in the EU
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Renewable energy (RE) has a strong synergy with some of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), thus its successful deployment can potentially result in an impact on these SDGs. In this study, we examine the synergy effect of renewable electricity on selected SDGs via the electricity prices for the European Union (EU) countries. Using panel data and a two-step estimation approach, our findings indicate a strong synergy effect between renewable electricity prices, SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy) and SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth).
Oil revenues and economic growth in oil-producing countries: The role of domestic financial markets
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The study estimates the effects of oil revenues on economic growth through financial markets development channel. Using a Panel VAR framework, we determine the proportional contribution of government oil revenue investment and private oil revenue investment among a sample of 83 oil-producing countries during the period, 1990–2015. Also, a two-step system GMM is used to estimate the effect of oil revenues on economic growth conditional on financial markets development.
A scoping review on incentives for adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and their outcomes
Urbanisation and domestic energy trends: Analysis of household energy consumption patterns in relation to land-use change in peri-urban Accra, Ghana
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- Consumption of firewood decreases while charcoal and LPG increases with land-use change/intensity The factors that determine the choice of energy included Land-use change/intensity and the livelihood activities.
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- Sustainable energy policy should embrace energy stacking and strongly encourage reforestation.