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  1. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Costa Rica

    Costa Rica's Program of Payments
    for Environmental Services (Pago de Servicios Ambientales,
    PSA) provides a unique opportunity to evaluate direct
    payments as a conservation policy tool. This paper reports
    evidence on how much more forest has been conserved in Costa
    Rica as a result of PSA contracts with landowners. Such
    evidence requires estimating a counterfactual outcome: how
    much forest would have been preserved if there had been no

  2. Library Resource
    July, 2015

    This paper examines whether cooperative
    behavior by respondents measured as contributions in a
    one-shot public goods game correlates with reported
    pro-forest collective action behaviors. All the outcomes
    analyzed are costly in terms of time, land, or money. The
    study finds significant evidence that more cooperative
    individuals (or those who believe their group members will
    cooperate) engage in collective action behaviors that

  3. Library Resource
    Community Managed Forest Groups and Preferences for REDD+ Contract Attributes cover image
    Reports & Research
    July, 2015
    Global

    A significant portion of the world’s
    forests that are eligible for Reducing Emission from
    Deforestation and Forest Degradation, known as REDD ,
    payments are community managed forests. However, there is
    little knowledge about preferences of households living in
    community managed forests for REDD contracts, or the
    opportunity costs of accepting REDD contracts for these
    communities. This paper uses a choice experiment survey of

  4. Library Resource
    July, 2015

    This paper estimate the effects of
    collective action in Nepal’s community forests on four
    ecological measures of forest quality. Forest user group
    collective action is identified through membership in the
    Nepal Community Forestry Programme, pending membership in
    the program, and existence of a forest user group whose
    leaders can identify the year the group was formed. This
    last, broad category is important, because many community

  5. Library Resource
    January, 2015
    Moldova

    This forest policy note (FPN) offers
    an outside view of the Moldovan forestry sector, provides
    some strategic guidance to help define sector goals, and
    identifies opportunities for consideration in the continued
    development of the sector and for the implementation of the
    Moldova and World Bank (WB) country partnership strategy
    (CPS). This study is based on a number of short visits to
    Moldova and on a number of background studies undertaken

  6. Library Resource
    October, 2014
    Bhutan

    Bhutan has recently made significant
    progress in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty.
    Bhutan also has valuable deposits of primary materials
    including dolomite, lime stone, gypsum, quartzite, stone,
    and marble, which are useful for fabrication of other
    materials. Thus, a significant part of Bhutan's current
    and prospective economic gains come from use of natural
    resources called, green sectors. The basic message in this

  7. Library Resource
    Investing in Natural Capital for Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity : A Biodiversity Roadmap for the WBG cover image
    Reports & Research
    September, 2014
    Global

    The World Bank Group (WBG) has a long
    experience in engaging in biodiversity with world-class
    expertise in the field. It has been the single largest
    funder of biodiversity investments since the late 1980s. The
    WBG investments have largely been of two kinds: (1)
    investments in biodiversity, aimed at the conservation and
    sustainable use of species, habitats, and ecosystems that
    sustain healthy ecosystems, while enhancing people's

  8. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    Congo

    The Congo Basin has the largest forest
    cover on the African continent. Of the 400 million hectares
    that the Basin comprises, about 200 million of them are
    covered by forest, with 90 percent being tropical dense
    forests. The Congo Basin's logging sector has a
    dualistic configuration. It boasts a highly visible formal
    sector that is export oriented and dominated by large
    industrial groups with foreign capital and an informal

  9. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    Congo

    The Congo Basin is among the most poorly
    served areas in terms of transport infrastructure in the
    world, and it faces a challenging environment with dense
    tropical forests crisscrossed by numerous rivers that
    require construction of numerous bridges. Given such
    complexities, constructing transport infrastructure as well
    as properly maintaining it is certainly a key challenge for
    the Congo Basin countries. Recent studies indicate that

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2013

    Reducing emissions from deforestation
    and forest degradation and enhancing carbon stocks (REDD+)
    has raised the profile of benefit sharing in the forest
    sector. Sharing benefits, however, is not a new concept.
    Previous work on benefit sharing (associated with
    intellectual property, forest and agriculture concessions,
    mining, and so forth) has focused on clarifying the concept
    and examining how benefit sharing could feed into broader

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