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Land tenure and REDD+: The good, the bad and the ugly

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Journal Articles & Books
december, 2013
Brazil

A number of international donors, national governments and project proponents have begun to lay the groundwork for REDD+, but tenure insecurity – including the potential risks of land grabbing by outsiders and loss of local user rights to forests and forest land – is one of the main reasons that many indigenous and other local peoples have publicly opposed it.

How does ‘Free, Prior and Informed Consent’ (FPIC) impact social equity? Lessons from mining and forestry and their implications for REDD+

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Journal Articles & Books
december, 2013

The principle of “Free, Prior and Informed Consent” (FPIC) is promoted through international agreements and safeguards in order to strengthen social equity in resource management by requiring consent from indigenous and/or local communities prior to actions that affect their land and resource rights.

relative impact of countries on global natural resource consumption and ecological degradation

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Journal Articles & Books
december, 2013
Global

Global consumption of natural resources and ecological degradation continues unabated as a result of human activity and economic growth in countries individually and collectively. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly important to determine the countries that are the main drivers of ecological change.

Brave new green world – Consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity

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Journal Articles & Books
december, 2013
Australia

Pricing greenhouse gas emissions is a burgeoning and possibly lucrative financial means for climate change mitigation. Emissions pricing is being used to fund emissions-abatement technologies and to modify land management to improve carbon sequestration and retention.

Measuring transaction costs incurred by landowners in multiple land-use situations

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Journal Articles & Books
december, 2013
Sweden

This paper describes the development and implementation of a method to measure the transaction costs in situations of multiple land-use, where the actions of one actor have negative effects on the other and vice versa (i.e., where the two actors’ usage patterns are interdependent).

Chinese Forest Policy Reforms After 1998: The Case of the Natural Forest Protection Program and the Slope Land Conversion Program

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Journal Articles & Books
december, 2013
China

SUMMARYIn this article we discuss the two largest reforestation and forest conservation programmes in China, the Natural Forest Protection Programme (NFPP), and the Slope Land Conversion Programme (SLCP, also called Grain for Green), introduced in 1998.

Afforestation and reforestation projects in South and South-East Asia under the Clean Development Mechanism: Trends and development opportunities

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Journal Articles & Books
december, 2013
Asia

This paper contributes to identification of key trends, opportunities and constraints for development of afforestation/reforestation projects (AR) under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

Contribution to knowledge of spatial distribution of succession trees in relationship with distance of forest border

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Journal Articles & Books
december, 2013
Slovakia

Land use reflects the needs, demands and values of human society. We can see two antagonistic trends of land use change in Slovakia over the past few decades. Land use change towards more intensive in some areas (vicinity of cities, highways, lowlands), but others (uplands and mountains with traditionally agricultural used) are abandoned and left to their own spontaneous dynamic.