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Linking Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: A Review with Evidence from the Land-Use Sectors

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Peer-reviewed publication
Dezembro, 2018
Global

There is extensive scientific evidence that both adaptation and mitigation are essential to address the problem of climate change. However, there is still limited knowledge about the possibilities for exploiting the interrelationships between these measures in the design and implementation of climate change activities.

Analyses of land cover change trajectories leading to tropical forest loss : Illustrated for the West Kutai and MahakamUlu Districts, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2018
Indonesia

In Indonesia, land cover change for agriculture and mining is threatening tropical forests, biodiversity and ecosystem services. However, land cover change is highly dynamic and complex and varies over time and space.

Changes in soil organic carbon stocks after conversion from forest to oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo

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Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2018

The continuous rise in the global demand for palm oil has resulted in large-scale expansion of industrial oil palm plantations - largely at the expense of primary and secondary forests. The potentially negative environmental impacts of these conversions have given rise to closer scrutiny.

Scramble for Land Rights: Reducing Inequity between Communities and Companies

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Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2018
Global

Community land, crucial to rural livelihood around the world, is increasingly targeted by commercial interests. Its loss can lead to environmental degradation, increased rural poverty and land disputes that last for years. Without formal legal recognition of their land rights, communities struggle to protect their land from being allocated to outside investors.

Restoring forests and landscapes: the key to a sustainable future.

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Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2018
Global

The negative consequences of human actions have brought our world and our future to a dangerous crossroads: will we be able to avert the worst impacts of climate change? How can we stop and reverse the loss of fertile soil, biodiversity, and other natural capital that supplies all our food and other basic needs? Where are the jobs for millions of unemployed young people?

¿Refleja el uso de la tierra en la Amazonia un fallo del mercado? Un análisis de los servicios ambientales de la Amazonia desde la perspectiva del costo de oportunidad

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Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2018
Brazil

Se analiza si la deforestación en la región amazónica es un caso típico de fallo del mercado. Se calcula el costo de oportunidad de actividades económicas que contribuyen a la deforestación, comparado con el costo de los usos que dejan intactos a los bosques.

Revista CEPAL no. 126

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Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2018
Latin America and the Caribbean

La búsqueda de China de recursos naturales en América Latina / Felipe Freitas da Rocha y Ricardo Bielschowsky .-- Gobierno corporativo y deuda internacional de empresas latinoamericanas / Georgina Núñez Reyes, Ignacio Perrotini Hernández y Francisco López-Herrera .-- Efecto derrame del crecimiento de China en América del Sur: un análisis basado en el comercio internacional / Gercione Dionizio S

Does Amazonian land use display market failure? An opportunity-cost approach to the analysis of Amazonian environmental services

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Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2018
Brazil

The article discusses whether deforestation in the Amazonian region should be considered a typical case of market failure and computes the opportunity cost of economic activities that promote deforestation relative to uses that keep the forest intact.

CEPAL Review no. 126

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Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2018
Latin America and the Caribbean

China’s quest for natural resources in Latin America / Felipe Freitas da Rocha and Ricardo Bielschowsky .-- Corporate governance and international bond issues by Latin American corporations / Georgina Núñez Reyes, Ignacio Perrotini Hernández and Francisco López-Herrera .-- The spillover effect of Chinese growth on South America: an analysis from international trade / Gercione Dionizio Silva, Ma

Community Forestry Enterprise development in Myanmar through socially responsible business approaches

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Policy Papers & Briefs
Novembro, 2018
Myanmar

This policy brief was developed based on findings from a series of sub-national and national multi-stakeholder workshops organized between July and November 2018. These workshops shared the experiences of community forestry enterprise (CFE) development and private sector partnership in Myanmar. This report highlights the findings.