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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Will Buying Tropical Forest Carbon Benefit The Poor? Evidence from Costa Rica
Autores: | Kerr,   Suzi; Lipper,   Leslie; Pfaff,   Alexander S.P.; Cavatassi,   Romina; Davis,   Benjamin; Hendy,   Joanna; Sanchez,   Arturo.
Data: | 2005-04-04
Ano: | 2004
Palavras-chave: | Land Use; Deforestation; Poverty; Climate Change; Development; Costa Rica.; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; I32; O13; Q51; Q54; Q56; Q31.
Resumo: | We review claims about the potential for carbon markets that link both payments for carbon services and poverty levels to ongoing rates of tropical deforestation. We then examine these effects empirically for Costa Rica during the 20th century  using an econometric approach that addresses the irreversibilities in deforestation. We find significant effects of the relative returns to forest on deforestation rates. Thus, carbon payments would induce conservation and also carbon sequestration, and if land users were poor could conserve forest while addressing rural poverty. However, we find poorer areas are less responsive to returns. This and  transaction costs could lead carbon payments policies not to be focused upon the poor. Other practical considerations may also dampen an understandable enthusiasm for service-based payments addressing both environment and inequality. Nonetheless, as the poor live in areas with more forest, they may benefit most from payments.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

15976

http://purl.umn.edu/23807

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations&gt;Agricultural and Development Economics Division (ESA)&gt;ESA Working Papers

ESA Working Paper No. 04-20

Formato:

37

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