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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Will Buying Tropical Forest Carbon Benefit The Poor? Evidence from Costa Rica
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| Autores: |
Kerr, Suzi
Lipper, Leslie
Pfaff, Alexander S.P.
Cavatassi, Romina
Davis, Benjamin
Hendy, Joanna
Sanchez, Arturo
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| Data: |
2005-04-04
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| Ano: |
2004
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| Palavras-chave: |
Land Use
Deforestation
Poverty
Climate Change
Development
Costa Rica.
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
I32
O13
Q51
Q54
Q56
Q31
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| 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.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
15976
http://purl.umn.edu/23807
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations>Agricultural and Development Economics Division (ESA)>ESA Working Papers
ESA Working Paper No. 04-20
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| Formato: |
37
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