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Energy subsidies: Lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms
… fossil-fuel subsidies would boost trade and economic growth. Subsidies have held back economic restructuring and … income derived from the changes in livelihoods within the population that gains access to electricity; and by the … welfare programmes aimed at specific sections of the population rather than through energy pricing. • Timetables …
Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases
… Economics 11:93-104 Standard measures of economic growth do not adequately reflect changes in aggregate welfare … unsustainable cutting. The problem is compounded by high population growth rates and an agriculturally based economy. … — is unknown. The role of macroeconomic factors such as population growth, poverty reduction, national income, …
Markets and Incentives in Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy. Using Economic and Financial Tools to Sustain Forest Livelihoods and Landscapes
… and instruments that are used by governments to stimulate growth and development can also act to encourage forest loss. … and services underpin the livelihoods of much of the rural population. Harvesting of medicinal plants involves around … role in household income for the poorest quintile of the population (around 40%) (15). A study of villages in the …
Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… as the entire area influenced and/or utilized by the urban population. Legal and institutional aspects of urban, … a city's air pollution through tree planting using higher growth rates of broad-leaved evergreen trees. By shading and … patterns in general and wood energy use in particular. Population growth could also lead to increased competition …
CITES and CBNRM. Proceedings of an international symposium on “The relevance of CBNRM to the conservation and sustainable use of CITES-listed species in exporting countries”
… view that the Zambian proposal to down-list its elephant population to Appendix II at CITES CoP15 contained … their mandate due to poor governance, lack of funds, human population increases along their perimeters, and lack of … should pose no economic burden and hindrance to economic growth and prosperity, but that they need to be compatible …
Community - based incentives for nature conservation
… institutions which exclude key users or sectors of the population. Institutional failures are a key disincentive to … resource harvesting for income or subsistence, land and population pressure, seasonal stress, poor infrastructure and … grew. In response to rising land pressure and population growth in the forest-adjacent region, large areas of the …
A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes
… with in more detail include: sustainable development, the growth debate, international trade, dynamic processes, … indicators (access to water, undernourishment, potential population pressure, number living below poverty line and … various types of land distribution and agricultural population densities. The analyses suggest that PES programs …
The environmental impact of economic incentives for agricultural production: a comparative law study
… it was added, in 1977, that "merely to sustain the likely population of 6 300 million in the year 2000 at current … of what it sets out to achieve: instead of stimulating growth, it actually slows it down. Encouragement, therefore, … Dahir of 20 September 1976 on the participation of the population in the development of the forestry economy. 101/ …
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… safe drinking wa-• ter. Still, almost half of the world’s population face a scarcity of water, and about 1 billion … the need to have a national approach to equity, economic growth and environmental protec- tion, there might be an … that the programme would deliver benefits to the entire population. Project developers treated the community …