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1 online resource (308 pages)
ISBN:
9780821367360
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9780821367353
Series Statement:
World Bank Policy Research Reports
Content:
Despite the vast number of books and reports on tropical deforestation, there's confusion about the causes of forest loss and forest poverty, and the effectiveness of policy responses. At Loggerheads seeks to describe ways to reconciles pressures for agricultural expansion in the tropics with the urgent needs for both forest conservation and poverty alleviation. It diagnoses the causes and impacts of forest loss and the reasons for the association of forests and poverty. It looks at how policies - modulated by local conditions - act simultaneously on deforestation and poverty, creating tradeoffs or complementarities, depending on the situation. The report brings to the surface problems that impede adoption of favourable policies, describing institutional and technological innovations that might help overcome these impediments.
Content:
Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Overview -- Why Are Tropical Forests a Concern? -- This Report's Aims, Audience, and Scope -- This Report's Arguments and Structure -- Setting the Stage: Two Contrasting Cases of Poverty, Wealth, Biodiversity, and Deforestation -- Poverty, Biodiversity Loss, and Deforestation in Madagascar -- Wealth, Biodiversity Loss, and Deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado -- Part I: The Where and Why of Deforestation and Forest Poverty -- 1. Forests Differ -- Three Stylized Forest Types -- From Stylized Types to Mapped Domains -- The Uneven Distribution of Forest Populations -- Trends in Forest Change -- Threatened Species-Concentrated in Less-remote Areas and Mosaiclands -- Summary -- 2. Incentives and Constraints Shape Forest Outcomes -- The View from the Forest Plot: Comparing the Returns to Forestry and Agriculture -- How Do Agroclimate, Prices, Technology, Tenure, and Other Factors Affect Deforestation and Income? -- Forest Trajectories: Roads, Markets, and Rights Shape Outcomes for Environment and Income -- Summary -- 3. Poverty in Forests Stems from Remoteness and Lack of Rights -- Poverty Rates and Poverty Density: Two Ways of Viewing Poor Areas -- Remote Forests-High Poverty Rates, Low Poverty Densities -- Incomes of Forest Dwellers Depend on Rights and Access to Forestlands -- Forests, Poverty, and Deforestation: Ambiguous Relationships -- Summary -- 4. Deforestation Imposes Geographically Varied Environmental Damages -- Biodiversity Loss-A Local and Global Concern -- How Does Deforestation Affect Water, Air, and Weather? -- Deforestation Spurs Climate Change -- Forest Loss-Sometimes Irreversible -- Summary -- Part II: Institutional and Policy Responses -- 5. Improving Forest Governance -- Who Should Have Rights over Forests? Which Rights?.
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Overview; Boxes; Figures; Tables; Setting the Stage: Two Contrasting Cases of Poverty, Wealth, Biodiversity, and Deforestation; Part I: The Where and Why of Deforestation and Forest Poverty; Maps; Part II: Institutional and Policy Responses; Appendix A: Tables; Appendix B: Data and Methods; References; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821367353
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe At loggerheads? Washington, DC. : World Bank, 2007 ISBN 0821367358
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821367353
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Tropischer Wald
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Rodung
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Umweltfaktor
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Armut
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Bekämpfung
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Agrarpolitik
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