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  Producing localized commodity frontiers at the end of cheap nature: an analysis of eco‐scalar carbon fixes and their consequences

  Wiley Online Library, 2018

  There is no single ‘great’ commodity frontier whose exploitation under current socio‐technical conditions could fuel capital accumulation at the global scale. According to Jason Moore, this represents the ‘end of Cheap Nature’ and signals a terminal crisis for capitalism as we know it.
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  Management regimes for REDD+: an analysis of the regime in the RDS Rio Negro REDD+ pilot

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2017

  This report is an output of the project ‘Man and forests – an evaluation of management strategies for reduced deforestation (Mana_Forest)’, led by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway, in partnership with Fundação Amazonas Sustentável, Brazil; Makerere University, Uganda; Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania; the University of Oslo, Norway and the Woods Hole Research
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  Amazonian farmers’ response to fire policies and climate change

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2017

  Despite a fall in deforestation, frequency and severity of fires in the Brazilian Amazon are rising, causing huge carbon emissions, biodiversity losses and local economic costs. The ignition sources are anthropogenic and mostly related to the accidental spread of agricultural fires.
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  Real-time evaluation of Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative. Empowerment of indigenous peoples and forest dependent local communities through support to civil society organisations

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2017

  The Terms of References (ToR) of the present evaluation have the following objectives:
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  Livelihoods and land uses in environmental policy approaches: The case of PES and REDD+ in the Lam Dong Province of Vietnam

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017

  This paper explores assumptions about the drivers of forest cover change in a Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) context in the Lam Dong Province in Vietnam.
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  Governance structures established for REDD+ implementation and their adaptation to the institutional and ecological conditions in Equateur province of the DRC

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2017

  This report is one of the outputs of the project “Man and forests – an evaluation of management strategies for reduced deforestation,” which aims to evaluate the different management regimes established to protect forests and improve livelihoods under the so-called REDD+ framework – reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
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  Comparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational REDD+ initiatives - IOPscience

  IOPscience, 2017

  The central role of forests in climate change mitigation, as recognized in the Paris agreement, makes it increasingly important to develop and test methods for monitoring and evaluating the carbon effectiveness of REDD+.
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  Projected impacts of climate change on forests in the Brahmaputra, Koshi, and Upper Indus river basins

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017

  Two dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs), IBIS and LPJ, were used to assess the projected impacts of climate change on forests in terms of the shifts in vegetation types and changes in NPP (net primary productivity) in the mid Brahmaputra, Koshi, and upper Indus river basins.
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  Natural resource governance at multiple scales in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017

  Human efforts to address poverty, enhance welfare, and conserve natural resources and the environment often fail because of faulty governance and implementation. Improvements in governance are consistently viewed as means to address the failures of sustainable development and natural resource management.
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  Norway's Climate and Forest Initiative: Lessons learned and recommendations

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2017

  This report presents a synthesis of the main findings identified from the external assessments and evaluations carried out since 2009 to date by Norad on Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI).

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