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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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  Combating poaching and illegal logging in Tanzania: voices of the rangers - hands-on experiences from the field

  GRID Arendal, 2017

  Poaching  of  wildlife  is  still  a  massive  problem  in  Tanzania.
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  Can conservation agriculture save tropical forests? The case of minimum tillage in Zambia

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2017

  Minimum tillage (MT) is a key component in the promotion of conservation agriculture (CA). This paper asks whether MT reduces cropland expansion and thus deforestation. We develop a simple theoretical household model of land expansion, and test hypotheses by estimating a double hurdle model using household survey data from 368 smallholders in rural Zambia.
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  A land grab for pulp- new mill project by Portucel Mozambique

  Environmental Paper Network, 2017

  This latest discussion document explores the plan by The Navigator Company to develop a new pulp mill in Mozambique. The Portuguese company, operating as Portucel Mozambique and with funding from the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, is acquiring huge areas of land for establishing eucalyptus tree plantations to supply the mill.
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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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  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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  No sense of ownership in weak participation: a forest conservation experiment in Tanzania

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2016

  Sense of ownership is often advocated as an argument for local participation within the epistemic development and nature conservation communities. Stakeholder participation in initiating, designing or implementing institutions is claimed to establish a sense of ownership among the stakeholders and subsequently improve the intended outcomes of the given institution.
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  Protected area governance, carbon offset forestry, and environmental (in)justice at Mount Elgon, Uganda

  University of East Anglia, 2015

  At Mount Elgon National Park in Uganda, local conservation authorities assert that a variety of benefit sharing schemes mitigate the negative consequences of exclusionary forest conservation and carbon sequestration for nearby communities.
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  Real-time evaluation of Norway's international climate and forest initiative. Literature review and programme theory.

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2016

  The report presents findings of a baseline for a new wave of real time evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). Two separate but closely connected studies have been conducted following an extensive literature review, workshops, and interviews.
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  European forest ecosystems — State and trends

  European Environment Agency, 2016

  Increasingly, strategies for the management and conservation of forest ecosystems need to deal with emerging challenges. The growing uncertainties with regard to climate change, and the rapidly changing social and environmental pressures on forest resources, have underlined the need for the sustainable management of forest ecosystems and, potentially, the need to go even further.

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