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El mecanismo para la reducción de la deforestación y la degradación forestal y para el fomento de las reservas de carbono (REDD+): Nota sobre un innovador instrumento de mitigación [PDF]
A través de un nuevo mecanismo de naturaleza financiera, conocido en la actualidad por sus siglas como REDD+, el sector forestal se ha convertido en uno de los ámbitos con mayor grado de desarrollo en las negociaciones, todavía en curso, en torno al ...
Torres Camprubí, Alejandra
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Abstract Achieving global conservation policy goals requires the ability to set and measure progress toward science‐based targets for biodiversity. The species threat abatement and restoration (STAR) metric was developed to enable actors to set science‐based targets for species.
Louise Mair +17 more
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The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems of China
A comment is made on a recent letter published on Nature, in which different methodologies are applied to estimate the carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems of China.
Pilli R, Grassi G
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Voices From the Congo Basin: Incorporating the Perspectives of Local Stakeholders for Improved REDD Design [PDF]
Presents the concerns of the Congo Basin's local and indigenous communities, community NGOs, and parliament members over the design and implementation of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation such as inequitable revenue ...
Felicien Kabamba Mbambu +4 more
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Defining the geographical level of competition: a taxonomy of industry tradability
Abstract The paper develops a taxonomy of industry tradability to define the geographical level at which competition takes place. First, it creates a novel dataset that combines production and international trade data for both goods and services industries, defined at a detailed (3‐digit) level of industry aggregation for 15 European countries.
Sara Calligaris +4 more
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Abstract Eaton, Kortum, and Kramarz (2011) (EKK) discovered empirical patterns from French manufacturing firms that a baseline firm heterogeneity model could not explain. The authors proposed and estimated a model that closely matches the patterns observed in French data.
Jiatong Zhong
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The Master's Problem: Revisiting Hegel's Critique of Social Domination
Abstract This paper argues for a reinterpretation of Hegel's internal critique of the master in his famous ‘Master–Slave Dialectic.’ Hegel argues that, in addition to the evident injustice suffered by the enslaved, the arrangement also undermines the master's own purposes.
Stephen Cunniff
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Reducing the costs of GHG estimates in agriculture to inform low emissions development: Report from an international workshop [PDF]
Sixty practitioners, policy makers and scientists reviewed and shared knowledge on the available robust and low-cost methods and data for GHG emission estimation in agriculture in a CCAFS/FAO workshop in Rome, October 2014.
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research +2 more
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ABSTRACT Introductions of species outside their native range, such as pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in the Laurentian Great Lakes, can serve as unplanned experiments that provide new insights into ecological adaptation. We synthesize available information on the understudied Great Lakes pink salmon invasion and highlight how this case can inform
Joseph A. Langan +8 more
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Genetic and Ecological Management of Pacific Salmon Fisheries for the 21st Century
ABSTRACT Based on ecological adaptation theory, tremendous effort is being spent on measures that are eliminating salmon hatcheries and fishing opportunities with the intention of protecting wild runs deemed to be of particular genetic importance to the survival of the species.
Randall E. Brummett +2 more
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