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dc.contributor.authorHunt, Colin
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:49:51Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:49:51Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-09-05T06:48:23Z
dc.identifier.issn08178038
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/40309
dc.description.abstractDeforestation and forest degradation has now taken centre-stage in efforts to control global greenhouse gas emissions, as the developed countries-having in the main failed to convince their own electorates to bear abatement costs-have pledged large sums to stop it. It is in the interests of both donors and recipients that the costs of abatement are matched by compensation payments. The paper examines the abatement in greenhouse gas emissions achievable in Papua New Guinea (a heavily-forested tropical country) by the reduction in deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), and its opportunity costs. Its methodology takes advantage of recent modelling of the emissions from deforestation in PNG and integrates this with financial models developed by the author for the logging and palm oil industries. The analysis helps to achieve a fuller understanding of the complexity of designing and implementing policies for REDD that not only adequately compensate for a country's opportunity costs but do so in a way that improves the welfare of regional communities.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAsia Pacific Press
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.publisher.urihttp://peb.anu.edu.au/issues/view_article.php?art_id=881
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom64
dc.relation.ispartofpageto88
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPacific Economic Bulletin
dc.relation.ispartofvolume25
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEconomics not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode149999
dc.titleCompensating for the costs of reducing deforestation in Papua New Guinea
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.date.issued2010
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gro.griffith.authorHunt, Colin


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