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Controlling Pollution in Transition Economies examines and
evaluates the recent experience of implementing pollution charges
and the use of environmental permits in Central and Eastern Europe
and Russia.The book focuses on controlling point-source air and
water pollution. It describes and analyses the experience of
implementing pollution charges and fines, and the interactions of
these fiscal instruments with systems of pollution permits. The ten
country case studies have been written by specialists who have been
or are actively involved with the development or revision of
pollution charges. Based on the experience of these countries,
general conclusions are drawn for implementing pollution charge
systems in other contexts. This book will encourage new theoretical
and empirical work on the problem of implementing economic
instruments (pollution charges), in combination with
'command-and-control' instruments (pollution permits).
Practitioners and policy analysts as well as graduate students,
academics, researchers and environmental consultants will find this
book an important contribution to the existing literature.
Forest tenure reforms are occurring in many developing countries
around the world. These reforms typically include devolution of
forest lands to local people and communities, which has attracted a
great deal of attention and interest. While the nature and level of
devolution vary by country, all have potentially important
implications for resource allocation, local ecosystem services,
livelihoods and climate change. This book helps students,
researchers and professionals to understand the importance and
implications of these reforms for local environmental quality,
climate change, and the livelihoods of villagers, who are often
poor. It is shown that local forest management can often be more
successful than top-down management of common pool forest
resources. The relationship of local forest tenure reform to the
important climate change initiative REDD+ is also considered. The
work includes a number of generic chapters and also detailed case
studies from China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda.
Using specific examples and a wide variety of disciplinary
perspectives, including quantitative and qualitative analytical
methods, the book provides an authoritative and critical picture of
local forest reforms in light of the key challenges humanity faces
today.
Forest tenure reforms are occurring in many developing countries
around the world. These reforms typically include devolution of
forest lands to local people and communities, which has attracted a
great deal of attention and interest. While the nature and level of
devolution vary by country, all have potentially important
implications for resource allocation, local ecosystem services,
livelihoods and climate change. This book helps students,
researchers and professionals to understand the importance and
implications of these reforms for local environmental quality,
climate change, and the livelihoods of villagers, who are often
poor. It is shown that local forest management can often be more
successful than top-down management of common pool forest
resources. The relationship of local forest tenure reform to the
important climate change initiative REDD+ is also considered. The
work includes a number of generic chapters and also detailed case
studies from China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda.
Using specific examples and a wide variety of disciplinary
perspectives, including quantitative and qualitative analytical
methods, the book provides an authoritative and critical picture of
local forest reforms in light of the key challenges humanity faces
today.
Agricultural Investment and Productivity provides a deep and
systematic look at the opportunities for and constraints to
investments in sustainable agriculture in East Africa, offering
important insights into what works and how to analyze agricultural
investments in one of the poorest regions of the world. The book
critically examines the reasons behind East Africa's stagnant
agricultural productivity over the past forty-five years, using the
primary lens of investments in fertilizers, seeds, and sustainable
land management technologies. These investments have a tremendous
impact on production volume, ultimately affecting the income of
millions of families throughout the region.
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