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Lungs of the earth to collapse?
Dire predictions about the future of the Amazon makes for grim reading.What will the land be used for? How big will the feedback loops be? Now we are past the tipping point (imo) things could start unravelling rather quickly.Does this mean we shoul...
Trees pay a high cost for soft toilet roll obsession
Forests are suffering at the hands of consumers who demand soft toilet rolls. Recycled toilet paper just isn't the same apparently.Soft toilet roll could be seen as one of life's little luxuries. I expect that we need to get used to be bit of disco...
Resources, population growth and conflict
The extent to which resources are the cause of political conflict has long been debated. With increasing populations and decreasing natural resources exacerbated by climate change means the potential for future conflict increases every year.Lester B...
Deforestation and cows - Amazon update from Live Science
National Science Foundation and Live Science comment on the state of the Amazon rainforest.It is journalistic in style - hooking first paragraph eventually getting to the meat so to speak.This article seems to suggest that the demand for burgers is k...
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
From the inbox:International Workshop on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation Organized by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM, Italy) and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF, USA)“Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation - REDD...
Is the financial crisis good or bad for deforestation? Lessons from history
The following is a guest post from Sjur Kasa (CICERO, OLSO).This is a timely piece looking at the relationship between financial crises and the environment. The crux of the argument is that a global recession has positive and negative effects on the...
"The Eliasch report": Rich to pay to stop deforestation?
This is an old story with a new spin.This is a post from 25th September this year:Rich to pay the poor to preserve forests?Now we get a new UK based report that effectively says the same thing. The economics of this idea, where rich countries pay po...
"The stolen forests" - trade, the environment and corruption
A fine article from the New Yorker that combines trade, the environment, development and corruption - all favorite topics of mine. This is an excellent and lengthy 9 page article but is well worth the effort.H/T Matt Kahn.The Stolen Forests [New Yor...
Rich to pay the poor to preserve forests?
As the new term begins and preparation for Environmental Economics lectures starts again it is time to dust off the debate on whether rich nations should pay poor nations to preserve their forests. Logically it makes sense but the coordination and f...
