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Creating incentives to avoid deforestation

Creating incentives to avoid deforestation - [Georgetown]GY The Office 2009 - 33 p. : col. ill., maps

Bibliography: p. 32

Analyzes what will be required to align the economic interests of tropical forest countries with those of the broader community. Sets out two foundational concepts - Economic Value to the Nation (EVN) and Economic Value to the World (EVW) - that bound the solution space for avoiding deforestation. Describes an approach for calculating EVN and uses Guyana as a case study. Discusses implications for designing a mechanism to reduce emission from deforestation.

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