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381DeforestationPresentation.pptxDeforestation
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Current situation
Every minute 20 football fields of forest are being cut down
By the year 2030, the planet might have only 10% of its forests
If deforestation isn’t stopped, they could all be gone in less than 100 years.
The impact of agriculture on deforestation.
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The status of each region
Fires in Bolivia
The country’s total tree cover loss in 2019 was over 80%
Large-scale agriculture
a Third of the World’s Tropical Primary Forest Loss in Brazil
Illegal land-grabbing in the indigenous territory
Fires occurred on already- deforested areas
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Land Rent Theory for deforestation
A piece of land should be allocated to the use that would generate the highest potential
Land rent could refer to rents, profits, or utility
Forest could be conserved when land use for forest can generate the maximum value compared to other possible land uses.
Reforestation could be encouraged in a given land if its land use for being reforested can compete with other land uses.
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Land Rent Theory Model of Land Rent for Deforestation
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REDD+ : reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
Economic compensation mechanism in the forest sector
A proposed economic mechanism to compensate landholder the opportunity costs of forgone economic benefits from other alternative land uses to avoid deforestation
Can effect forest land rent
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References
Angelsen, A. (2007). Forest Cover Change in Space and Time: Combining the von Thünen and Forest Transition (No. WPS4117), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper. World Bank Publications.
Indarto, Jarot and Mutaqin, Dadang J. (2016): An overview of theoretical and empirical studies on deforestation. Published in: Journal of International Development and Cooperation , Vol. 22, No. 1 & 2 (1 March 2016): pp. 107-120.
Mikaela, W. & Elizabeth, . G. (2020). We Lost a Football Pitch of Primary Rainforest Every 6 Seconds in 2019. World Resource Institute. Retrieved from https://www.wri.org/blog/2020/06/global-tree-cover-loss-data-2019
The Biggest Environmental Problems Of 2020. (2020). Earth.Org. Retrived from https://earth.org/the-biggest-environmental-problems-of-our-lifetime/
Walker, R. (2004), Theorizing land-cover and land-use change: the case of tropical deforestation, International Regional Science Review, 27(3), 247-270.
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