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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD / Lee J. Alston, Krister Andersson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alston, Lee J.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w16756.
- NBER working paper series no. w16756
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.
- Summary:
- Understanding and minimizing the transaction costs of policy implementation are critical for reducing tropical forest losses. As the international community prepares to launch REDD+, a global initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, policymakers need to pay attention to the transactions costs associated with negotiating, monitoring and enforcing contracts between governments and donors. The existing institutional design for REDD+ relies heavily on central government interventions in program countries. Analyzing new data on forest conservation outcomes, we identify several problems with this centralized approach to forest protection. We describe options for a more diversified policy approach that could reduce the full set of transaction costs and thereby improve the efficiency of the market-based approach for conservation.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2011.
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