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GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS KNOWLEDGE, ACCESS, AND DEVELOPMENT. Edited by Peter Drahos and Ruth Mayne, 2002. The publication analyses the potential threats of intellectual property rights, and suggests ways in which the intellectual property system can be changed to serve development goals. It synthesises the views of academic experts and NGOs at the cutting edge of current campaigning and debate. For further information, contact: email: publish@oxfam.org.uk; Internet: www.oxfam.org.uk/publications
"Turning in circles : district governance, illegal logging, and environmental decline in Sumatra, Indonesia," by John F. McCarthy, in SOCIETY AND NATURAL RESOURCES, 15 (10, 2002). After examining the impact of political and economic changes on Indonesian illegal forestry, this article concludes that the logging epidemic has complex, multidimensional causes that allow for no easy remedies. Moreover, as many of the dynamics described here will continue to predominate after Indonesia implements new decentralisation laws, this ensures that the informal system of exchange and accommodation described here will continue to shape forest outcomes.
"The impact of forests and forest management on neighboring property values," by Yeon-Su Kim Rebecca L Johnson, in SOCIETY AND NATURAL RESOURCES, 15 (10, 2002). This study estimates the contribution of forests and forest management to property values around McDonald-Dunn Research Forest near Corvallis, OR. We investigated the economic effects of proximity to the forest, different forest conditions, and management schemes to neighboring property values using a geographic information system. Proximity to the forest has a positive contribution to property values; this relationship is even stronger for houses closer to the forest. Forest attributes also affect property values. The sales price is lower for property from which clear-cut sites are visible at the time of purchase if all other characteristics of the house are identical.
"Quantifying the impacts on biodiversity of policies for carbon sequestration in forests" by Stephen Matthews, Raymond O’Connor & Andrew J. Plantinga, in ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 40 (1, 2002). There is currently a great deal of interest in the use of afforestation (conversion of non-forest land to forest) to reduce atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide. The main objective of this paper is to estimate the changes in farmland and forest bird populations that are likely to occur under an afforestation policy. Econometric models of land use are used to simulate the response of private landowners to subsidies for tree planting on agricultural land.
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