Land use policy for forest management : impacts on forest outcomes
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- While researchers have increasingly accurate data about changing forest cover from satellites, the complex causal mechanisms that link forest cover change and forest management policy are not yet fully understood. My dissertation contributes broadly to the question: How does land use policy for forest management directly and indirectly impact forest outcomes? I address this overarching question in four chapters, with each chapter focusing on a different aspect of land use policy for forest management, and the direct and indirect outcomes of deforestation, forest carbon storage, and air pollution. First I examine an empirical case and demonstrate that multiple use allocation decreases deforestation rates in the Peruvian Amazon. Second I analyze sustainability commitments and fines in private concessions in the Peruvian Amazon and find that they are not associated with significant changes in deforestation rates. Third I examine forest carbon offset projects in the US and find that they have increased forest carbon stock for climate change mitigation. Fourth, I examine the use of forest carbon offsets and find that they have a small potential impact on human-health related air quality.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Anderson, Christa Marie |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Field, Christopher B |
| Degree supervisor | Lambin, Eric F |
| Thesis advisor | Field, Christopher B |
| Thesis advisor | Lambin, Eric F |
| Thesis advisor | Asner, Gregory P |
| Thesis advisor | Dirzo, Rodolfo |
| Thesis advisor | Mach, Katharine J |
| Degree committee member | Asner, Gregory P |
| Degree committee member | Dirzo, Rodolfo |
| Degree committee member | Mach, Katharine J |
| Associated with | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Christa Marie Anderson. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University). |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Christa Marie Anderson
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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