515 research outputs found
Replication Data for "The future of forests: emissions from tropical deforestation with and without a carbon price, 2016-2050"
No full textWe project the future of tropical deforestation from 2016-2050 with and without carbon pricing policies, based on 18 million observations of historical forest loss spanning 101 tropical countries. Our spatial projections of future deforestation incorporate topography, accessibility, protected status, potential agricultural revenue, and a robust observed inverted-U-shaped trajectory of forest cover loss with respect to remaining forest cover. We project that in the absence of new forest conservation policies, 289 million hectares of tropical forest will be cleared from 2016-2050—an area about the size of India and one-seventh of Earth’s tropical forest area in the year 2000. We project that this tropical deforestation will release 169 GtCO2 to the atmosphere from 2016-2050—one-sixth of the remaining carbon that can be emitted if the rise in Earth’s temperature is to be likely held below 2 °C. We estimate that a universally applied carbon price of 50/tCO2 would avoid 77 GtCO2. These prices correspond to average costs to land users of 21/tCO2 respectively. By comparison if all tropical countries implemented anti-deforestation policies as effective as those in the Brazilian Amazon post-2004 then 60 GtCO2 of emissions would be avoided. Our analysis corroborates the conclusions of previous studies that reducing tropical deforestation is a sizable and low-cost option for mitigating climate change. In contrast to previous studies, we project that the amount of emissions that can be avoided at low-cost by reducing tropical deforestation will increase rather than decrease in future decades. Encouragingly, 89% of potential low-cost emission reductions are located in the 47 tropical countries that have already signaled their intention to reduce emissions from deforestation in exchange for performance-based finance (REDD+)
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No full textin & about town piece on Tony-winning playwright Charles Busch, who portrays t
No full textin & about town piece on Tony-winning playwright Charles Busch, who portrays the title role in an Ogunquit Playhouse production of Auntie Mame. Busch, author of Tale of the Allergists\u27s Wife, stars in his first fully staged version of the play. Auntie Mame plays at the Ogunquit Playhouse June 28 - July 10, a co-production with the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York
Whaling Will Never Do For Me: The American Whaleman in the Nineteenth Century
No full text] just begin to find out that whaling will never do for me and have determined to leave the ship here if possible. That sentiment, expressed by a foremast hand aboard the ship Caroline in 1843, is one shared by many of the whalemen in this fascinating book. Interest in Herman Melville\u27s Moby Dick has contributed to a substantial literature on the history and lore of the industry. But not until now has the vast body of surviving whaleship logs and journals been used to paint an encompassing picture of the difficult but colorful life aboard nineteenth-century American whaling vessels.Briton Cooper Busch, author of a definitive history of the American sealing industry, in this book only incidentally discusses the actual chase for whales. His focus instead is the life of whalemen at sea, and particularly the harsh discipline that kept men aboard through long and often dispiriting years. Busch depicts the complex social world aboard ship, defining and detailing such issues as crime and punishment, competing racial elements, the social distance between officers and men, sexual behavior, and the role of women aboard ships.For oppressed, discouraged, or simply bored whalemen, several escapes existed, from the rarest of all mutiny through labor protests of various types, to individual desertion or appeal to an American consul abroad. To each of these topics Busch devotes a chapter. He also provides glimpses of those occasional moments of relief such as a Fourth of July celebration and such somber moments as a death at sea.Fascinating details and original quotations from individual whalemen make this book more than a study of general trends. For anyone with even a casual interest in whaling, it is indispensable.
Briton Cooper Busch is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History at Colgate University, where he has been chairman of the department and director of the division of social sciences. He is author of eight previous books in maritime and diplomatic history.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_social_history/1001/thumbnail.jp
Giorgio Caproni alias Wilhelm Busch
No full textSolo i germanisti associano il nome di Caproni all’unica traduzione dal tedesco in cui si cimentò, la versione italiana delle storie illustrate di Max e Moritz (1865) di Wilhelm Busch, che narrano le burle, talvolta persino crudeli, ordite da due bambini a danno di alcuni adulti. Fra i tanti traduttori italiani, Caproni si distingue per la sua notorietà come autore in proprio oltre che come traduttore, dunque il contributo si chiederà se e come l’attività poetica per così dire autonoma influenzi quella traduttiva. Anziché concentrarsi sulle difficoltà insite nel testo di partenza, ovvero sugli ostacoli da superare per renderlo accessibile a un pubblico non germanofono, l’articolo metterà in risalto la creatività di cui dà prova il testo di arrivo, saldandosi con la restante produzione di Caproni, come dimostrano taluni stilemi utilizzati. Particolarmente interessanti saranno dunque i punti in cui Caproni si prende delle libertà, adatta l’originale alla cultura di arrivo, ma soprattutto alla propria sensibilità poetica, facendosi co-autore di un’opera che per molti lettori si identifica con le sue parole.Only Germanists associate Caproni’s name with his only translation from German, the Italian version of Max and Moritz’ illustrated stories by Wilhelm Busch (1865), which tell about the - sometimes even cruel - pranks made by two children against adults. Among many Italian translators, Caproni stands out for his fame as an author himself as well as a translator. This paper investigates whether and how his poetic activity influences this translation. Instead of concentrating on the difficulties of the source text, i.e. on the obstacles to overcome to make it accessible to a non-German-speaking public, the paper will highlight the creativity inherent to the target text, which is very strictly connected with Caproni’s other production, as it is proved by his writing style. Therefore, of particular interest are those points in which Caproni takes liberties by adapting the original to the target culture and, above all, to his poetic sensitivity, so that he becomes the co-author of a work which is known to lots of readers through his words
Expect the Unexpected: Organizational Purpose as Enabler of Serendipitous Impact
No full textChristian Busch, author of The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck, and Nele Terveen explain how purpose helps leaders connect the dots between grand challenges and strategic responses. When leaders expect the unexpected, the authors explain, they incent their stakeholders to embrace uncertainty so they can better guide their organizations through adversity and disruption. By leveraging the five practices of Serendipitous Impact (impact mission, impact leadership, impact governance, impact networks, and impact measurement) unexpected events can help leaders come up with solutions that often cannot be seen, let alone fully defined, in advance.https://www.cutter.com/journal/scaffolding-purpose-times-polycrisi
Monitoring and evaluating the payment-for-performance premise of REDD+: the case of India’s ecological fiscal transfers
No full textIntroduction: The central premise underlying international payments for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) is that offering governments ex post payments for verified success in reducing emissions will motivate them to protect and restore forests. However, the extent to which performance-based payments motivate governments to protect and restore forests has yet to be evaluated quantitatively. Researchers have only quantitatively evaluated performance-based payments to non-governments for forest outcomes (e.g. payments for ecosystem services) and to governments for non-forest outcomes (e.g. results-based aid). Methods: We describe how researchers now have an opportunity to more easily evaluate performance-based payments to governments for forest outcomes thanks to India’s new ecological fiscal transfers (EFTs), which provide $6-12 billion per year to Indian states in proportion to their forest cover. Discussion: India’s EFTs differ from REDD+ programs in that they pay for states’ stock of forest area in the recent past rather than reductions in the rate of forest carbon loss in the near-future. Nevertheless, India’s EFTs focus on a single outcome and have many recipient governments, significant financial scale, lack of contemporaneous confounding policy changes, universal participation, and long-term data collection. Conclusion: These features make India’s EFTs especially useful for testing the payment-for-performance premise of REDD+
Gains from configuration: The transboundary protected area as a conservation tool
No full textNearly two hundred transboundary protected areas comprise a portion of the global conservation landscape the size of India, with further expansion anticipated. Proponents claim that transboundary protected areas outperform isolated protected areas in achieving conservation objectives, while regional case studies have led critics to challenge this claim. Empirical investigation into the relative performance of transboundary protected areas is fundamentally limited since these areas cannot be directly compared to the isolated protected areas that might otherwise have emerged in the same location. This paper develops a game theory model of park formation to compare counterfactual transboundary and isolated protected areas. The model suggests that under certain conditions, transboundary protected areas can achieve greater conservation and production objectives, even in the absence of international cooperative park management. The paper establishes five sufficient conditions for transboundary protected areas to provide greater national welfare, domestic conservation value, or global conservation value than counterfactual isolated protected areas. These conditions are tested for three common conservation objectives. The results suggest that when the objective of conservation is species persistence or interior habitat, conservation groups should encourage transboundary protected areas. However, when the objective of conservation is to extend reserve coverage to the maximum number of species, conservation groups should encourage protected areas where species richness is greatest, whether or not these areas span international borders.Transboundary Protected areas Biodiversity conservation Game theory
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