| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Alec Baldwin -- Foreword by Lord Nicholas Stern -- Preface by Nancy Birdsall -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Tropical Forests: A Large Share of Climate Emissions -- an Even Larger Share of Potential Emission Reducations -- Tropical Forests and Development: Contributions to Water, Energy, Agriculture, Health, Safety, and Adaptation -- Monitoring Tropical Forests: Advances in Tracking Emissions, Sequestration, and Safeguards -- Cheaper, Cooler, Faster: Reducing Tropical Deforestation for a More Cost-Effective Global Response to Climate Change -- Making Forests Worth More Alive than Dead: Carbon May Succeed Where Other Values Haven't -- How to Stop Deforestation: Experience from Brazil and Beyond -- Global Consumer Demand: A Big Footprint on Tropical Forests -- The International Politics of Deforestation and Climate Change: Two Problems with a Common Solution -- Forest Politics in Developing Countries: Tipping the Balance Away from Deforestation as Usual -- The Politics of REDD+ in Rich Countries: Broad Constituencies in Favor, Small but Vocal Opposition -- Finance for Tropical Forests: Too Low, Too Slow, Too Constrained as Aid -- Conclusion: A Closing Window of Opportunity -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
Tropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time-averting climate change and promoting development. Despite their importance, tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and even increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. The good news is that the science, economics, and politics are aligned to support a major international effort over the next five years to reverse tropical deforestation. Why Forests' Why Now' synthesizes the latest evidence on the importance of tropical forests in a way that is accessible to anyone interested in climate change and development and to readers already familiar with the problem of deforestation. It makes the case to decisionmakers in rich countries that rewarding developing countries for protecting their forests is urgent, affordable, and achievable |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed January 02, 2017) |
| Subject |
Forest conservation.
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Forest conservation -- Tropics
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Forests and forestry -- Tropics
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Deforestation -- Prevention
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Climate change mitigation.
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Carbon sequestration
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Carbon sequestration
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Climate change mitigation
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Forest conservation
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Forests and forestry
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Tropics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Busch, Jonah.
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| ISBN |
9781933286860 |
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1933286865 |
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