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1 online resource (xviii, 158 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Directions in Development. Environmental and Sustainable Development |
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Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Environment and sustainable development
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| Contents |
C1; C2; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Author and Contributors; Abbreviations; Overview; Congo Basin Forests at a Glance; What Will Drive Deforestation in the Congo Basin? A Multisectoral Analysis; Boxes; Box O.1 Hunger in a Land of Plenty; Figures; Figure O.1 Land, Dense Forest, and Logging Areas in the Congo Basin; Tables; Table O.1.1 Key Development Indicators for Congo Basin Countries; Figure O.2 Average Annual Net Deforestation and Net Degradation Rates, Congo Basin, 1990-2000 and 2000-05; Box O.2 An Interactive Modeling and Awareness-Raising Exercise |
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Box O.3 Why Agricultural Productivity Increases Are Not Necessarily Good for ForestsFigure O.3 Channels of Transmission of Increase in Global Demand for Meat and Increase in Deforestation in Congo Basin; Figure O.4 Number of People Relying on the Traditional Use of Biomass; Box O.4 Feeding Cities: Mixing Charcoal and Cassava near Kinshasa; Box O.5 Road Work Ahead; Box O.6 Simulating Changes Resulting from Improved Infrastructure; How to Reconcile Growth and Forest Protection Policy Options and Recommendations?; Box O.7 Small-Scale and Artisanal Mining and Adverse Impacts on Environment |
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Box O.8 A Fair BaselineNote; References; Introduction; Note; Chapter 1 Congo Basin Forests: Description; The Forest Ecosystems in the Congo Basin; Map; Map 1.1 Forest Ecosystems in the Congo Basin and Their Biodiversity; Table 1.1 Area Estimates (ha) of Land-Cover Types for the Six Congo Basin Countries; Table 1.2 Carbon Stocks in the Congo Basin Forests, 1990-2010; Box 1.1 Variations in Forest Carbon Stocks: Key Concepts; Figure B1.1.1 Forest Degradation and Deforestation: Variation of Carbon Stocks in Above-Ground Biomass |
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Figure B1.1.2 Sustainable Forest Management: Variation of the Carbon Stocks in Above-Ground BiomassFigure B1.1.3 Forest Regeneration: Variation of the Carbon Stocks in Above-Ground Biomass; Figure 1.1 Total Land Area, Total Dense Forest Area, and Area under Industrial Logging Concessions in the Congo Basin in 2010 (hectares); Table 1.3 Harvested Timber Volume and Primary Species Logged by Country in 2006; Figure 1.2 Annual Round Wood Production (m3) in the Congo Basin Countries; Table 1.4 Contribution of the Forestry Sector to GDP and Gross Value Added, 2009 |
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Box 1.2 COMIFAC's "Plan de Convergence"Table 1.5 Direct Employment in Commercial Forest Production and Processing, 2006; Table 1.6 Forest Management in the Congo Basin Countries, 2005-2010; Deforestation and Forest Degradation; Box 1.3 European Union's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade Program; Figure 1.3 Contribution of Region to Humid Forest Loss across Regions; Figure 1.4 Changes in Forest Area in Main Regions in Africa on 1990-2010 period (in million hectares) |
| Summary |
The Congo Basin forests have been mainly "passively" protected by chronic political instability and conflict, poor infrastructure, and poor governance. Congo Basin countries thus still fit the profile of high forest cover/ low deforestation (HFLD) countries. However, there are signs that Congo Basin forests are under increasing pressure from a variety of sources, including mineral extraction, road development, agribusiness, and biofuels, in addition to subsistence agricultural expansion and charcoal collection. Congo Basin countries are now at a crossroad -- they are not yet locked into a development path that will necessarily come at high cost to forests. They need to find new ways of development that can simultaneously respond to the dual challenge of developing local economies and reducing poverty while limiting the negative impact of growth on the region's natural capital, and forests in particular. They can define a new path toward "forest-friendly" growth. The question is how to match economic change with smart measures and policy choices so that Congo Basin countries sustain and benefit from their extraordinary natural assets over the long term -- in other words how to "leapfrog" the traditional dip in forest cover usually observed in the forest transition curve. The report Deforestation Trends in the Congo Basin: Reconciling economic growth and forest protection is the output of a two-year exercise implemented by the World Bank at the request of the COMIFAC (Regional Commission in charge of Forestry in Central Africa) and the highly-forested countries in the Congo Basin (namely Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Republic of Congo). The study is informed by economic modeling complemented with sectoral analysis, as well as interactive simulations and workshop discussions. This study on Deforestation Trends in the Congo Basin: Reconciling economic growth and forest protection analyzes the current and future pressures exerted by different sectors of the economy on Congo Basin forests, and highlights policy options to limit deforestation while pursuing inclusive, green growth. Emerging environmental finance mechanisms, such as reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) under the climate change negotiations, may provide additional resources to help countries protect their forests. But there are already a number of "no-regret" actions that countries can take to grow along a sustainable development path |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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English |
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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (Program)
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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (Program) fast |
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Deforestation -- Economic aspects -- Africa, Central
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Forest protection -- Africa, Central
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Forest degradation -- Africa, Central
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Economic development -- Africa, Central
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
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NATURE -- Natural Resources.
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Deforestation -- Economic aspects
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Economic development
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Forest degradation
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Forest protection
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Central Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mosnier, Aline
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World Bank
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| LC no. |
2012048450 |
| ISBN |
9780821397787 |
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0821397788 |
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