Helle Overgaard Larsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3729201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helle Overgaard Larsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helle Overgaard |
| FAMILY NAME | Larsen |
| SIGNATURE | LARSEN H O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9566-3848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Environmental Income as a Pathway Out of Poverty? Empirical Evidence on Asset Accumulation in Nepal
Using unique, environmentally augmented household panel data reflecting households’ annual cash and subsistence income portfolios, we model change over time in the value of four assets – livestock, implements, savings, and jewellery. A seemingly unrelated regression model reveals that although environmental resources on average contribute 16 per cent of the total household income, the contribution to asset accumulation is limited. Hence, environm…
Combining Household Income and Asset Data to Identify Livelihood Strategies and Their Dynamics
Current approaches to identifying and describing rural livelihood strategies, and household movements between strategies over time, in developing countries are imprecise. Here we: (i) present a new statistical quantitative approach combining income and asset data to identify household activity choice variables, characterise livelihood strategy clusters, and analyse movements between strategies, and (ii) apply the approach using an environmentally…
Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence on the True Local Welfare Costs of Forest Conservation in Madagascar: Are Discrete Choice Experiments a Valid ex ante Tool
Protected areas may impose local welfare costs through the enforcement of use restrictions. Predicting their welfare impacts before their establishment could help with the design of compensation schemes. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are increasingly used for ex ante evaluations but their validity is largely untested in low-income settings. Using a case study of a new REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) proje…
Environmental income improves household-level poverty assessments and dynamics
Environmental resources reduce income inequality and the prevalence, depth and severity of poverty in rural Nepal
Are Forest Incomes Sustainable? Firewood and Timber Extraction and Productivity in Community Managed Forests in Nepal
Who benefits from taxation of forest products in Nepal's community forests
People, plants and health: A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Changes in Medicinal Plant Consumption
BackgroundA large number of people in both developing and developed countries rely on medicinal plant products to maintain their health or treat illnesses. Available evidence suggests that medicinal plant consumption will remain stable or increase in the short to medium term. Knowledge on what factors determine medicinal plant consumption is, however, scattered across many disciplines, impeding, for example, systematic consideration of plant-base…
Collection and Use of Wild Edible Fungi in Nepal
Impact of Replanting on Regeneration of the Medicinal Plant Nardostachys grandiflora DC. (Valerianaceae)
Stakeholder Perspectives on Commercial Medicinal Plant Collection in Nepal: Poverty and Resource Degradation
The present article reports the results of a survey on the views of persons involved in commercial alpine medicinal and aromatic plant (MAP) exploitation and conservation in Nepal. Open-ended questionnaires were administered face to face to 175 respondents in the following categories: 1) collectors, 2) traders, 3) district forest office staff, 4) staff at the departmental and ministerial levels in the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, an…
Alpine medicinal plant trade and Himalayan mountain livelihood strategies
Commercial alpine medicinal plants are collected from the wild by local rural households throughout the Himalaya and sold in order to increase household incomes. Recent studies indicate that this annual trade amounts to thousands of tonnes of roots, rhizomes, tubers, leaves, etc., worth millions of US dollars. The main market is in India. Based on a national survey, including the most commonly traded species, and a village study this paper invest…
The non-timber forest policy process in Nepal: Actors, objectives and power
Alpine medicinal plant trade and Himalayan mountain livelihood strategies
Commercial alpine medicinal plants are collected from the wild by local rural households throughout the Himalaya and sold in order to increase household incomes. Recent studies indicate that this annual trade amounts to thousands of tonnes of roots, rhizomes, tubers, leaves, etc., worth millions of US dollars. The main market is in India. Based on a national survey, including the most commonly traded species, and a village study this paper invest…
People, plants and health: A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Changes in Medicinal Plant Consumption
BackgroundA large number of people in both developing and developed countries rely on medicinal plant products to maintain their health or treat illnesses. Available evidence suggests that medicinal plant consumption will remain stable or increase in the short to medium term. Knowledge on what factors determine medicinal plant consumption is, however, scattered across many disciplines, impeding, for example, systematic consideration of plant-base…
Are Forest Incomes Sustainable? Firewood and Timber Extraction and Productivity in Community Managed Forests in Nepal
Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence on the True Local Welfare Costs of Forest Conservation in Madagascar: Are Discrete Choice Experiments a Valid ex ante Tool
Protected areas may impose local welfare costs through the enforcement of use restrictions. Predicting their welfare impacts before their establishment could help with the design of compensation schemes. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are increasingly used for ex ante evaluations but their validity is largely untested in low-income settings. Using a case study of a new REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) proje…
Collection and Use of Wild Edible Fungi in Nepal
The non-timber forest policy process in Nepal: Actors, objectives and power
Environmental income improves household-level poverty assessments and dynamics
Who benefits from taxation of forest products in Nepal's community forests
The non-timber forest policy process in Nepal: Actors, objectives and power
Alpine medicinal plant trade and Himalayan mountain livelihood strategies
Commercial alpine medicinal plants are collected from the wild by local rural households throughout the Himalaya and sold in order to increase household incomes. Recent studies indicate that this annual trade amounts to thousands of tonnes of roots, rhizomes, tubers, leaves, etc., worth millions of US dollars. The main market is in India. Based on a national survey, including the most commonly traded species, and a village study this paper invest…
Stakeholder Perspectives on Commercial Medicinal Plant Collection in Nepal: Poverty and Resource Degradation
The present article reports the results of a survey on the views of persons involved in commercial alpine medicinal and aromatic plant (MAP) exploitation and conservation in Nepal. Open-ended questionnaires were administered face to face to 175 respondents in the following categories: 1) collectors, 2) traders, 3) district forest office staff, 4) staff at the departmental and ministerial levels in the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, an…
Impact of Replanting on Regeneration of the Medicinal Plant Nardostachys grandiflora DC. (Valerianaceae)
Collection and Use of Wild Edible Fungi in Nepal
People, plants and health: A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Changes in Medicinal Plant Consumption
BackgroundA large number of people in both developing and developed countries rely on medicinal plant products to maintain their health or treat illnesses. Available evidence suggests that medicinal plant consumption will remain stable or increase in the short to medium term. Knowledge on what factors determine medicinal plant consumption is, however, scattered across many disciplines, impeding, for example, systematic consideration of plant-base…
Who benefits from taxation of forest products in Nepal's community forests
Are Forest Incomes Sustainable? Firewood and Timber Extraction and Productivity in Community Managed Forests in Nepal
Environmental resources reduce income inequality and the prevalence, depth and severity of poverty in rural Nepal
Environmental income improves household-level poverty assessments and dynamics
Combining Household Income and Asset Data to Identify Livelihood Strategies and Their Dynamics
Current approaches to identifying and describing rural livelihood strategies, and household movements between strategies over time, in developing countries are imprecise. Here we: (i) present a new statistical quantitative approach combining income and asset data to identify household activity choice variables, characterise livelihood strategy clusters, and analyse movements between strategies, and (ii) apply the approach using an environmentally…
Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence on the True Local Welfare Costs of Forest Conservation in Madagascar: Are Discrete Choice Experiments a Valid ex ante Tool
Protected areas may impose local welfare costs through the enforcement of use restrictions. Predicting their welfare impacts before their establishment could help with the design of compensation schemes. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are increasingly used for ex ante evaluations but their validity is largely untested in low-income settings. Using a case study of a new REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) proje…
Environmental Income as a Pathway Out of Poverty? Empirical Evidence on Asset Accumulation in Nepal
Using unique, environmentally augmented household panel data reflecting households’ annual cash and subsistence income portfolios, we model change over time in the value of four assets – livestock, implements, savings, and jewellery. A seemingly unrelated regression model reveals that although environmental resources on average contribute 16 per cent of the total household income, the contribution to asset accumulation is limited. Hence, environm…
Economics (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Poverty (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Agroforestry (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (4 works)