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Dynamics of Indirect Land-Use Change: Empirical Evidence from Brazil

Sá, Saraly Andrade de; Palmer, Charles; Falco, Salvatore Di - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2013

. Unlike direct land conversion, indirect land-use changes affecting deforestation are not immediately observable. They require …

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Dynamics of indirect land-use change: Empirical evidence from Brazil

Andrade de Sá, Saraly; Palmer, Charles; di Falco, Salvatore - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 65 (2013) 3, pp. 377-393

. Unlike direct land conversion, indirect land-use changes affecting deforestation are not immediately observable. They require …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011043126

Dynamics of indirect land-use change : empirical evidence from Brazil

Andrade de Sá, Saraly; Palmer, Charles; Di Falco, Salvatore - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 65 (2013) 3, pp. 377-393

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Environmental Changes and Sustainable Development of Water Resources in the Himalayan Headwaters of India

Tiwari, Prakash; Joshi, Bhagwati - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 4, pp. 883-907

The nature of terrain imposes severe limitations on the scale of productive activities as well as on the efficiency of infrastructural facilities in the Indian Himalaya. As a result, biomass based subsistence agriculture constitutes the main source of rural livelihood. During the recent past,...

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A system dynamics approach to land use changes in agro-pastoral systems on the desert margins of Sahel

Rasmussen, Laura Vang; Rasmussen, Kjeld; Reenberg, Anette; … - In: Agricultural Systems 107 (2012) C, pp. 56-64

Land use changes in the Sahel are influenced by multiple socio-economic and bio-physical driving forces that result in … case study, we build a simple model that includes the most influential drivers of land use changes and their impacts in the …

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Assessing the Costs and Environmental Consequences of Agricultural Land Use Changes: A Site-Specific, Policy-Scale Modeling Approach.

Kling, Catherine Louise; Wu, JunJie; Adams, Richard M.; … - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), … - 2003

Assessing the Costs and Environmental Consequences of Agricultural Land Use Changes: A Site … ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF AGRICULTURAL LAND USE CHANGES: A SITE-SPECIFIC, POLICY-SCALE MODELING APPROACH Agriculture …. Possible land use changes include changing crops or rotations, altering management practices on cultivated lands, remov- ing …

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The influence of European Union single area payments and less favoured area payments on the Latvian landscape

Oļgerts, Nikodemus; Zanda, Penēze; Imants, Krūze; … - In: European Countryside 2 (2010) 1, pp. 25-41

At the end of the 20th century, following the collapse of centralised planned economy of the Soviet Union, the disintegration of collective type of agriculture and the restoration of lands to their pre-war owners, Latvia experienced widespread abandonment of agricultural lands and their gradual...

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The influence of European Union single area payments and less favoured area payments on the Latvian landscape

Nikodemus OÄ¼gerts; Simon, Bell; PenÄ“ze Zanda; … - In: European Countryside 2 (2010) 1, pp. 25-41

At the end of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, following the collapse of centralised planned economy of the Soviet Union, the disintegration of collective type of agriculture and the restoration of lands to their pre-war owners, Latvia experienced widespread abandonment of agricultural lands and their gradual...

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Flood Intensification due to Changes in Land Use

Saghafian, Bahram; Farazjoo, Hassan; Bozorgy, Babak; … - In: Water Resources Management 22 (2008) 8, pp. 1051-1067

roughness leading to higher flood discharges. This study aims at quantifying possible effects of land use changes and … return periods. The results showed that the impact of land use changes on the flood peak discharge is considerably greater in …

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Assessing the Costs and Environmental Consequences of Agricultural Land Use Changes: A Site-Specific, Policy-Scale Modeling Approach

Wu, JunJie; Adams, Richard M.; Kling, Catherine L.; … - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2003

The growth in federal conservation programs has created a need for policy modeling frameworks capable of measuring micro-level behavioral responses and macro-level landscape changes. This paper presents an empirical model that predicts crop choices, crop rotations, and conservation tillage...

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