This paper broadens the scope of current theoretical studies, divides rural agriculture into two sectors--advanced and traditional, and takes into consideration the land factor and the urban informal sector. Under the assumption that wages in the advanced agricultural sector are higher than in...

As urban private capital enters the modern agriculture industry, it divides the agricultural sector into the modern sector and the traditional sector. This article establishes a general equilibrium model to study the economic impact of governmental policies aimed at promoting modern agriculture....

Impurities such as N2 and O2 can be co-injected with CO2 to cut the overall cost of carbon capture and geological storage by lowering the CO2 capture cost. However, only few field-scale studies have focused on the effect of these impurities, such as N2 and O2, with low solubility and a low...

The present paper establishes a two-sector general equilibrium model and conduct the comparative static approach to investigate the impact exerted by an increase in the remittance rate of the unskilled migrants on the skilled–unskilled wage inequality in the labor host region. We find that the...

In China, the ecological compensation mechanism (ECM) was initiated in the 1990s solely to address compensation for forest ecological benefits. For nearly 20 years, the ECM has been gradually applied to other areas. This study evaluates the current status, implementation procedures and existing...

Cost effectiveness of CO2 sequestration, especially into aquifers, strongly depends on the sequestration capacities and the routes to connect CO2 sequestration sites and recovery sites. This site dependency of CO2 sequestration makes its evaluation difficult. In order to evaluate the cost...

Japan has started a 5-year national R&D project titled ‘Underground Storage of Carbon Dioxide’ to reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. One of the targets of the project is to select a few preferred storage sites as candidates for large-scale demonstration tests in the next phase, and...