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A Modelling Framework for Addressing the Synergies Between Global Conventions Through Land Use Changes : Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity Conservation, Prevention of Land Degradation and Food Security in Agricultural and Forested Lands in Developing Countries
Ponce-Hernandez, Raul - 2015
This paper proposed a methodological framework for the assessment of carbon stocks and the development and identification of land use, land use change and land management scenarios, whereby enhancing carbon sequestration synergistically increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation...
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Deforestation Rate in the Long-Run : The Case of Brazil
Di Corato, Luca; Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2017
In this article we study the long-run average rate of forest conversion in Brazil. Deforestation results from the … benefits plays a relevant role in deterring deforestation. We find that these benefits, if growing at a sufficiently high rate … deforestation. We indicate the Brazilian states where forests are expected to be saturated earlier. In this respect, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014125528
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Land-Use Change and Solar Energy Production : A Real Option Approach
Gazheli, Ardjan - 2015
In this paper a real option model is developed to examine the critical factors affecting the decision to lease agricultural land to a company installing a PV power plant. The leasing payment is certain while the net revenues from agriculture are uncertain. We identify the profit values at which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037301
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Farmland Investments in Africa : What's the Deal?
Di Corato, Luca - 2014
Large-scale foreign investments in African farmland are rising and may contribute to agricultural productivity growth and economic development. However, host countries sometimes have to wait longer for the economic benefits to arrive than initially expected. In this respect, the timing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057262
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Linking Reduced Deforestation and a Global Carbon Market : Impacts on Costs, Financial Flows, and Technological Innovation
Bosetti, Valentina - 2015
Discussions over tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at … national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from Deforestation …-energy-economy model with alternative cost estimates for reducing deforestation emissions in order to examine a global program for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039387
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The Conservation versus Production Trade-Off : Does Livestock Intensification Increase Deforestation? The Case of the Brazilian Amazon
Vale, Petterson - 2015
More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow … rising land productivity of cattle increase deforestation? I use secondary data and spatial econometrics to look for evidence … of a positive relation between cattle intensification and deforestation (‘rebound effect'). The reduced-form model I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026761
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Modeling Linkages between Climate Policy and Land Use : An Overview
Van der Werf, Edwin; Peterson, Sonja M. - 2007
Agriculture and forestry play an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. For an efficient and cost-effective climate policy it is therefore important to explicitly include land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) in economy-climate models. This paper gives an overview...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050196
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Using Degree Days to Value Farmland
Massetti, Emanuele - 2015
Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027653
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Optimal Soil Management and Environmental Policy
Lafforgue, Gilles; Oueslati, Walid - 2005
This paper studies the effects of environmental policy on the farmer's soil optimal management. We consider a dynamic economic model of soil erosion where the intensity use of inputs allows the farmer to control soil losses. Therefore, inputs use induces a pollution which is accentuated by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061857
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Modelling Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry in Climate Change : A Review of Major Approaches
Michetti, Melania - 2012
The rapid development of climate policies and the need to understand the dynamics of climate change have highlighted and shaped the role of land use, land-use change and forestry dynamics (LULUCF), making it an issue of global importance. As a consequence, LULUCF has become a central topic in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167163