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Climate change assessment and agriculture in general equilibrium models : alternative modeling strategies

Palatnik, Ruslana Rachel; Roson, Roberto - 2009

Agricultural sectors play a key role in the economics of climate change. Land as an input to agricultural production is one of the most important links between economy and the biosphere, representing a direct projection of human action on the natural environment. Agricultural management...

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Linking reduced deforestation and a global carbon market : impacts on costs, financial flows, and technological innovation

Bosetti, Valentina; Lubowski, Ruben N.; Golub, Alexander; … - 2009

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 and Forest Degradation (REDD) to a global market for...

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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...

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Using degree days to value farmland

Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert O.; … - 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...

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Afforestation and timber management compliance strategies in climate policy : a computable general equilibrium analysis

Michetti, Melania; Nunes Rosa, Renato - 2011

This paper analyzes the role of afforestation-reforestation and timber management activities, and their major and secondary economic effects in stabilizing climate during the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. In particular, with a Computable General Equilibrium framework, the ICES...

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Does green infrastructure work? : precipitation, protected areas, Floods and Landslides

Robalino, Juan David; Mullan, Katrina; Piaggio, Matías; … - 2023

We evaluate whether floods and landslides are more likely when rain falls inside versus outside protected areas (PAs). We use monthly municipality data for the period 2000-2015 in Guatemala and monthly district data for the period 1992-2019 in Costa Rica. We define relevant catchment areas using...

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The impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions : evidence from developing countries

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries. In this study we treat …. We contribute to the existing literature by examining the effect of urbanization, taking into account the presence of …, middle, and low-income countries, additional demographic variables, namely, urbanization, demonstrate a very different impact …

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The migration response to increasing temperatures

Cattaneo, Cristina; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

Climate change, especially the warming trend experienced by several countries, could affect agricultural productivity. As a consequence, rural incomes will change, and with them the incentives for people to remain in rural areas. Using data from 116 countries between 1960 and 2000, we analyze...

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Land conversion pace under uncertainty and irreversibility : too fast or too slow?

Di Corato, Luca; Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2011

In this paper stochastic dynamic programming is used to investigate land conversion decisions taken by a multitude of landholders under uncertainty about the value of environmental services and irreversible development. We study land conversion under competition on the market for agricultural...

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Land-use change and solar energy production : a real option approach

Gazheli, Ardjan; Di Corato, Luca - 2011

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...

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