The pressure on land as required input in competing uses fuelled research on trade-offs in land use due to agricultural land expansion to meet food demand which is explicitly and implicitly treated in global land use modelling. Global land use studies rely on assessing the trade-offs by assuming...

Increased future demands for food, fibre and fuels from biomass can only be met if the available land and water resources on a global scale are used and managed as efficiently as possible. The main routes for making the global agricultural system more productive are through intensification and...

Until 2050, the global population is projected to reach almost 9 billion people resulting in a rising demand and competition for biomass used as food, feed, raw material and bio-energy, while land and water resources are limited. Moreover, agricultural production will be constrained by the need...

Ökologie und Klimaschutz sind in aller Munde. Die politischen Parteien in Deutschland und anderswo sind sich weitgehend einig. Die Marktwirtschaft soll "„ökologisch"“ sein. Für Ökonomen ist dies Problem zumindest theoretisch ziemlich trivial. Die Emission von Klimagasen ist eine negative...

Ökologie und Klimaschutz sind in aller Munde. Die politischen Parteien in Deutschland und anderswo sind sich weitgehend einig. Die Marktwirtschaft soll "ökologisch" sein. Für Ökonomen ist dies Problem zumindest theoretisch ziemlich trivial. Die Emission von Klimagasen ist eine negative...

International pollution poses special problems for economic analysis. National governments can, in principle, be successful in improving environmental quality when the sources of pollution are located within the government's jurisdiction. This is not possible, however, when pollution originates...

"Economic Reform and Agricultural Trade in Central and Eastern Europe" and "Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation: Win-Win or Lose-Lose?"

The main objective of the paper is to study the importance of regional preferences in financing agri-environmental programs. The analysis is based on results of a case study conducted in South-eastern Poland. As environmental protection in agriculture is complex and often considered in political...