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Tackling the problem of ecosystem services degradation is an important policy challenge. Different types of economic instruments have been employed by conservation agencies to meet this challenge. Notable among them are Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes that pay private landowners to...
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carbon offset provision and ability of adaptation to mitigate the production cost impact under a cap-and-trade climate policy … acreage enrollment in carbon offset provision, carbon offset supplies and revenues, the production cost impacts of carbon … increases with carbon prices; 2) with the fertilizer industry exempted from cap-and-trade regulation, the production cost …
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. This is because production of feedstock in developing countries is relatively intensive in the use of unskilled rural labor …
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the production of biofuels the appraisal of biofuels as an effective instrument to slow down climate change and reduce … biofuel production is still not given in most European countries, support policies are essential to achieve this target … production will be, on the one hand, partially compensated by substitution effects on the feed market and, on the other hand …
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We develop a two-stage, multinomial logit model of UK land use to investigate the impact of policychanges upon agriculture. The model utilizes a large panel database covering the entirety of Englandand Wales for 14 years between 1969 and 2004 integrated with the economic and physicalenvironment...
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The MODERE, the Ministry of the Environment Irrigation Decision Model, is a simulation tool whichuses mathematical programming methods to reveal the implicit multiattribute objective function lyingbehind the observed cropping decision. The model takes different criteria such as profit...
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theEuropean agricultural sector is developed and applied which covers the production of and demand forbiofuels. Two policy …. Especiallyafter the implementation of a potential Doha agreement, EU production of bioethanol stronglydecreases, while almost all …
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A binary choice model was used to identify the attributes that influence irrigation district adoption of conservation rate structures. Using principles of rate design and irrigation district administration as a framework, measures of irrigation district rate structure objectives and physical and...
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Benefit transfer entails using estimates of non-market values derived at one site as approximations to benefits at other sites. The method finds favour because it can be applied quickly and cheaply, however the validity of benefit transfer is frequently questioned. Published studies generally...
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