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We evaluate incentives of forest landowners for sequestering and trading carbon, given the risk of carbon loss from … hurricanes, and an opportunity to insure their losses. Results of simulation model reveal that the effect of hurricane risk … depends on the variability of returns from carbon and timber and landowners' ability to mitigate risk by diversifying forest …
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To help inform pollution control policies in the Indian electricity sector we estimate the health damages associated …
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The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are promoting point/nonpoint trading as a way of reducing the costs of meeting water quality goals while giving nonpoint sources a larger role in meeting those goals. Farms can create offsets or credits in a...
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feasibility for dairy farms to convert cow manure into electricity via anaerobic methane digestion. The study confirms that it is … technically feasible to convert cow manure to electricity on dairy farms but the economic returns highly depend on the base … electricity price paid by CVPS, premium rate paid by CVPS customers, financial supports from government agencies and other …
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study examined how energy source and generation proximity influence consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for electricity … plant). We also seek to determine how residents’ proximity to a hypothetical electricity generation facility (wind farm or … natural gas generation source) influences their WTP for renewable and alternative electricity. Results showed that the sampled …
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State policy incentives for solar power have grown significantly in the past several years. This paper uses county level panel data to investigate whether state policy incentives are effective in increasing residential solar PV capacity. Empirical findings show that tax incentives, rebates,...
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Several studies in the recent past have offered a contrasting and wide range of perspectives on economic and environmental implications of biofuels. In this study we develop a comprehensive and consistent framework for analyzing the global economic interactions and the direct and indirect...
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Food and energy security have increasingly acquired key natural resource policy focus. As alternative energy solutions become more land intensive, the potential implication to the agricultural sector becomes of policy interest. This study investigated the impact of projected wind energy...
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This research work uses an alternative approach for modeling agricultural greenhouse gas emissions as an undesirable output, based on the zero sum gains DEA model (ZSG-DEA BCC model). This approach reallocates agricultural greenhouse gas emissions among EU15 countries. The reallocation analysis...
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