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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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-priority uses such as agriculture. These plans have recently become widespread across EU southern basins. Shockingly, in some of … availability in agriculture that results from the decision rules of the recently approved DMPs. The methodology is applied to the …
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This article focuses on the economic valuation of alternative clam management practices in the Venice Lagoon. The proposed valuation method is characterized by the design of a survey questionnaire next to the fishermen population. In each questionnaire two fishing alternatives are described. The...
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We study an international climate agreement that assigns emission quotas to each participating country. Unlike the simplest models in the literature, we assume that abatement costs are affected by R&D activities undertaken in all firms in all countries, i.e. abatement technologies are...
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feasibility and implementation of a tradable permit system in irrigated agriculture. To this end, two distinct optimization models … source of irrigated agriculture. The derived time paths for water consumption and water availability illustrate the …
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economy. This might be happening already in many places with the modernization of irrigated agriculture, the world’s largest … irrigation techniques seem not to be contributing to reduce water scarcity and increase drought resiliency. In fact, according to … appear. This basic model is expected to serve as guidance for assessing the actual outcomes of increasing irrigation …
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China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...
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agriculture and water resources, and emphasis on underground resources. Our objective is mainly descriptive at this level …; nonetheless, we try to evaluate patterns of interaction between agriculture and water resources policy from the point of view of … analysis of the most important issues and ongoing policies. We show that the link between agriculture and groundwater is but …
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the human interventions in fields like: agriculture, land-use/land use change, construction/management of reservoirs … water allocation, irrigation policies, and climate change, among others water related issues. …
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Many nonmarket valuation models, such as the Ricardian model, have been estimated using cross sectional methods with a single year of data. Although multiple years of data should increase the robustness of such methods, repeated cross sections suggest the results are not stable. We argue that...
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