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Climate change, Irrigation and Pests: Examining Heliothis in the Murray Darling Basin
Adamson, David - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2010
Helicoverpa spp. (heliothis) are a major insect pest of cotton, grains and horticulture in the Murray‐ Darling Basin. Climate change is likely to make conditions more favourable for heliothis. This could cause regional comparative advantages in irrigation systems to change as management costs...
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The Practicalities of Emissions Trading
Gans, Joshua; Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2007
In the past year, climate change has moved from political controversy to political consensus; at least, in relation for price-based policies the need to limit emissions. Uncertainties remain but with both major parties proposing to develop an emissions trading regime, it is timely to highlight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879324
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Declining inflows and more frequent droughts in the Murray-Darling Basin: climate change, impacts and adaptation
Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2007
It is likely that climate change will be associated with reductions in inflows of water to the Murray–Darling Basin In this paper, we analyse the effects of climate change in the Murray–Darling Basin, using a simulation model that incorporates a state-contingent representation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879341
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Stern and his critics on discounting and climate change
Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2007
This review will focus on the question of discounting. The paper begins with an outline of the expected utility model used in the Stern Review. Next, the question of ‘inherent discounting’, that is, the idea that future outcomes should be discounted simply because they are in the future, is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879344
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The impact of climate change on agriculture
Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2008
century, as a result of human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases. This note is a brief …
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The 2011 Basin Plan, Climate Change and the Buy-Back
Adamson, David - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2012
The long-term success of the Basin Plan and the Buy-Back will be judged by the capacity of the allocated public funding to deliver water to the environment, potable water supplies for the community and water for irrigation. Water property rights in the Murray-Darling Basin can be divided into...
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Climate Change - Predictions, Economic Consequences, and the Relevance of Environmental Kuznets Curves
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2012
Summarises some of the predicted natural consequences of increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the … the impacts of global warming on bio-industries and social conditions, the economic costs of greenhouse gas emissions and … of the relationship. For example, it is stressed that reducing the intensity of greenhouse gas emissions in relation to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010914942
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The Precautionary Principle Revisited: Its Interpretations and their Conservation Consequences
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2009
The precautionary principle was included in 1992 in the Rio Declaration on Environmental and Development and is a part of important international agreements and documents, for example, the Convention on Biological Diversity. Yet the interpretation of this principle is not straightforward as a...
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Global Warming and the Future of Pacific Island Countries
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2007
widely recognized following the Stern Report. International efforts, such as through the Kyoto Protocol, to reduce greenhouse … is predicted that a significant reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions is unlikely to be achieved in the … new technologies which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, payment for greenhouse gas emissions (for example …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474528
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Climate change and climate uncertainty in the Murray-Darling Basin
Adamson, David; Mallawaarachchi, Thilak; Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2007
It is likely that climate change will be associated with reductions in inflows of water to the Murray–Darling Basin In this paper, we analyse the effects of climate change in the Murray–Darling Basin, using a simulation model that incorporates a state-contingent representation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010910949