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fertilizer application. This study develops a dynamic economic model of stover harvest that permits conceptualization and … quantification of these potential tradeoffs. We parameterize our model based on publicly available studies of soil biophysical … sensitive and negatively linked to corn prices, which means that policies favoring the use of stover for biomass may be …
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susceptibility is now renewable and resistance could be reversed. Based on this method, it is plausible to predict that the optimal … model and introduce a real options approach originally used in financial analysis. We propose to view pest susceptibility as … ratio for released to natural pests, but then extend the model to allow for selection of a time-varying ratio. The cost of …
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results show that emissions should be measured on a per acre basis. Conventional agricultural life cycle assessments for … biofuels report carbon emissions on a per gallon basis, thereby ignoring the implications of land scarcity and implicitly …
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biofuels under various contracting scenarios. Results show that farmers are willing to grow biomass for bioenergy under …
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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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policies and the implications of these policies for GHG emissions over the 2007-2022 period. The policies considered here … include the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) by itself as well as combined with current biofuel tax credits or a carbon price … policy. We use a dynamic, spatial, multi-market equilibrium model, Biofuel and Environmental Policy Analysis Model (BEPAM …
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development of large-scale ethanol production. We use a dynamic conditional correlation multivariate GARCH model to demonstrate a … based on a structural VAR model. …
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) emissions reduction and carbon sequestration from terrestrial sources. Research has shown that biofuel expansion can alter … agricultural expansion, reduce current cultivation, and lower management intensity by incentivizing GHG emissions reduction and … detailed economic model of the U.S. AF sectors to simulate land management responses to biofuel expansion and GHG policies …
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