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This paper examines the extensive and intensive margin changes in land use in the U.S. likely to be induced by biofuel 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...
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There have long been concerns that federal crop insurance subsidies may significantly impact land use decisions. It is well known that classical insurance market information asymmetry problems can lead to a social excess of risky land entering crop production. Our conceptual model shows that the...
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application of nitrogen for production of switchgrass and corn planted in the University of Tennessee Research and Education … end of the planning horizon. A quadratic yield response function is used to model corn and switchgrass response to … is the sum of applied nitrogen and the nitrogen of carryover less the amount of nitrogen leaving the field. Switchgrass …
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In rapidly suburbanizing areas, minimum lot sizes of ten acres or greater are often used to discourage residential development and to maintain agricultural critical mass. Because of significant development pressure in these places, there is a good chance these lot size regulations will bind....
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other crops and pasture that is not replaced, which suggests some intensification in land use. The lower land expansion … the expansion in sugarcane area occurs at the expense of pasture area, which implied land intensification of beef … of pasture or stocking rate) releases area that can be used for crops. In scenario three, we find that larger ethanol …
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Scientists predict that global warming will cause suitable habitat ranges to shift for many plant species, including blue oak in California. If proximity to particular land cover types significantly affects human welfare, any such shifts will affect household welfare, resulting in an indirect...
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Among multiple slippage effects potentially generated in voluntary land retirement programs, this study attempts to identify one unique source of slippage. Specifically, I examine slippage caused by within-a-farm land conversion from uncultivated land to cropland. With the U.S. Agricultural...
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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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