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Climate change and coconut plantations in India: Impacts and potential adaptation gains

Naresh Kumar, S.; Aggarwal, P.K. - In: Agricultural Systems 117 (2013) C, pp. 45-54

The assessment of impact of climate change on coconut, a plantation crop, is challenging. However, the development of a simulation model (InfoCrop-COCONUT) has enabled the process. We present the first simulation analysis of the potential impacts of climate change on coconut productivity in...

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Corruption and forest concessions

Amacher, Gregory S.; Ollikainen, Markku; Koskela, Erkki - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 63 (2012) 1, pp. 92-104

We examine how corruption impacts a central government's application of concession policy instruments consisting of royalty rates, concession size, environmentally sensitive logging levels, and enforcement. Harvesters have incentives to illegally log by taking more volume than is allowed, high...

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Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil

Martha, Geraldo B.; Alves, Eliseu; Contini, Elisio - In: Agricultural Systems 110 (2012) C, pp. 173-177

Increased food production can be achieved by incorporating more land into the productive process, by increasing productivity in already opened areas or by a combination of both strategies. By allowing a fraction of current pasture area to accommodate the expansion of food and biofuel crops...

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Do property rights promote investment but cause deforestation? Quasi-experimental evidence from Nicaragua

Liscow, Zachary D. - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 65 (2013) 2, pp. 241-261

Many policymakers argue that property rights decrease deforestation. Some theoretical papers also make this prediction … deforestation. The model, supported by the data, suggests a likely mechanism for this relationship: property rights increase … investment, increasing agricultural productivity and therefore the returns to deforestation. …

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Dynamics of indirect land-use change: Empirical evidence from Brazil

Andrade de Sá, Saraly; Palmer, Charles; di Falco, Salvatore - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 65 (2013) 3, pp. 377-393

The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land for this use …. Unlike direct land conversion, indirect land-use changes affecting deforestation are not immediately observable. They require … deforestation. This indirect land-use effect is shown to be a dynamic process materializing over 10–15 years. …

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‘Effortless Perfection:’ Do Chinese cities manipulate air pollution data?

Ghanem, Dalia; Zhang, Junjie - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 68 (2014) 2, pp. 203-225

This paper uses unique data on daily air pollution concentrations over the period 2001–2010 to test for manipulation in self-reported data by Chinese cities. First, we employ a discontinuity test to detect evidence consistent with data manipulation. Then, we propose a panel matching approach...

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The promise of Beijing: Evaluating the impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on air quality

Chen, Yuyu; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Kumar, Naresh; Shi, Guang - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 66 (2013) 3, pp. 424-443

To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using the officially reported air pollution index (API) from 2000 to 2009, we show that these measures improved the API of Beijing during and a little after the Games, but a significant...

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Air pollution and children's respiratory health: A cohort analysis

Beatty, Timothy K.M.; Shimshack, Jay P. - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 67 (2014) 1, pp. 39-57

This paper uses a large database of multiple birth cohorts to study relationships between air pollution exposure and non-infant children's respiratory health outcomes. We observe several years of early-life health treatments for hundreds of thousands of English children. Three distinct research...

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The private and social economics of bulk electricity storage

Carson, Richard T.; Novan, Kevin - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 66 (2013) 3, pp. 404-423

The ability to store excess intermittent renewable electricity is increasingly being seen as a key option for integrating large quantities of renewable capacity. However, intermittent energy sources currently account for very small amounts of total generation. Despite this fact, policymakers...

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Increasing ewe genetic fecundity improves whole-farm production and reduces greenhouse gas emissions intensities

Harrison, Matthew T.; Jackson, Tom; Cullen, Brendan R.; … - In: Agricultural Systems 131 (2014) C, pp. 23-33

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from livestock constitute the largest proportion of Australian agricultural GHG emissions, necessitating development of strategies for mitigating GHG emissions from the livestock sector. Here we simulate a self-replacing prime lamb enterprise to examine the effect...

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