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The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl : Short and Long-run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe
Hornbeck, Richard - 2009
The 1930's American Dust Bowl was an environmental catastrophe that greatly eroded sections of the Plains. Analyzing new data collected to identify low-, medium-, and high-erosion counties, the Dust Bowl is estimated to have immediately, substantially, and persistently reduced agricultural land...
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Geography and Agricultural Productivity : Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Plot-Level Data
Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2018
Why is agricultural productivity so low in poor countries relative to the rest of the world? Is it due to geography or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453184
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An evaluation of protected area policies in the European Union
Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - 2023
biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444040
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Ernährung, Nahrungsmittelmärkte und Landwirtschaft : ökonomische Fragestellungen vor dem Hintergrund der Globalisierung
Jäggi, Christian J. - 2018
Ernährung wird heute vor allem unter ernährungstechnischen, medizinisch-gesundheitlichen oder weltanschaulichen Aspekten (z.B. Vegetarianismus, Veganismus usw.) diskutiert. Obwohl die Nahrungsmittelindustrie einen der wichtigsten Märkte darstellt, werden Fragen der Nahrungsmittelproduktion,...
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The Effects of Land Markets on Resource Allocation and Agricultural Productivity
Chen, Chaoran - 2017
We assess the role of land markets on factor misallocation in Ethiopia--where land is owned by the state--by exploiting policy-driven variation in land rentals across time and space arising from a recent land certification reform. Our main finding from detailed micro data is that land rentals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453679
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Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development
Nkonya, Ephraim (ed.); Mirzabaev, Alisher (ed.);  … - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
degradation and halt biodiversity loss. …
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Technology agreements with heterogeneous countries
Hoel, Michael; Zeeuw, Aart de - 2014
For sufficiently low abatement costs many countries might undertake significant emission reductions even without any international agreement on emission reductions. We consider a situation where a coalition of countries does not cooperate on emission reductions but cooperates on the development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246011
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Product-Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS) : Improving Sustainability and Competitiveness in the Agri-Food Chain with Innovative Environmental Management Tools
Salomone, Roberta - 2013
agriculture by 2020: 50% reduction of waste and wastage; conservation of natural capital, biodiversity and ecosystem services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016701
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Economic analysis, sustainability and environmental commons
Musu, Ignazio - 2013
issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223360
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Coaseian biodiversity conservation : who benefits?
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2017
We consider a world economy, in which the global public good "biodiversity" is positively correlated with that share of …-to-pay for biodiversity conservation is positive in "rich" developed countries (North), but very low in "poor" developing … welfare when the North financially supports biodiversity conservation in the South - as stipulated in the Convention on …
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