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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463044
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Handbook on food : demand, supply, sustainability and security
Jha, Raghbendra (ed.); Gaiha, Raghav (ed.);  … - 2014
: monitoring food security in a volatile world / Derek Headey, Olivier Ecker, and Jean-Francois Trinh Tan -- 4. Food price … -- 17. Land degradation, water scarcity and sustainability / Manab Das ... [et al.] -- 18. Viability of small-scale farms in …-applicable insights for scholars and policy analysts seeking to understand the past, present and future of food around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851250
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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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EU agriculture under an import stop for food and feed
Thom, Ferike; Gocht, Alexander; Grethe, Harald - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 47 (2024) 5, pp. 2094-2121
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540723
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The impact of climate change on regional systems : a comprehensive analysis of California
Smith, Joel B. (contributor);  … - 2006
climate change. The contributors cover a broad array of climate change impacts on affected market sectors (including water … supply, agriculture, coastal resources, timber, and energy demand) as well as ecosystems and biodiversity. An integrated … hydrologic-agriculture model is developed to explore how the region would adapt to changes in water flows. Interactions between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851109
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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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Exporting an environmental performance : a firm-level productivity analysis
Galdeano Gómez, Emilio - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 33 (2010) 1, pp. 60-88
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Responding to climate change : global experiences and the Korean perspective
Hahn, Chin Hee (ed.); Lee, Sang-hyop (ed.);  … - Korea Development Institute; East West Center - 2012
This topical book explores the global experiences of responding to climate change, with perspectives from Australia, China, the European Union, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United States, as well as the International Energy Agency. The authors, internationally recognized specialists in the...
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Disputes in International Investment and Trade
Ossa, Ralph - 2020
International investment agreements employ dispute settlement procedures that differ markedly from their counterparts in trade agreements along three key dimensions: standing (i.e., the right to file grievances), the nature of the remedy, and the remedial period. In the state-to-state dispute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481969
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Global Climate Policy Architecture and Political Feasibility : Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations
Bosetti, Valentina - 2009
In pursuit of more aggressive environmental goals, we now advance the dates at which some countries are asked to begin cutting below BAU, within our framework. We also tinker with the values for the parameters in the formulas. The resulting target paths for emissions are run through the WITCH...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463133