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This paper measures the economic impact of climate change on US agricultural land by estimating the effect of the … presumably random year-to-year variation in temperature and precipitation on agricultural profits. Using long-run climate change … predictions from the Hadley 2 Model, the preferred estimates indicate that climate change will lead to a $1.1 billion (2002$) or 3 …
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ecological/economic models with an emphasis on climate change. The advantage of this approach is that it introduces the reader to … a very important current research topic, but it also allows, by using climate as the reference ecosystem, the …
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I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I … variability. The climate effect is larger that the weather effect …
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The present research offers an economic assessment of climate change impacts on the four major crop families … characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80% of agricultural value added. The evaluation is performed shocking land …. Uncertainty on future climate is captured, using, as input, yield changes computed by a crop model, covering the whole range of …
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Ricardian (hedonic) analyses of the impact of climate change on farmland values typically assume additively separable … in the conventional manner, leading to predictions of climate change impacts which are significantly distorted …
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indirectly the cross-cutting ecological concerns foci of major global conventions: climate change, biodiversity, the combat of …
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The study proposes an agent-based model to investigate how adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) affects food … security. The analysis investigates the role of social and ecological pressures (i.e. community network, climate change and … capital, strong social networks and access to integrated food markets. The climate scenario simulations indicate that farmers …
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This paper analyzes the economic impacts of changes in water availability due to climate change. We develop a new …, precipitation changes, and unitary irrigation costs. Results suggest different economic consequences of climate change depending on …
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The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly …
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Agricultural sectors play a key role in the economics of climate change. Land as an input to agricultural production is …, freshwater availability and soil quality. Agriculture also plays an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. To … consistently investigate climate policy and future pathways for the economic and natural environment, a realistic representation of …
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