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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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Farmer's perception on soil erosion in rainfed watershed areas of Telangana, India
Peddi, Dayakar; Kumar, K. S. Kavi - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149608
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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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Soil pollution diffusion in a spatial agricultural economy
Camacho, Carmen; Cornet, Alexandre - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268382
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On the water-energy-food nexus: is there multivariate convergence?
Bollino, Carlo Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio - 2021
This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for … desired levels according to the prescription of the SDG of per water, energy and food capita consumption is reached by each … accelerating effect on water convergence. In addition, investment, openness to foreign trade and inflow of foreign direct …
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Water and land stress in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru under coupled climate-socioeconomic scenarios
Feng, Kuishuang; Chen, Xiangjie - 2023
How to keep water and land stress within planetary boundaries is a major challenge for sustainable development in Latin … simulates future land and water demand for Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru under three climate-socioeconomic scenarios: SSP …1-RCP2.6, SSP2-RCP4.5, and SSP5-RCP8.5. Under all three scenarios, land and water demands in all four countries are …
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Compensation and cost of conservation payments for biodiversity
Minten, Bart (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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The value of biodiversity in economic decision making : applying the IEEM+ESM approach to conservation strategies in Colombia
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martín; Malek, Žiga; … - 2020
In this paper we evaluate the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of strategies for conserving Colombias rich natural capital endowment. Specifically, we consider Government program proposals for establishing Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), implementing more...
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Genetic diversity and interdependent crop choices in agriculture
Heal, Geoffrey; Walker, Brian H.; Levin, Simon Asher; … - 2002
The extent of genetic diversity in food crops is important as it affects the risk of attack by pathogens. A drop in diversity increases this risk. Farmers may not take this into account when making crop choices, leading to what from a social perspective is an inadequate level of diversity.
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