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Climate Change, Water Scarcity in Agriculture and the Economy-Wide Impacts in a CGE Framework

Ponce, Roberto; Parrado, Ramiro; Stehr, Alejandra; … - 2016

, precipitation changes, and unitary irrigation costs. Results suggest different economic consequences of climate change depending on …

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A Modelling Framework for Addressing the Synergies between Global Conventions through Land Use Changes: Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity Conservation, Prevention of Land Degradat...

Ponce-Hernandez, Raul - 2007

This paper proposed a methodological framework for the assessment of carbon stocks and the development and identification of land use, land use change and land management scenarios, whereby enhancing carbon sequestration synergistically increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation...

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Estimating Ricardian models with panel data

Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - 2011

Many nonmarket valuation models, such as the Ricardian model, have been estimated using cross sectional methods with a single year of data. Although multiple years of data should increase the robustness of such methods, repeated cross sections suggest the results are not stable. We argue that...

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An Integrated Risk Assessment Model for the Implementation of Drought Insurance Markets in Spain

Pérez Blanco, Carlos Dionisio; Gómez, Carlos Mario - 2014

are tolerated by the authorities. Groundwater overexploitation for irrigation has created in these areas an unprecedented …

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Revealing the willingness to pay for income insurance in agriculture

Pérez-Blanco, Carlos Dionisio; Gómez, C. M. - 2015

A stable agricultural income is often regarded as a way to achieve a better environmental performance in this sector. However, conventional income stabilization tools have been showing recently signs of exhaustion. Under this critical juncture, EU institutions have encouraged the expansion of...

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Climate change and adaptation: The case of Nigerian agriculture

Bosello, Francesco; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio - 2013

agriculture is conducted. Adaptation practices considered are a mix of cheaper soft measures and more costly hard irrigation … characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80% of agricultural value added. The evaluation is performed shocking land … larger than one in all the climate regimes. Expensive irrigation expansion should however be applied on a much more limited …

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Assessing Climate Change Impacts: Agriculture

Bosello, Francesco; Zhang, Jian - 2005

The economy-wide implications of climate change on agricultural sectors in 2050 are estimated using a static computable general equilibrium model. Peculiar to this exercise is the coupling of the economic model with a climatic model forecasting temperature increase in the relevant year and with...

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Discounting environmental effects in project appraisal

Percoco, Marco - 2002

The aim of this paper is to present an alternative methodology for discounting far distant future externalities genereted by an investment project: time-declining discount rates. First I present the experimental evidence on individuals' time-inconsistency. Second I consider the theoretical...

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Environmental effects of consumption: An approach using DEA and cost sharing

Keiding, Hans - 2002

In the paper we propose an to evaluation of the environmental effects of consumption activities. The approach consists of two steps, namely (1) assignment of environmental effects to consumption activities, for which we propose to use the methods of (multidimensional) cost sharing, and (2) a...

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Integrating Brazilian national priorities and policies in global environmental issues

Seroa da Motta, Ronaldo - 1999

Adoption of climate change response options generates not only global carbon-saving benefits but also local externalities, here denominated as secondary benefits. So far funding for global warming response options, such as GEF, has discriminated against secondary benefits (SD) in their project...

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