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Basinwide water management: A spatial model

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Umetsu, Chieko - 2000

farmers switch from traditional to modern irrigation technology. …

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Input use and capacity constraint under uncertainty: The case of irrigation

Bontems, Philippe; Favard, Pascal - 2002

In this paper we consider a two periods model of cropping using irrigation. The farmer takes two kind of decisions, one … related to the level of investment in irrigation capacity and the other one to the irrigation level in each period. In the … period. Assuming a CARA utility function, we show that taxing the investment may entail an increase in preventive irrigation …

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Integrating climate policies in the European environment: A policy report

Carraro, Carlo; Goria, Alessandra - 1999

This report summarises the main ideas, proposals, scientific achievements, consensus and conflicting issues that emerged at the Second EFIEA Policy Workshop, held at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Palazzo delle Stelline, Corso Magenta 63, Milan, Italy, March 4th-6th, 1999. EFIEA, the European...

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Early crediting of emissions reduction: A panacea or Pandora's Box?

Michaelowa, Axel; Stronzik, Marcus - 1999

The Kyoto Protocol sets legally binding emission targets for industrialised countries without accounting for reductions carried out prior to 2008, the beginning of the first commitment period. There exists only one exception, the project-based Clean Development Mechanism where credits accrue...

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A signalling model of environmental overcompliance

Denicolò, Vincenzo - 2000

I model environmental overcompliance as a signalling device. In the model, a benevolent government may or may not tighten environmental standards. Production costs under the stricter environmental regulation are private information to the firms, and tightening environmental policy is socially...

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An economic drought management index to evaluate water institutions' performance under uncertainty and climate change

Iglesias, Eva; Garrido, Alberto; Gómez, Almudena - 2001

served by the supply system. An empirical application of EDMIs is performed for two irrigation districts in Andalusia …

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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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Growth, Congestion of Public Goods, and Second-Best Optimal Policy

Piras, Romano - 2004

This paper presents a general equilibrium endogenous growth model in which public spending is divided between public productive services and public consumption. A distinguishing feature of the model is the assumption that both components of public spending can be over used and, thus, congested...

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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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Modeling linkages between climate policy and land use: an overview

van der Werf, Edwin; Peterson, Sonja - 2007

Agriculture and forestry play an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. For an efficient and cost …

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