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Ethanol production, food and forests

Andrade de Sa, Saraly; Palmer, Charles; Engel, Stefanie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food … of direct land competition between rival uses increases deforestation and decreases food production. Second, an indirect … displacement of food production across regions, provoked by a shift in the price of food, increases deforestation and reduces the …

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Measuring neighbourhood air pollution: the case of Seattle's international district

Bassok, Alon; Hurvitz, Phil; Bae, C.-H. Christine; … - In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 53 (2010) 1, pp. 23-39

Current US regulatory air quality monitoring networks measure ambient levels of pollutants and cannot capture the effects of mobile sources at the micro-scale. Despite the fact that overall air quality has been getting better, more vulnerable populations (children, the elderly, minorities and...

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