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This paper develops an econometric model to explore the determinants of land use choices for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The model is not just capable of representing land use choices using large aggregation categories, but it also allocates agricultural area to the country relevant...
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Climate change and agriculture influence each other. The effects of climate change on agriculture seem to be predominantly negative, although studies show a large variation in impacts between crops and regions. To compensate for these effects, agriculture can either intensify or expand in area;...
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This paper discusses structure, impact, costs, and efficiency of renewable energy supply in the eight largest advanced economies (the G-7 plus Spain), with focus on Germany. Renewables production costs are compared to benefits, defined as reductions in net carbon emissions; technological...
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deforestation processes. A recurrent discussion involves what to do to reduce the deforestation process. A compensation to no-deforestation …
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equilibrium model of the world economy. The main results show that deforestation emissions in Brazil can be reduced at very low …, including actions to cut emissions from deforestation and agricultural production. We employ a dynamic-recursive general … carbon taxes on agricultural production indirectly reduce deforestation rates. However, directly cutting emissions from …
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The negative impacts of climate change have made poverty and deforestation topics of heightened interest within global … community discussions in recent years. Our study contributes to the debate over the links between poverty and deforestation by … there is a non-linear relationship between SWB, as well as other poverty proxies, and deforestation. We found that objective …
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This study estimates inter-fuel substitution elasticities and long-run substitution elasticities between energy and non-energy aggregate inputs used by production sectors in Malawi. All fuels are Morishima substitutes but there are significant sectoral variations in the magnitude of the...
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