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Mitigation potential and cost in tropical forestry - relative role for agroforestry
Makundi, Willy R.; Sathaye, Jayant A. - 2009
This paper summarizes studies of carbon mitigation potential (MP) and costs of forestry options in seven developing … forestland for other uses such as agriculture and pasture. By using data on estimated carbon sequestration, emission avoidance … and potential area currently engaged in agriculture, but they pose unique challenges for carbon and cost accounting due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436333
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Index of harm: a measure for comparing occupational risk across industries
Solomon, K.A.; Abraham, S.C. - 2008
fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436578
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A Modern Tragedy of the Non-Commons: Agro-Industrial Change and Equity in Brazil's Babassu Palm Zone
May, Peter H. - 1986
use (chiefly pasture) conversion and technical change in both agriculture and babassu industries have redefined property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468356
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442826
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Optimal Timber Rotation on Multiple Stands with an Asymmetric Externality
Uchida, Emi - 2005
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/28/05.
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Forestry Economics: Principles and Practice
Campbell, H. - 1999
This review discusses bioeconomic models of the forest and uses them to explore policy options for forest management. The main type of bioeconomic model used is based on a biomass model of the growth of the forest, similar to the biomass model widely used in fishery economics. However a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447878
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Market impacts of hypothetical fuel treatment thinning programs on federal lands in the western United States.
Ince, Peter J.; Spelter, Henry; Skog, Kenneth E.; … - 2008
This paper addresses the economics of forest fuel thinning programs on federal lands in the U.S. West, and presents a model of regional timber and product market impacts. The issue of economics is vital to the debate about fire management, and this paper presents market implications of two...
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Market impacts of a multiyear mechanical fuel treatment program in the U.S.
Prestemon, Jeffrey P.; Abt, Karen L.; Huggett, Robert J. - 2008
We describe a two-stage model of global log and chip markets that evaluates the spatial and temporal economic effects of government-subsidized fire-related mechanical fuel treatment programs in the U.S. West and South. The first stage is a goal program that allocates subsidies according to fire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429453