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deforestation in return for a payment for avoided releases of carbon into the atmosphere. Simulation was done from 1975 to 2100 … deforestation proceeding at high rates, leading to decreasing provision of forest goods and services and increasing economic growth … incentive to land owners to reduce deforestation, higher prices for avoided carbon emissions would have to be set than current …
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This paper adapts a generalized expected utility (GEU) maximization model (Epstein and Zin, 1989 and 1991) to examine the intertemporal risk management of wheat producers in the Pacific Northwest. Optimization results based on simulated data indicate the feasibility of the GEU optimization as a...
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Identifying the optimal switching point between different invasive alien species (IAS) management policies is a very complex task and policy makers are in need of modelling tools to assist them. In this paper we develop an optimal control bioeconomic model to estimate the type of optimal policy...
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This study examines the interaction between insurance, credit and liquidityconstraints using a stochastic dynamic model. A risk averse farmer whoseobjective is to manage both production and market risk is assumed tomaximize the expected utility of life-time consumption by using both arearevenue...
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This dissertation provides a thorough analysis of the costs associated with, andefficacy of, sequential license buyback auctions. I use data from the Texas ShrimpLicense Buyback Program - a sequential license buyback auction - to estimate theeffects of a repeated game set-up on bidding behavior....
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In this paper we propose a methodology that we believe improves the effectiveness of several common assumptions underlying Modern Portfolio Theory's dynamic optimization framework. The paper derives a general outline of a stochastic nonlinear-quadratic control for analyzing and solving a...
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carbonemissions from deforestation, in response to six carbon price scenariosfrom 2000 to 2100. These carbon price scenarios cover a …-and short-rotation forestry, and the reduction of deforestation -- wereanalyzed using a global dynamic partial equilibrium model … early lead to earlier carbongain and vice versa, and avoided deforestation accounts for 51 to 78percent of modeled carbon …
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, environmental Kuznetsapplied to the relationship between the rate of deforestation in per capita income in the statesof Amazonia … Legal, besides analyzing the behavior of the rate of deforestation and populationdynamics in the period of 1990-2004. The … regression, the first isa function quadratic and cubic according to a function, where the rate of deforestation is thevariable …
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The availability of basic assets influences peasants’ economic behavior, their livelihood diversification strategies and their responses to land degradation. In addition, when pressed by economic hardships households can also expected to work more than better off ones. Whether this implies more...
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paper frames the issues in terms of avoiding deforestation but the results are applicable to any voluntary offset program. …
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