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Modelling land use, land-use change, and forestry in climate change: A review of major approaches
Michetti, Melania - 2012
and shaped the role of land use, land-use change and forestry dynamics (LULUCF), making it an issue of global importance … focused on creating and expanding comprehensive global land-use datasets and on improving the modelling strategies allowing … for an extensive representation of the land-use system. However, this is a relatively new research field and the …
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Profiles of rural households in the North-East Development Region of Romania : case studies
Brumă, Ion Sebastian; Bohatereţ, Valentin Mihai; … - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 201-206). 2017
The rural household epitomizes the central socioeconomic unit of the vernacular village. The territorial resources, livestock and human capital shape the particular features of each place and zone. The present study relies upon field research, namely a questionnaire undertaken in 354 rural...
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The effect of off-farm employment on the decisions of households to rent out and rent in cultivated land in China
Huang, Jikun; Gao, Liangliang; Rozelle, Scott - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 1, pp. 5-17
Purpose – Developing nations need good cultivated land rental markets to foster rational resource use and to enhance … productivity and equity. Can cultivated land rental markets emerge in the face of rapidly developing off-farm labor markets? The … purpose of this paper is to measure the correlation between the emergence of off-farm employment and cultivated land rental in …
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Modelling Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry in Climate Change: A Review of Major Approaches
Michetti, Melania - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
and shaped the role of land use, land-use change and forestry dynamics (LULUCF), making it an issue of global importance … focused on creating and expanding comprehensive global land-use datasets and on improving the modelling strategies allowing … for an extensive representation of the land-use system. However, this is a relatively new research field and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555585
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Farmland Retirement's Impact on Rural Growth
Sullivan, Patrick; Hellerstein, Daniel; McGranahan, David A. - 2016
CRP is approaching its 20th year of operation. From its inception, concerns have been raised that by retiring millions of acres of cropland, the program could disadvantage farming communities already hard hit by farm sector consolidation and globalization. Clearly the CRP does not benefit...
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Property Rights and Power Across Rural Landscapes
Graham, Nicole G.; Shoemaker, Jessica A. - 2022
. Property choices impact how land and other resources are used (or conserved) and who has access to those resources (or who is … and transform the land itself. This chapter explores the relationship between legal reality and cultural experience across … made about land use and ownership in future. Reimagining property rights will involve a reckoning with the consequences of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306255
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Chapter 25 Agriculture and ecosystem services
Heal, Geoffrey M.; Small, Arthur A. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part A, …, (pp. 1341). 2002
A broad range of agriculture-environment interactions can be organized around the concept of agriculture as a producer and consumer of ecosystem services . Viewed as capital assets, ecosystems embody production technologies that are valuable, complex, and often poorly understood. The quantity...
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Using Degree Days to Value Farmland
Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert; Chonabayashi, Shun - 2015
Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...
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The Regional Self-Organizing Potential in Sustainable Agriculture: An Analysis of Co-operative Agreements on Nitrate Pollution by means of Rough Set Methods
Nijkamp, Peter; Oltmer, Katrin - 2004
This study addresses the achievements of cooperative agreements in sustainable agriculture policy. After an economic analysis of multi-actor choice situations, it focuses the attention on the self-organizing potential of regional market parties in order to comply with environmental policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325339
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Klimaschutz durch Biokohle in der deutschen Landwirtschaft: Potentiale und Kosten
Teichmann, Isabel - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 1/2, pp. 3-13
Seit einigen Jahren wird Biokohle - ein kohlenstoffreiches Produkt aus Biomasse - als eine viel versprechende Klimaschutzoption diskutiert. Insbesondere besteht die Möglichkeit, der Atmosphäre langfristig Kohlenstoffdioxid zu entziehen, indem Biokohle in den Boden eingearbeitet wird....
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