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Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures

Ye, Liming; Tang, Huajun; Wu, Wenbin; Yang, Peng; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 8 (2014) 2014-1, pp. 1-39

Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as an overall indicator of food security under climate...

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Carbon emissions and cost benefit analyses

Mandell, Svante - 2013

New infrastructure projects may affect CO2 emissions and, thus, cost benefit analyses for these projects require a value to apply for CO2. This may be based on the marginal social cost of emissions or on the carbon price resulting from present and future policies. This paper argues that both...

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The Economics of Global Climate Change: A Historical Literature Review

Dobes, Leo; Jotzo, Frank; Stern, David I. - In: Review of Economics 65 (2014) 3, pp. 281-320

Abstract We review the literature on the economics of climate change with a focus on the evolution of the literature from some of the early classic papers to the latest contributions. We divide the paper into three main sections: trends in greenhouse gas emissions, mitigation, and adaptation.

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Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Domestic Policy Portfolios for Emissions Abatement in the Electricity Sector

Wanner, Brent - 2009

combination of policy instruments will be more economically efficient than any single strategy in order to correct for multiple …) to compare the cost-effectiveness of individual and combinations of policy instruments. Despite many of the parameter … policy instruments in terms of economic efficiency found in Fischer & Newell (2008). Beginning with the most cost …

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Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures

Ye, Liming; Tang, Huajun; Wu, Wenbin; Yang, Peng; … - 2013

Food security in China affects the livelihood and well-being of one-fifth of the world population. Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops...

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Chinese food security and climate change : agriculture futures

Ye, Liming; Tang, Huajun; Wu, Wenbin; Yang, Peng; … - 2014

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Tools and models to support water management in agriculture under policy and climate change : the Trebbia irrigation district experience

Bazzani, Guido Maria - In: Economics and policy of energy and the environment 55 (2013) 1, pp. 125-146

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Carbon emissions and cost benefit analyses : ITF/OECD 1st session of the Working Group on Assessment of Policies for Long-term Transition to Sustainable Transport ; Paris, 12-13 De...

Mandell, Svante - 2013

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Discounting, climate and sustainability

Moxnes, Erling - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 102 (2014), pp. 158-166

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Optimal environmental policy design in the presence of uncertainty and technology spillovers

Himmes, Patrick; Weber, Christoph - 2011

optimal policy design in a context with more than one externality while taking explicitly into account uncertainty surrounding … progress through R&D as well as learning-by-doing. A portfolio of three policy instruments is then needed to cope with the … of entrepreneurs. To illustrate the role of uncertainty for the practical choice of policy instruments, an em …

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