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Effects of Urbanization on Climate Change : Evidence From Bangladesh
Murshed, Muntasir - 2018
Urbanization is believed to be a driving force of an economy which facilitates the transfer of surpluslabor from the rural agricultural sector to the urban industrial sector and contributes to economic development. However, unplanned urbanization can at times boomerang, exerting negative impacts...
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Carbon Accounting by Public and Private Financial Institutions : Can We Be Sure Climate Finance Is Leading to Emissions Reductions?
Spittle, Emily; Dietrich Brauch, Martin - 2021
As reporting GHG emissions becomes mandatory in the financial sector, the methods by which emissions are calculated will grow in importance for their impact on the resulting metric. Progress is underway in both the public and private financial sectors to embed emissions accounting standards, but...
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The impact of pesticides and dry residual biomass on the ecological footprints in OECD countries
Razzak, Janjua Laeeq; Gani, Osmani Md Ataul - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 199-206). 2022
The present study explores the impacts of pesticide usage and burned biomass on the ecological footprints in OECD … heteroskesedasticity and autocorrelation. In both estimations, the results find that pesticide usage and burned biomass have positive and … significant impacts on the ecological footprints of OECD countries but in particular pesticide usage has stronger effect in …
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Sea-level rise, groundwater quality, and the impacts on coastal homeowners
Guignet, Dennis; Morgan, Owen Ashton; Landry, Craig; … - 2024 - Last revised: March 10, 2024
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Nutrient Pollution and U.S. Agriculture : Causal Effects, Integrated Assessment, and Implications of Climate Change
Metaxoglou, Konstantinos; Smith, Aaron D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the relationship between water nutrient pollution and U.S. agriculture using data between the early 1970s and late 2010s. We estimate a positive causal effect of corn acreage on nitrogen concentration in the country's water bodies using alternative empirical approaches. We find that a...
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Climate Change and Downstream Water Quality in Agricultural Production : The Case of Nutrient Runoff to the Gulf of Mexico
Elbakidze, Levan; Xu, Yuelu; Gassman, Philip W.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Nitrogen (N) fertilizer use in agricultural production is a significant determinant of surface water quality. As climate changes, agricultural producers are likely to adapt at extensive and intensive margins in terms of land and per acre input use, including fertilizers. These changes can affect...
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Climate Variability, Rice Production and Groundwater Depletion in India, Environmental Research Letters
Bhargava, Alok - 2018
This paper modeled the proximate determinants of rice outputs and groundwater depths in 27 Indian states during 1980 … with population increases. Second, groundwater depths were positively associated with temperatures and negatively with … rainfall levels and there were nonlinear effects of population changes. Third, dynamic models for in situ groundwater depths in …
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The impact of weather variability and climate change on pesticide applications in the US - An empirical investigation
Koleva, Nikolinka G.; Schneider, Uwe a; Tol, Richard S.J. - Forschungsstelle Nachhaltige Umweltentwicklung (ZMK), …
projection results vary by crop, region, and pesticide. …
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Impact of rainfall variability on groundwater levels in Ruiru municipality, Kenya
Nyakundi, R .M.; Makokha, M.; Mwangi, J. K.; Obiero, C. - In: African journal of science, technology, innovation & … 7 (2015) 5/6, pp. 329-335
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A nonparametric approach for evaluating long-term energy policy scenarios: An application to the Greek energy system
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos G.; Tzeremes, … - In: Journal of Economic Structures 4 (2015), pp. 1-14
This paper by using Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP) constructs four different renewable energy scenarios for the Greek transport, energy, and industry sectors. By projecting the demand for renewable energy and the associated resulting carbon dioxide emissions up to the...
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