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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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Studying the sustainable use of ecosystem services under uncertainty requires the consideration of the stochastic dynamics of the system under study, risk and time preferences, risk management strategies and normative views pertaining to sustainability. To gather this information for an...
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We analyze a dynamic and stochastic ecological-economic model of grazing management in semi-arid rangelands. The non-equilibrium ecosystem is driven by stochastic precipitation. A risk averse farmer chooses a grazing management strategy under uncertainty such as to maximize expected utility from...
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The disappearance of Rwanda' forests and attendant change in climatic conditions prompted the government to explore clean energy alternatives such as biogas. Unlike at any other time in Rwanda's history, more and more Rwandans in rural areas are becoming owners of cattle because of Government of...
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range land is given rest depending on the actual rainfall in that year. In a first step we determine the farmer’s short …
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The paper develops a model that shares common features with the computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. It is used to address two questions. First, what are the future prospects of a green gross domestic product (GDP), should we be concerned for resource degradation or not, and to what...
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We analyze a dynamic and stochastic ecological-economic model of grazing management in semi-arid rangelands. The ecosystem is driven by stochastic precipitation. A risk averse farmer chooses a grazing management strategy under uncertainty such as to maximize expected utility from farming income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767397
The paper sketches the history of environmentalism by tracing the contours of the post industrialised world. The pantheistic relationship between man and nature was seriously compromised and their interaction became complicated by increasing inequality and poverty of the working classes and the...
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As the name indicates the common land resources (CLR) have “common access” to all and are used for various economic … gains. They include community land, community pastures, community forest, wildlife, wasteland, common dumping, threshing … reveals that there is a decrease in the common land resources during the last decade. The continuous decline in agricultural …
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identification of land use, land use change and land management scenarios, whereby enhancing carbon sequestration synergistically … increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation and food security through the increases in crop yields. The framework … carbon sinks, potential increases in plant diversity, measures to prevent land degradation and enhancements in food security …
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