The key question addressed in this paper is: Does preservation of environmental quality inevitably conflict with economic growth? Concern for environmental protection in the dynamic context in the endogenous growth and environment literature has manifested itself almost exclusively in models...

Unprecedented challenges to agriculture — including population growth, climate change, energy scarcity, natural resources degradation and market globalization — underscore the need to rethink policies and institutions for crop production intensification. Models used for intensification in...