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Recently the topic of global warming has become very popular. The literature has concentrated its attention on the evidence of such effect, either by detecting regime shifts or change points in time series. The majority of these methods are designed to find shifts in mean, but only few can do...
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The June 2017 issue of Science magazine laid out an extensive and comprehensive model for projecting the future cost of climate change for the United States of America. What the paper does not do, and which is the objective herein is to ask, what has climate change cost us so far? The paper...
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ecological agriculture was made. Economic efficiency has been estimated in terms of applying modern technology to the production …
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emissions. This has led the media, policy makers and the public to overlook industrial agriculture, one of the principal … contributors to global greenhouse emissions. Industrial agriculture – particularly industrial livestock activity – emits … oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4). In fact, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture far exceed those from transportation. Yet …
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Organization (FAO), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) produce long-term agricultural projections for key indicators of …
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The Hotelling rule argues that the price for a non-renewable resource adjusts to the shadow value of the resource, reflecting its remaining availability. This study provides an empirical test of this hypothesis. It investigates whether the price of crude oil does adjust to unexpected news about...
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Biofuels production has experienced rapid growth worldwide as one of several strategies to promote green energy economies. Indeed, climate change mitigation and energy security have been frequent rationales behind biofuel policies, but biofuels production could generate negative impacts, such as...
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