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Lin, Shanshan; Mullen, Jeffrey D.; Wetzstein, Michael - 2010

This study examines the interaction between insurance, credit and liquidityconstraints using a stochastic dynamic model. A risk averse farmer whoseobjective is to manage both production and market risk is assumed tomaximize the expected utility of life-time consumption by using both arearevenue...

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Solving the Non-Linear Dynamic Asset Allocation Problem: Effects of Arbitrary Stochastic Processes and Unsystematic Risk on the Super Efficient Portfolio Space

Dunbar, Kwamie - 2009

In this paper we propose a methodology that we believe improves the effectiveness of several common assumptions underlying Modern Portfolio Theory's dynamic optimization framework. The paper derives a general outline of a stochastic nonlinear-quadratic control for analyzing and solving a...

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Optimal Control of Spreading Biological Invasions: For How Long Should We Apply the Brake?

Carrasco, Luis Roman; MacLeod, Alan; Knight, John D.; … - 2009

Identifying the optimal switching point between different invasive alien species (IAS) management policies is a very complex task and policy makers are in need of modelling tools to assist them. In this paper we develop an optimal control bioeconomic model to estimate the type of optimal policy...

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GHG Mitigation Potential, Costs and Benefits in Global Forests: ADynamic Partial Equilibrium Approach

Sathaye, Jayant; Makundi, Willy; Dale, Larry; Chan, Peter; … - 2008

carbonemissions from deforestation, in response to six carbon price scenariosfrom 2000 to 2100. These carbon price scenarios cover a …-and short-rotation forestry, and the reduction of deforestation -- wereanalyzed using a global dynamic partial equilibrium model … early lead to earlier carbongain and vice versa, and avoided deforestation accounts for 51 to 78percent of modeled carbon …

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Desenvolvimento econômico e Desmatamento na Amazônia Legal: Uma Análise Econométrica

Gomes, Sergio Castro; Braga, Marcelo Jose - 2008

, environmental Kuznetsapplied to the relationship between the rate of deforestation in per capita income in the statesof Amazonia … Legal, besides analyzing the behavior of the rate of deforestation and populationdynamics in the period of 1990-2004. The … regression, the first isa function quadratic and cubic according to a function, where the rate of deforestation is thevariable …

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Comprehensive mitigation assessment process (COMAP) - Description and instruction manual

Makundi, Willy; Sathaye, Jayant - 2008

In order to prepare policies and plans to reduce GHG emissions, national policy-makers need information on the costs and benefits of different mitigation options in addition to their carbon implications. Policy-makers must weigh the costs, benefits, and impacts of climate change mitigation and...

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Class I cultural resource overview for oil shale and tar sands areas in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

O'Rourke, D.; Kullen, D.; Gierek, L.; Wescott, K.; Greby, M. - Environmental Science Division - 2008

In August 2005, the U.S. Congress enacted the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Public Law 109-58. In Section 369 of this Act, also known as the 'Oil Shale, Tar Sands, and Other Strategic Unconventional Fuels Act of 2005', Congress declared that oil shale and tar sands (and other unconventional fuels)...

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Development Of Regional Climate Mitigation Baseline For A DominantAgro-Ecological Zone Of Karnataka, India

Sudha, P.; Shubhashree, D.; Khan, H.; Hedge, G.T.; … - 2009

Setting a baseline for carbon stock changes in forest andland use sector mitigation projects is an essential step for assessingadditionality of the project. There are two approaches for settingbaselines namely, project-specific and regional baseline. This paperpresents the methodology adopted...

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Mitigation potential and cost in tropical forestry - relative role for agroforestry

Makundi, Willy R.; Sathaye, Jayant A. - 2009

This paper summarizes studies of carbon mitigation potential (MP) and costs of forestry options in seven developing countries with a focus on the role of agroforestry. A common methodological approach known as comprehensive mitigation assessment process (COMAP) was used in each study to estimate...

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Estimating Carbon Supply Curves for Global Forests and Other Land Uses April 2001, Discussion Paper 01-19

Sedjo, Roger; Sohngen, Brent; Mendelsohn, Robert - 2009

This study develops cumulative carbon ''supply curves'' for global forests utilizing a dynamic timber supply model for sequestration of forest carbon. Because the period of concern is the next century, and particular time points within that century, the curves are not traditional Marshallian...

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