Using the simulation model Land Use in Rural New Zealand version 1 -climate (LURNZv1-climate), we simulate the effects of an agricultural land-use emissions charge and a reward for native forest and scrub regeneration. Our results are preliminary and at this stage should be considered...

Agriculture and forestry play an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. For an efficient and cost-effective climate policy it is therefore important to explicitly include land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) in economy-climate models. This paper gives an overview...

Climate forecasting has emerged as an adaptation option for agriculture to better cope with climate variability. We use a coupled climate-crop-economy modeling system to analyze the value of climate information (VOI) in Spain for the domestic agricultural sector and for international...

Appropriately implemented bioenergy could be a renewable source of energy contributing to fossil fuels substitution and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation in Mexico. This work explores eleven bioenergy options with environmentally sustainable biomass production potential. Mature and widely used...

Under social, temporal, spatial and resource constraints, household members interact and search for ways to fulfil household and individual needs, one of which is travelling together. Understanding the motivation for joint household travel and its effect on an individual’s mode choices is...

This study examined the effects of China’s grain subsidy program, the largest food self-sufficiency project of all developing countries, on grain-sown areas within the context of liquidity constraints. A large household-level panel was used to evaluate how the subsidy program affected the...

Since its insertion in the Italian tax system, the property tax has been intensely discussed by politicians and researchers. The latters have mainly focused on its distributional effects and impacts on yardstick competition and equity. To the author's knowledge, at least in Italy, none has...

Die Kulturlandschaft im Alpenraum war lange Zeit ein «Abfallprodukt» der Lebensmittelproduktion. Die Dynamiken der letzten Jahrzehnte haben zu einer Situation geführt, in der sich die gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen an die Landschaft hinsichtlich ihrer Erholungsfunktion, der Erhaltung von...

The urban heat environment in Nanjing metropolitan region is significantly affected by human activities. The days of high temperature and heat waves became increasingly obvious. Therefore, this paper aimed to reveal the temporal changes in high temperature and heat waves and analyze the relevant...

The present study aims to demonstrate the importance of digital data for investigating space–time dynamics of aggregated human activity in urban systems. Such dynamics can be monitored and modelled using data from mobile phone operators regarding mobile telephone usage. Using such an extensive...