New Zealand is about to implement the world's first "all sectors all gases" emissions trading scheme yet the country emits only 0.2% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions and not all the impacts of climate change on New Zealand are predicted to be negative. On the other hand New...

New Zealand is about to implement the world's first "all sectors all gases" emissions trading scheme yet the country emits only 0.2% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions and not all the impacts of climate change on New Zealand are predicted to be negative. On the other hand New...

Presentation by Lewis Evans at the Energy Roundtable Wellington on 8 September 2010.

Conventional forest valuation approaches do not account for discretions foresters have in making key irreversible decisions such as when and if to harvest in the light of uncertain future decision variables. Furthermore where they are sufficiently sophisticated as to make explicit forecasts of...

Richard Meade presented Climate changes stock-take and appraisal at The Journalists Training Organisation Courses hosted by Victoria University Continuing Education and Executive Development.

A growing body of research argues that early adverse experiences have lasting effects not only on later health outcomes, but also on human capital accumulation. This paper investigates the persistent effect of negative shocks early in life on children's health and cognitive outcomes, and...

The production of biomass for energy has emerged into a new, important market for agriculture in Germany. As climate protection remains the main objective for renewable energy production, the assessment and reduction of its environmental impacts are becoming increasingly important. This...

This paper investigates farmers’ response to climate change mitigation strategies in Swiss agriculture. It reports the results of a discriminant analysis carried out using data from a survey (n = 1’909) among farmers in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. Thereby, the main focus lies on...

In the context of climate change in developing countries, smallholder farmers need strategies and institutional support in order to adapt. The goal of this paper is to identify and analyze stakeholder networks in the agricultural sector of Côte d’Ivoire to evaluate the institutional support...

Crop yield levels and crop yield variability depend to a high extent on climate conditions. Due to climate change the local crop growth conditions in Switzerland are expected to change. This study addresses the question how weather, soil and management factors influenced mean wheat yield levels...