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Land Use Change and Ecosystem Valuation in North Georgia
Ngugi, Daniel; Mullen, Jeffrey D.; Bergstrom, John C. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
A model of land allocation at the aggregate watershed level was developed assuming profit/net benefit maximization under risk neutrality. The econometric land use model was analyzed as an equation by equation SURE model as all the independent variables were the same for both equations. In...
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Land Use Change and Ecosystem Valuation in North Georgia
Ngugi, Daniel; Mullen, Jeffrey D.; Bergstrom, John C. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009
This study seeks to forecast land use change in a North Georgia ecosystem, and estimate the economic value of the … ecosystem using benefit transfer techniques. We forecast land use change based on a structural time series model and a simple …. Conservation efforts are likely to cost less than the cost of defensive behavior or ecosystem restoration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005311015
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A Model of Agricultural Land Use, Costs, and Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay
Fleming, Patrick - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068766
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Economic and environmental impacts of implementing multiple agro-environmental policies in New Zealand
Daigneault, Adam; Greenhalgh, Suzie; Samarasinghe, Oshadhi - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Agricultural and forestry GHG emissions are a key feature of New Zealand’s emissions profile, and New Zealand is the only country, to date, to have indicated that agricultural and forestry emissions will be covered under their domestic climate policy – the New Zealand Emissions Trading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916176
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Modeling environmental risk and land management trade-offs in the Great Barrier Reef catchment
Mallawaarachchi, Thilak; Mazur, Kasia; Lawson, Kenton - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2007
We develop a catchment scale modeling framework to identify cost-effective strategies for joint onsite abatement and offsite mitigation of land-based pollution from agricultural activities that pose a risk to water quality in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). An illustrative example of the Barron...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004989455
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Land use change as an opportunity to decrease the consequences of extreme weather events : a case study of the Tisza Valley in Hungary
Eszlári, Nikolett; Marjainé Szerény, Zsuzsanna - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 14 (2014) 4, pp. 389-412
-value resources and just one of their functions in the ecosystem is flood regulation. This type of habitat is able to store excess …
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Global estimates of ecosystem service value and change : taking into account uncertainties in satellite-based land cover data
Song, Xiao-Peng - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 143 (2018), pp. 227-235
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867349
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Are investments to promote biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services aligned?
Polasky, Alan Stephen; Johnson, Kris; Keeler, Bonnie; … - In: Oxford review of economic policy 28 (2012) 1, pp. 139-163
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Benefit Transfer: Choice Experiment Results
Kerr, Geoffrey N.; Sharp, Basil M.H. - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2004
Benefit transfer entails using estimates of non-market values derived at one site as approximations to benefits at other sites. The method finds favour because it can be applied quickly and cheaply, however the validity of benefit transfer is frequently questioned. Published studies generally...
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