Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 94,029
Cover Image
The Practicalities of Emissions Trading
Gans, Joshua; Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2007
In the past year, climate change has moved from political controversy to political consensus; at least, in relation for price-based policies the need to limit emissions. Uncertainties remain but with both major parties proposing to develop an emissions trading regime, it is timely to highlight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879324
Cover Image
Climate change, uncertainty and adaptation: the case of irrigated agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia
Quiggin, John; Adamson, David; Chambers, Sarah; … - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2010
Climate change is likely to have substantial effects on irrigated agriculture. Extreme climate events such as droughts are likely to become more common. These patterns are evident in median projections of climate change for the Murray–Darling Basin in Australia. Understanding climate change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010910954
Cover Image
Uncertainty and climate change policy
Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2008
The paper consists of a summary of the main sources of uncertainty about climate change, and a discussion of the major … implications for economic analysis and the formulation of climate policy. Uncertainty typically implies that the optimal policy is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010911018
Cover Image
Policy tradeoffs under risk of abrupt climate change
Tsur, Yaʿaḳov; Zemel, Amos - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 132 (2016) 2, pp. 46-55
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011702977
Cover Image
Environmental disasters and electoral cycle : an empirical analysis on floods and landslides in Italy
D'Amato, Alessio; Marin, Giovanni; Rampa, Andrea - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 74 (2019) 2, pp. 625-651
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138212
Cover Image
Economic Assessment of Selected Resource Management Techniques in Marginal Upland Agriculture: Integrated Report and Proceedings of a Workshop, held in Seoul, Korea, May 20-22, 199...
Stoltz, D.R. - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …
Economic Assessment of Selected Resource Management Techniques in Marginal Upland Agriculture, by Min-Jae Kim; Message of the Executive Secretary, United Nation Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, by Adrianus Moo; Opening Statement, by Sangwoo Park Opening Statement, by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005500504
Cover Image
CLIMATE CHANGE AND PRODUCTION RISK IN CHINESE AQUACULTURE
Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua - 2010
Drawing on the method developed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979), this paper separately analyzes the marginal contributions of both regular input factors and climate factors to mean output and to production risk in Chinese inland aquaculture. Furthermore, the net change in output following a 1°C...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442668
Cover Image
The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare
Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005
We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443715
Cover Image
Production Costs in Atlantic Fresh Fish Processing
Georgianna, Daniel L.; Hogan, William V. - 1986
Production costs for fresh Atlantic groundfish and scallop processing are examined using direct observation, linear regression analysis, and cost accounting. Assuming that management chooses a production technique where marginal costs are constant over a wide range of production due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444593
Cover Image
Taxes vs. Quotas for Regulating Fisheries Under Uncertainty: A Hybrid Discrete-Time Continuous-Time Model
Anderson, Eric E. - 1986
that adjustments to the level of the instrumentscan be made costlessly. However, with the presence of uncertainty, it is … others. How uncertainty affects the choice of instrument specifically in fishery management and in other dynamic optimization … the general literature on optimal instrument choice under uncertainty: which instrument performs most efficiently depends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444596