Um dos mais marcantes fenômenos observados na economia agrícola brasileira nas últimas décadas, e de forma acelerada nos anos mais recentes, é o surgimento de novas fronteiras agrícolas. Sabe-se que um dos grandes problemas advindos do surgimento destas novas fronteiras agrícolas é a...

Farming systems throughout the Murray-Darling Basin are under increasing scrutiny from the perspective of ecological sustainability of farm and catchment systems. In northern Victoria, the dairy industry is a major user of water, and contributes to the environmental issues. Changes in irrigation...

We "translate" Hotelling's continuous-time, exhaustible resource extraction Model of 1931 into a linear program of present value extraction cost minimization subject to a stock endowment and period by period demand constraints. The appropriate form of the demand constraints allows for resource...