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Climate Smart Agriculture
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license.The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and …
Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture
Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture identifies and structures more flexible economic incentives for the achievement of environmental …
Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy: Volume II
In its second volume, this book aims to link the academic research with development in the real world and provide a historical and institutional background that can enrich more …
Agricultural Globalization Trade and the Environment
The relative prosperity in U.S. agriculture that attended the passage of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 was followed by a general decline in U.S. …
Health and Animal Agriculture in Developing Countries
This book provides an overview of the state of animal agriculture and present methodologies and proposals to develop policies that result in sustainable and profitable animal …
Knowledge Generation and Technical Change
Knowledge generation and transfer mechanisms are being transformed in important and controversial ways. Investment in research and development has increased in response to …
Modern Agricultural and Resource Economics and Policy
This volume celebrates the life and career of Gordon Rausser, pioneer and leader in natural resource economics, while critically overviewing the emerging literature in the field. …
The Impacts of Biofuels on the Economy, Environment, and Poverty
Interest in biofuels began with oil shocks in the 1970’s, but the more rapid development and consumption of biofuel industry in recent years has been primarily driven by mandates, …
Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology
REGULATING AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: ECONOMICS AND POLICY Chapter 1 REGULATING AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Richard E. Just,* David Zilberman/ and Julian …
Economics of Water Resources The Contributions of Dan Yaron
Colleagues and friends of Dan Yaron submitted the following tributes. While each submission comes from an individual who knew Dan in a very different way, they all remark on his …
Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century
This is an open access book.This edited volume discusses topics in environmental economics with a focus on sustainability, conservation, and responsible resource management. …
Production of Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil
The success of Brazil in the large-scale production and use of fuel ethanol has been widely discussed and analyzed by other countries interested in adopting policies designed to …