Search Results - "Annual review of resource economics"

Meat Consumption and Sustainability by Parlasca, Martin C, Qaim, Matin

“…Meat has become a controversial topic in public debates, as it involves multiple sustainability dimensions. Here, we review global meat consumption trends and…”
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Environmental, Economic, and Social Consequences of the Oil Palm Boom by Qaim, Matin, Sibhatu, Kibrom T, Siregar, Hermanto, Grass, Ingo

“…Rising global demand for vegetable oil during the last few decades has led to a drastic increase in the land area under oil palm. Especially in Southeast Asia,…”
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Stranded Assets in the Transition to a Carbon-Free Economy by van der Ploeg, Frederick, Rezai, Armon

“…Assets in the fossil fuel industries are at risk of losing market value due to unanticipated breakthroughs in renewable technology and governments stepping up…”
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Payments for Environmental Services: Past Performance and Pending Potentials by Wunder, Sven, Börner, Jan, Ezzine-de-Blas, Driss, Feder, Sarah, Pagiola, Stefano

“…We develop a theory of change for payments for environmental services (PES) to review their imminent strengths and weaknesses in light of a growing body of…”
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The Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Policies and Programs by Börner, Jan, Schulz, Dario, Wunder, Sven, Pfaff, Alexander

“…The world's forests provide valuable contributions to people but continue to be threatened by agricultural expansion and other land uses. Counterfactual-based…”
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Climate Change and the Financial System by Monasterolo, Irene

“…The financial system could help achieve the global climate targets by aligning investments to sustainability. However, investors are largely exposed to…”
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Precision Farming at the Nexus of Agricultural Production and the Environment by Finger, Robert, Swinton, Scott M, El Benni, Nadja, Walter, Achim

“…Precision farming enables agricultural management decisions to be tailored spatially and temporally. Site-specific sensing, sampling, and managing allow…”
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Opportunities and Challenges for Big Data in Agricultural and Environmental Analysis by Weersink, Alfons, Fraser, Evan, Pannell, David, Duncan, Emily, Rotz, Sarah

“…Agriculture stands on the cusp of a digital revolution, and the same technologies that created the Internet and are transforming medicine are now being applied…”
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Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment by Meemken, Eva-Marie, Qaim, Matin

“…Organic agriculture is often perceived as more sustainable than conventional farming. We review the literature on this topic from a global perspective. In…”
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Regression Discontinuity in Time: Considerations for Empirical Applications by Hausman, Catherine, Rapson, David S

“…Recent empirical work in several economic fields, particularly environmental and energy economics, has adapted the regression discontinuity (RD) framework to…”
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Climate Econometrics by Hsiang, Solomon

“…Identifying the effect of climate on societies is central to understanding historical economic development, designing modern policies that react to climatic…”
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Economics of Aquaculture Policy and Regulation by Anderson, James L, Asche, Frank, Garlock, Taryn

“…Since the Blue Revolution began in the late 1960s, global aquaculture production has grown rapidly. Aquaculture now accounts for over half of the world's fish…”
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Index Insurance for Developing Country Agriculture: A Reassessment by Carter, Michael, de Janvry, Alain, Sadoulet, Elisabeth, Sarris, Alexandros

“…With uninsured risk representing a major hurdle to investment, productivity growth, and poverty reduction in developing country smallholder agriculture,…”
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Sustainability-Related Food Labels by Asioli, Daniele, Aschemann-Witzel, Jessica, Nayga, Rodolfo M

“…The past decades have seen the development of a multitude of sustainability-related food labels aimed at reducing the existing information asymmetry between…”
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Oil Price Shocks: Causes and Consequences by Kilian, Lutz

“…Research on oil markets conducted during the last decade has challenged long-held beliefs about the causes and consequences of oil price shocks. As the…”
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This Is Air: The "Nonhealth" Effects of Air Pollution by Aguilar-Gomez, Sandra, Dwyer, Holt, Graff Zivin, Joshua, Neidell, Matthew

“…A robust body of evidence shows that air pollution exposure is detrimental to health outcomes, often measured as deaths and hospitalizations. This literature…”
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Efficacy of Command-and-Control and Market-Based Environmental Regulation in Developing Countries by Blackman, Allen, Li, Zhengyan, Liu, Antung A

“…Like their counterparts in industrialized countries, environmental regulators in developing countries rely principally on two types of instruments:…”
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What Do We Know About Short- and Long-Term Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Pollution? by Currie, Janet, Zivin, Joshua Graff, Mullins, Jamie, Neidell, Matthew

“…Evidence shows that pollution exposure early in life is detrimental to near-term health, and an increasing body of evidence suggests that early-childhood…”
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Agroecology for a Sustainable Agriculture and Food System: From Local Solutions to Large-Scale Adoption by Ewert, Frank, Baatz, Roland, Finger, Robert

“…Agroecology is often considered as the ultimate and most comprehensive solution to the many challenges of the agricultural and food system, also referred to as…”
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Measuring the Bioeconomy: Economics and Policies by Wesseler, Justus, von Braun, Joachim

“…The emerging concept of bioeconomy offers several opportunities to address societal challenges. The bioeconomy is mainly driven by advances in microbiology,…”
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