Cost-effective compensation to avoid carbon emissions from forest loss: An approach to consider price-quantity effects and risk-aversion

Ecological Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1139-1153

  Knoke, Thomas ^a   Steinbeis, Otto Emmanuel ^a   Bösch, Matthias ^a   Román Cuesta, Rosa María ^b   Burkhardt, Thomas ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^c Viale delle Terme di Caracalla ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon compensation; Endogeneity of tropical land use; Financial modeling of land use shares; Indirect land use change (iLUC); Land diversification; Risk aversion; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CARBON EMISSION; COMPENSATION SYSTEM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PASTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953747028     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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