Climate Change and Future Land Use in the United States: An Economic Approach

Climate Change Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-51

  Haim, David ^a   Alig, Ralph J ^b   Plantinga, Andrew J ^a   Sohngen, Brent ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; Econometric models; land use; regional analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873174863     PISSN: 20100078     EISSN: 20100086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S2010007811000218     Document Type: Article

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