Green Light for Green Agricultural Policies? An Analysis at Regional and Global Scales

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-19

  Pelikan, Janine ^a   Britz, Wolfgang ^b   Hertel, Thomas W ^c  

^a THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c Purdue University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Computable general equilibrium; EU agricultural policy; Regional intensification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921000979     PISSN: 0021857X     EISSN: 14779552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12065     Document Type: Article

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