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Measuring Abatement Potentials When Multiple Change Is Present: The Case Of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation In U.S. Agriculture And Forestry

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Uwe A. Schneider () (Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg)
Bruce A. McCarl

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Mathematical programming is used to examine the economic potential of greenhouse gas mitigation strategies in U.S. agriculture and forestry. Mitigation practices are entered into a spatially differentiated sector model and are jointly assessed with conventional agricultural production. Competition among practices is examined under a wide range of hypothetical carbon prices. Simulation results demonstrate a changing portfolio of mitigation strategies across carbon price. For lower prices preferred strategies involve soil and livestock options, higher prices, however, promote mainly afforestation and biofuel generation. Results demonstrate the sensitivity of individual strategy potentials to assumptions about alternative opportunities. Assessed impacts also include market shifts, regional strategy diversity, welfare distribution, and environmental co-effects.

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Paper provided by Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University in its series Working Papers with number FNU-23.

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Date of creation: Apr 2003
Date of revision: Apr 2002
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Keywords: Abatement Function; Agricultural Sector Model; Carbon Sequestration; Economic Potential; Greenhouse Gas Emission; Mathematical Programming; Multiple Technical Change; Policy Simulation;

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Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters

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