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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Are Agricultural Values a Reliable Guide in Determining Landowners’ Decisions to Create Carbon Forest Sinks?
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| Autores: |
Shaikh, Sabina L.
Sun, Lili
van Kooten, G. Cornelis
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| Data: |
2008-06-09
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| Ano: |
2005
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| Palavras-chave: |
Willingness to accept compensation for tree planting
Afforestation
Climate change
Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Q15
Q23
Q54
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| Resumo: |
This research examines the effects of various factors on farmer participation in agricultural tree plantations for economic, environmental, social and carbon-uptake purposes, and potential costs of sequestering carbon through afforestation in western Canada. Using data from a survey of landowners, a discrete choice random utility model is used to determine the probability of landowners’ participation and corresponding mean willingness to accept (WTA) compensation for a tree-planting program. WTA includes positive and negative benefits to landowners from planting trees, benefits not captured by foregone returns from agricultural activities on marginal land. Estimates of WTA are less than foregone returns, but even so average costs of creating carbon credits still exceed their projected value under a CO2-emissions trading scheme.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/37017
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| Relação: |
University of Victoria>Resource and Environmental Economics and Policy Analysis Research Group>Working Papers
REPA Working Paper
2005-09
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| Formato: |
33
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