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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Environmental Amenities and Optimal Agricultural Land Use: The Case of Israel
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| Autores: |
Kan, Iddo
Haim, David
Rapaport-Rom, Mickey
Shechter, Mordechai
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| Data: |
2008-09-02
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| Ano: |
2008
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| Palavras-chave: |
Agricultural land use
Environmental amenities
Optimizing social welfare
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Q24
Q50
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| Resumo: |
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of changing land allocation among crops as a mechanism for increasing social welfare, where production profits and amenity benefits are augmented. A positive mathematical programming model is calibrated and applied to the northern part of Israel, using a crop-discriminating amenity-benefits function. Changes in land allocation increase social welfare by 2.4% nationwide, and by up to 15% on the regional level. Regional scale farming-profit losses amount to up to 6%. Due to the decreasing-return-to-scale nature of the amenity-benefits function, the inter-regional variability appears sensitive to the manner in which the country is divided into regions.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/42832
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| Relação: |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem>Department of Agricultural Economics and Management>Discussion Papers
Discussion Papers
9.08
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