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The opportunity cost of land use and the globabl potential for greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture and forestry

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2008

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Golub, A., Hertel, T., Lee, H.-L., Rose, S., and Sohngen, B., 2008, The opportunity cost of land use and the globabl potential for greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture and forestry: Center for Global Trade Analysis Project, 44 p.

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This paper analyzes the role of global land-use in determining potential greenhouse gas mitigation by land-based activities in agriculture and forestry. Land-based activities are responsible for over a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet the economics of land-use decisions have not been explicitly modeled in global mitigation studies. In this paper, we develop a new, general equilibrium framework which effectively captures the opportunity costs of land-use decisions in agriculture and forestry, thereby allowing us to analyze competition for heterogeneous land types across and within sectors and input substitution between land and other factors of production. In our analysis of carbon taxation, we find significant changes [...]

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