Recent studies that incorporate the spatial distributions of biological benefits and economic
costs in conservation planning have shown that limited budgets can achieve substantially …

Quantitative assessment of Canada's boreal forest mitigation potential is not yet possible,
though the range of mitigation activities is known, requirements for sound analyses of …

This paper measures the economic impact of climate change on US agricultural land by
estimating the effect of random year-to-year variation in temperature and precipitation on …

There has been a lively debate about the potential impact of global climate change on US
agriculture. Most of the early agroeconomic studies predicted large damages (see, for …

The justification and targeting of conservation policy rests on reliable measures of public
and private benefits from competing land uses. Advances in Earth system observation and …

We use the geo-referenced June Agricultural Survey of the US Department of Agriculture to
match values of individual farms in California with a measure of water availability as …

The Ricardian approach is a popular hedonic method for analyzing climate change impacts
on agriculture. The approach typically relies on a cross‐sectional regression of farmland …

A hedonic model of Illinois farmland values is estimated using county‐level cross‐section
time‐series data. Explanatory variables include land productivity, parcel size, improvements …

Flooding is the costliest form of natural disaster and impacts are expected to increase, in
part, due to exposure of new development to flooding. However, these costs could be …

Recent growth in many African countries has been accompanied by rapid urbanization,
which could have major impacts on rural livelihoods. This paper examines patterns of rural …