Real options analysis for land use management: Methods, application, and implications for policy

CM Regan, BA Bryan, JD Connor, WS Meyer… - Journal of environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Discounted cash flow analysis, including net present value is an established way to value
land use and management investments which accounts for the time-value of money …

Economic evaluation of Miscanthus production–A review

CP Witzel, R Finger - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the peer-reviewed literature dealing with the economics of Miscanthus
cultivation, to identify factors influencing the adoption of Miscanthus and to reveal …

Agroforestry versus farm mosaic systems–Comparing land-use efficiency, economic returns and risks under climate change effects

C Paul, M Weber, T Knoke - Science of the Total Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Increasing land-use conflicts call for the development of land-use systems that reconcile
agricultural production with the provisioning of multiple ecosystem services, including …

Feasibility evaluation of hybrid electric agricultural tractors based on life cycle cost analysis

M Beligoj, E Scolaro, L Alberti, M Renzi… - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a method to evaluate the economic feasibility of tractor powertrain
electrification based on life cycle cost analysis. For a parallel hybrid, the best combustion …

Nitrogen balances and nitrogen-use efficiency of different organic and conventional farming systems

HC Lin, JA Huber, G Gerl, KJ Hülsbergen - Nutrient Cycling in …, 2016 - Springer
Nitrogen (N) is the most important yield-limiting factor in agricultural systems, however, N
application can lead to emissions and environmental problems such as global warming (N 2 …

Pressures on soil functions from soil management in Germany. A foresight review

AK Techen, K Helming - Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2017 - Springer
Global trends in demand for biomass-based food, feed, energy, and fiber call for a
sustainable intensification of agricultural production. From the perspective of sustaining soil …

Economic evaluation of the production of perennial crops for energy purposes—A review

E Olba-Zięty, MJ Stolarski, M Krzyżaniak - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biomass is widely used for the production of renewable energy, which calls for an economic
evaluation of its generation. The aim of the present work was to review the literature …

Risk, risk aversion, and agricultural technology adoption─ A novel valuation method based on real options and inverse stochastic dominance

A Spiegel, W Britz, R Finger - Q Open, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Risk and risk preferences belong to the key determinants of investment-based technology
adoption in agriculture. We develop and apply a novel approach in which an inverse second …

Are short rotation coppices an economically interesting form of land use? A real options analysis

M Wolbert-Haverkamp, O Musshoff - Land Use Policy, 2014 - Elsevier
Short rotation coppice (SRC) is intensively discussed as being an economical and
ecological advantageous alternative to traditional agricultural land use. In various countries …

Climate change and the economics of biomass energy feedstocks in semi-arid agricultural landscapes: A spatially explicit real options analysis

CM Regan, JD Connor, RR Segaran, WS Meyer… - Journal of environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
The economics of establishing perennial species as renewable energy feedstocks has been
widely investigated as a climate change adapted diversification option for landholders …