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Environmental economic geography: Recent advances and innovative development

Geography and Sustainability, 2022
Modern environmental problems are the result of human-environment interaction in the process of industrialization. The relationship between economic development and environmental quality is an important aspect of understanding human-environment ...
Canfei He, Shuqi He, Enyi Mu, Jian Peng
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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich, Tim Ölkers, Vanessa Bonke, Oliver Musshoff   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incorporating Building Morphology Data to Improve Urban Land Use Mapping: A Case Study of Shenzhen

Remote Sensing
Accurate urban land use classification is vital for urban planning, resource allocation, and sustainable management. Traditional remote sensing methods struggle with fine-grained classification and spatial structure identification, while socio-economic ...
Jiapeng Zhang, Fujun Song, Yimin Wang, Tuo Chen, Xuecao Li, Xiayu Tang, Tengyun Hu, Siyao Zhou, Han Liu, Jiaqi Wang, Mo Su   +10 more
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Applying the FFP Approach to Wider Land Management Functions

Land, 2021
The initial focus of implementing the Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration (FFPLA) methodology was to address the significant, global security of tenure divide.
Kathrine Kelm, Sarah Antos, Robin McLaren   +2 more
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Bringing nature back into cities: urban land environments, indigenous cover and urban restoration [PDF]

, 2007
1. The restoration of urban ecosystems is an increasingly important strategy to maintain and enhance indigenous biodiversity as well as reconnecting people to the environment.
Brabyn, Lars, Clarkson, Bruce D., Wehi, Priscilla M.   +2 more
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Matthew H. Langholtz, Chad M. Hellwinckel   +2 more
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Tax Policy and Farm Organization

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced substantial changes to the tax code, affecting farms' organizational incentives. This study examines farms' responses to the TCJA along extensive and intensive margins, focusing on organizational and labor expense adjustments.
Tia M. McDonald, Katherine Lacy
wiley   +1 more source

Subjective social integration and its spatially varying determinants of rural-to-urban migrants among Chinese cities

Scientific Reports
Social integration, a huge issue triggered by migration, leads to potential social fragmentation and confrontation. Focusing on the precise enhancement of "inner" subjective social integration is the ultimate urbanization solution to enhance people ...
Qilong Chen, Chengxiang Wang, Pinrong He, Anning Cai   +3 more
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Evaluating the Variability of Urban Land Surface Temperatures Using Drone Observations [PDF]

, 2019
Urbanization and climate change are driving increases in urban land surface temperatures that pose a threat to human and environmental health. To address this challenge, we must be able to observe land surface temperatures within spatially complex urban ...
McDonald, Walter M., Naughton, Joseph
core   +1 more source