Economic analysis of land use in global climate change policy

Land has long been overlooked in economics. That is now changing. A substantial part of the solution to the climate crisis may lie in growing crops for fuel and using trees for storing carbon. This book investigates the potential of these options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, estimates the costs to the economy, and analyses the trade-offs with growing food. The first part presents new databases that are necessary to underpin policy-relevant research in the field of climate change while describing and critically assessing the underlying data, the methodologies used, and the first applications.

Together, the new data and the extended models allow for a thorough and comprehensive analysis of a land use and climate policy. This book outlines key empirical and analytical issues associated with modelling land use and land use change in the context of global climate change policy. It places special emphasis on the economy-wide competition for land and other resources, especially;

The implications of changes in land use for the cost of climate change mitigation, Land use change as a result of mitigation, and Feedback from changes in the global climate to land use.

By offering synthesis and evaluation of a variety of different approaches to this challenging field of research, this book will serve as a key reference for future work in the economic analysis of land use and climate change policy.

Author Notes

Thomas W. Hertel is Executive Director and founder of the Global Trade Analysis Project at Purdue University, USA.
Steven K. Rose is a senior research economist at the Electric Power Research Institute in the Global Climate Change Research Group in Washington, DC, and was recently a senior researcher at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Richard S. J. Tol is Research Professor at the Economics and Social Research Institute in Dublin, Ireland, and Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Thomas W. Hertel and Steven Rose and Richard S.J. TolChad Monfreda and Navin Ramankutty and Thomas W. HertelBrent Sohngen and Colleen Tennity and Marc Hnytka and Karl MeeusenHuey-Lin Lee and Thomas W. Hertel and Steven Rose and Misak AvetisyanSteven Rose and Huey-Lin LeeThomas W. Hertel and Huey-Lin Lee and Steven Rose and Brent SohngenRonald Sands and Man-Keun KimJohn Reilly and Sergey PaltsevBas Eickhout and Hans Van Meijl and Andrzej Tabeau and Elke StehfestAlla Golub and Thomas W. Hertel and Brent SohngenBrent Sohngen and Alla Golub and Thomas W. HertelKerstin Ronneberger and Maria Berrittella and Francesco Bosello and Richard S.J. Tol

Dedication	p. v
List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. xiv
List of contributors	p. xvii
Foreword by John Weyant	p. xix
Part I Introduction and motivation	p. 1
1 Land use in computable general equilibrium models: an overview	p. 3
Part II Empirical foundations of global land use analyses	p. 31
2 Global agricultural land use data for climate change analysis	p. 33
3 Global forestry data for the economic modelling of land use	p. 49
4 An integrated global land use database for CGE analysis of climate policy options	p. 72
5 Non-CO 2 greenhouse gas emissions data for climate change economic analysis	p. 89
Part III Modelling global land use for climate change policy analysis	p. 121
6 Modelling land use related greenhouse gas sources and sinks and their mitigation potential	p. 123
7 Modelling the competition for land: methods and application to climate policy	p. 154
8 Biomass energy and competition for land	p. 182
9 The impact of environmental and climate constraints on global food supply	p. 206
10 Land use modelling in a recursively dynamic GTAP framework	p. 235
11 The role of forestry in carbon sequestration in general equilibrium models	p. 279
12 KLUM@GTAP: spatially explicit, biophysical land use in a computable general equilibrium model	p. 304
Index	p. 339

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