Applied Methods for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
A Festschrift in Honor of Richard E. Howitt
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Global peak water limit of future groundwater withdrawals
Over the past 50 years, humans have extracted the Earth’s groundwater stocks at a steep rate, largely to fuel global agro-economic development. Given society’s growing reliance on groundwater, we explore ‘peak...
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Open AccessLimited increases in Arctic offshore oil and gas production with climate change and the implications for energy markets
Climate change impacts on sea ice thickness is opening access to offshore Arctic resources. The degree to which these resources are exploited will depend on sea-ice conditions, technology costs, international ...
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Introduction
This chapter orients the reader to the key policy issues and complex trade-offs that decision-makers and managers face when trying to promote agricultural sustainability and good resource management practices,...
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Managing Urban and Agricultural Water Demands in Northern China: The Case of Luancheng County, Hebei Province
Despite efforts to reform management of water resources, groundwater levels have continued to decline steadily on the North China Plain, leading to serious environmental concerns and impacts. While policy make...
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Enhancing Productivity and Market Access for Key Staples in the EAC Region: An Economic Analysis of Biophysical and Market Potential
In this chapter, we show how the current crop areas under three key staples—rice, maize, and beans—could be better aligned with the crop suitabilities that are inherent in the East African Community (EAC) regi...
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Using Moment Constraints in GME Estimation
In this contribution, we explore the sensitivity of parameter estimates derived through the generalized maximum entropy (GME) approach under alternative specifications of the width of the error term supports. ...
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Open AccessTrade-offs and synergies between yield, labor, profit, and risk in Malawian maize-based crop** systems
Land degradation, population growth, and chronic poverty in Eastern and Southern Africa challenge the sustainability of livelihoods for smallholder farmers. These farmers often manage soils depleted of nutrien...
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Open AccessClimate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) addresses the challenge of meeting the growing demand for food, fibre and fuel, despite the changing climate and fewer opportunities for agricultural expansion on additional lan...
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Visioning Change and Alternative Futures: Foresight as a research and planning tool
In this article, we motivate the use of foresight as a tool for research and policy planning, and draw examples from a number of foresight studies that have been done to envision global change and to better un...
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Biofuels and Agricultural Growth: Challenges for Develo** Agricultural Economies and Opportunities for Investment
Global projections for increasing food demand combined with increasing demand for energy from all sources – including crop-based biofuels – point toward greater stress on food systems and their supporting ecos...
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Biofuels, Food Security, and the Environment: A 2020/2050 Perspective
This chapter explores the impacts that rapid growth in biofuel demand has on agricultural prices, the consumption levels of key staple commodities, and the resulting impacts on food security and nutrition. The...
