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Land use has long been overlooked in economics and climate modelling. That is now changing. This book investigates important advances in modelling global land use, with applications considering the potential of these options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, estimates of the costs to the economy, and analyses of the trade-offs between these objectives and the global demand for food. The book presents new databases that are the foundation for policy-relevant research in the field of global land-use change, greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration, thereupon critically assessing the underlying methodologies and their use in these early applications.

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.

Dedication	p. v
List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. xiv
List of contributors	p. xvii
Foreword by John Weyant	p. xix
Introduction and motivation	p. 1
Land use in computable general equilibrium models: an overview	p. 3
Empirical foundations of global land use analyses	p. 31
Global agricultural land use data for climate change analysis	p. 33
Global forestry data for the economic modelling of land use	p. 49
An integrated global land use database for CGE analysis of climate policy options	p. 72
Non-CO₂ greenhouse gas emissions data for climate change economic analysis	p. 89
Modelling global land use for climate change policy analysis	p. 121
Modelling land use related greenhouse gas sources and sinks and their mitigation potential	p. 123
Modelling the competition for land: methods and application to climate policy	p. 154
Biomass energy and competition for land	p. 182
The impact of environmental and climate constraints on global food supply	p. 206
Land use modelling in a recursively dynamic GTAP framework	p. 235
The role of forestry in carbon sequestration in general equilibrium models	p. 279
KLUM@GTAP: spatially explicit, biophysical land use in a computable general equilibrium model	p. 304
Index	p. 339
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Economic Analysis of Land Use in Global Climate Change Policy

Economic Analysis of Land Use in Global Climate Change Policy

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