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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: economic investigation of the dynamic role for greenhouse gas emission mitigation by the U.S. agricultural and forest sectors
  name:
    name part: Lee, Heng-Chi.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 151 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: Global average temperature rose 1⁰F in the last 100 years allegedly due to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. In reaction, global society is moving toward coordinated action to reduce manmade greenhouse gas emissions in an effect to avoid possible future adverse effects. Under such an effort, the social costs for bringing down emissions, now largely caused by fossil fuel consumption are likely to be significant. High cost strategies may be required to deal with near term fossil fuel consumption until new technological developments reduce fossil fuel dependency or increase energy utilization efficiency. However, mitigation strategies in the agricultural and forest sector may serve as an important bridge to the future helping to hold costs down until technology develops. This dissertation examines the dynamic role the agricultural and forest sectors can play in mitigation. A 100 year mathematical programming model, depicting U.S. agricultural and forest sectoral activity including land transfers and greenhouse gas consequences is applied to simulate potential mitigation response. The results reveal that carbon sequestration, a natural phenomenon occurring when carbon is breathed and retained in terrestrial ecosystems, is a very important mitigation strategy that can be implemented in the early decades. Although policy design must consider that the stored carbon saturates in turn could be released in the future. Also, use of biofuel as a fossil fuel substitute, becomes a promising mitigation strategy in the later decades, especially when the carbon prices are high.
  note: by Heng-Chi Lee.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Agricultural Economics".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2002.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-100).
  subject:
    topic: Major agricultural economics
  identifier: 30-72480 UMI
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    record creation date: 030806
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