Socio-Economic Impacts of the Agricultural Emissions Trading Scheme

Levente Timar

No 115509, 2011 Conference, August 25-26, 2011, Nelson, New Zealand from New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society

Abstract: The impacts of including the agricultural sector in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) depend on how farmers change their behaviour in response to the increased cost of emissions. Yet most analyses of the ETS do not allow for a behavioural response. This paper partially addresses the gap in the literature: it allows for farmers to change their land use to reflect the reduced returns from pastoral agriculture as well as the potential to earn carbon credits for sequestration performed by plantation forestry and scrub. Simulations performed in the Land Use in Rural New Zealand (LURNZ) model allow us to answer questions about the likely spatial and temporal distribution of the socio-economic impacts of the ETS.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.115509

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