MODELING THE LAND-USE AND GREENHOUSE-GAS IMPLICATIONS OF BIOFUELS

Madhu Khanna () and David Zilberman
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Madhu Khanna: Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 326 Mumford Hall, 1301 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

Climate Change Economics (CCE), 2012, vol. 03, issue 03, 1-15

Abstract: The emergence of biofuels as an agricultural commodity has integrated the agricultural, energy and livestock sectors and expanded the scope of models being used to analyze the effects of energy policies. It has increased the importance of incorporating spatial heterogeneity in land availability and productivity and information about the biophysical and economic determinants of land use change at multiple spatial scales. Since biofuels affect food and fuel prices, they have expanded the boundaries of economic models to consider not only their direct but also their indirect effects on land use and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper describes the demand-side and supply-side determinants of these direct and indirect changes in land use and greenhouse gas emissions with biofuels. We discuss the major modeling approaches used to analyze these effects, their strengths, limitations and key findings and directions for future research.

Keywords: Partial equilibrium; general equilibrium; biofuel policies; direct and indirect effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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