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Payments for ecosystem services programs and climate change adaptation in agriculture
- Abstract:
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Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs can enhance resilience to extreme weather events by establishing natural infrastructure. I investigate the effectiveness of the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) in the United States in mitigating flooded crop losses through the restoration of riparian buffers and wetlands. By leveraging variation in the timing of the program’s introduction across counties, I find that CREP reduced the number of flooded crop acres by 39 percent and ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Publisher:
- University of Oxford
- Series:
- Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2023-11-27
- ISSN:
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1471-0498
- Paper number:
- 1054
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- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2030310
- Local pid:
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pubs:2030310
- Deposit date:
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2024-09-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Youngho Kim
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Rights statement:
- © 2023 The Author(s).
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