Browsing by Author "McCarl, Bruce A."
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Keplinger, Keith O.; McCarl, Bruce A. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 1998-02)The EAA implemented a pilot irrigation suspension program in 1997 on 9,669 acres mainly in Medina and Uvalde counties with the objective of increasing springflow at Comal Springs, and providing relief to municipalities in ...
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Tanyeri-Abur, Aysen (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)The United States has maintained a sugar import quota since 1982. This policy, while supporting U.S. producer prices and incomes at a high level, has caused consumers to pay more for sugar and has reduced the incomes of ...
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Ismayilova, Rubaba Mammad (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)The increasing U.S. dependence on imported oil; the contribution of fossil fuels to the greenhouse gas emissions and the climate change issue; the current level of energy prices and other environmental concerns have increased ...
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Hughes, Randi Catherine (2011-08-08)Foreign animal disease outbreaks can cause substantial economic losses. Policy makers need information on both the vulnerability of the food supply to disease epidemics and the impacts of alternative protection actions. ...
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McCarl, Bruce A.; Griffin, Ronald C.; Kaiser, Ronald A.; Freeman, Lansingh S.; Blackburn, Wilbert H.; Jordan, Wayne R. (Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1987)
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Yu, Chin-Hsien (2014-07-25)This dissertation investigates the agricultural impacts of climate change in three ways addressing water implications of mitigation strategies, feedlot livestock productivity vulnerability induced by climate change and ...
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Egbendewe-Mondzozo, Aklesso; Musumba, Mark; McCarl, Bruce A.; Wu, Ximing (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2011)
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Chandrasena, Rajapakshage Inoka Ilmi (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The broad objective of this thesis involves investigation of the role agriculture might play in a society wide greenhouse gas emissions reduction effort. Specifically, the breakeven price for carbon emission offsets is ...
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Jones, Jason P. (2014-07-08)U.S. agricultural commodity prices have been volatile in recent years, attributed to many factors, including renewable fuel standard mandates (RFS). While the RFS is legislatively able to be altered, the mandate largely ...
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Cao, Jun (2017-05-10)This dissertation intends to review and assesses economic consequences of elements within the Savannah Accelerated Development Program in Ghana. The program has never been economically assessed in the literature. Agricultural ...
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Mainali, Bharat Kanta (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)Environmental issues continue to gain priority among societal goals. Water quality has been the focus of much of the attention, with the emphasis shifting from point source to nonpoint source pollution from agriculture. ...
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Dillon, Carl R.; Jones, Lonnie L.; Williams, R. Lynn; Jordan, Wayne R.; McCarl, Bruce A. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 1993-03)The Edwards Aquifer underlies a large region in south central Texas extending from west of Uvalde to Austin. The karstic aquifer supports irrigated agriculture in the western part of the region, provides the sole source ...
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Leidner, Andrew (2012-07-16)The study area for this dissertation is the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley (Valley). The overarching theme is water and includes regional water management, water management institutions, and water supply decision-making as ...
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Kim, Man-Keun (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)This dissertation analyzes the basis for and magnitudes of discount factors based on the characteristics of greenhouse gas emission (GHGE) offsets that are applied to the GHGE reduction projects, concentrating on agricultural ...
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Prasodjo, Darmawan (2012-10-19)Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and a point of electricity generation is a promising option for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. One issue with respect to CCS is the design of carbon dioxide transport, storage and ...
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Cai, Yongxia; McCarl, Bruce A. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2007-04)Water scarcity is becoming a pervasive and persistent problem in Texas particularly in the drier regions containing cities like San Antonio, Austin, and Corpus Christi while growth causes emerging problems in Dallas, ...
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Maung, Thein Aye (2009-05-15)In the United Sates and around the world, electric power plants are among the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change argued was the main cause of climate change and ...
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Yang, Yingqian (2019-06-25)South Central Texas is a region where water is scarce, the region exhibits growing water, energy and food demands associated with an expanding population. Climate change also stresses water supplies. This dissertation ...
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Merrifield, John D.; McCarl, Bruce A.; Griffin, Ronald C.; Emerson, Peter M.; Collinge, Robert A. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 1993-03)Business as usual has ceased to be an acceptable system for the Edwards because of the burden it imposes upon regional competitiveness and welfare. Nonrevisionist strategies such as surface water development and spring ...
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The Effect of Transaction Costs on Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation for Agriculture and Forestry Kim, Seong Woo (2011-08-08)Climate change and its mitigation is rapidly becoming an item of social concern. Climate change mitigation involves reduction of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations through emissions reduction and or sequestration ...