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A changing climate is likely to have a drastic impact on crop
yields in Africa. The purpose of this book is to document the
effects of climate change on agriculture in Africa and to discuss
strategies for adaptation to hotter weather and less predictable
rainfall. These strategies include promoting opportunities for
farmers to adopt technologies that produce optimal results in terms
of crop yield and income under local agro-ecological and
socioeconomic conditions. The focus is on sub-Saharan Africa, an
area that is already affected by changing patterns of heat and
rainfall. Because of the high prevalence of subsistence farming,
food insecurity, and extreme poverty in this region, there is a
great need for practical adaptation strategies. The book includes
empirical research in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and
other Sub-Saharan countries, and the conclusion summarizes
policy-relevant findings from the chapters. It is aimed at advanced
students, researchers, extension and development practitioners, and
officials of government agencies, NGOs, and funding agencies. It
also will provide supplementary reading for courses in environment
and development and in agricultural economics.
This title was first published in 2003. Economists have had
increasing success in arguing the merits of market-based approaches
to environmental problems. By making polluting expensive,
market-based approaches provide polluters with incentives to clean
up, rather than mandates to stop polluting. These approaches
include pollution taxes, transferable emissions permits and
subsidies for pollution abatement. The purpose of this volume is to
explore the situations where Command and Control (CAC) may not be
all bad, and in fact might even have some advantages over
market-based instruments (MBI).
This title was first published in 2003. Economists have had
increasing success in arguing the merits of market-based approaches
to environmental problems. By making polluting expensive,
market-based approaches provide polluters with incentives to clean
up, rather than mandates to stop polluting. These approaches
include pollution taxes, transferable emissions permits and
subsidies for pollution abatement. The purpose of this volume is to
explore the situations where Command and Control (CAC) may not be
all bad, and in fact might even have some advantages over
market-based instruments (MBI).
The fourth edition is augmented by more than 70 new formulas. In
particular, we have included some key concepts and results from
trade theory, games of incomplete information and combinatorics. In
addition there are scattered additions of new formulas in many
chapters. Again we are indebted to a number of people who has
suggested corrections, - provements and new formulas. In
particular, we would like to thank Jens-Henrik Madsen, Larry Karp,
Harald Goldstein, and Geir Asheim. In a reference book, errors are
particularly destructive. We hope that readers who ?nd our
remaining errors will call them to our attention so that we may
purge them from future editions. Oslo and Berkeley, May 2005 Knut
Sydsaeter, Arne Strom, Peter Berck From the preface to the third
edition
Thepracticeofeconomicsrequiresawide-rangingknowledgeofformulasfrommat-
matics, statistics, andmathematicaleconomics.
Withthisvolumewehopetopresent a formulary tailored to the needs of
students and working professionals in economics. In addition to a
selection of mathematical and statistical formulas often used by
economists, this volume contains many purely economic results and
theorems. It
containsjusttheformulasandtheminimumcommentaryneededtorelearnthema-
ematics involved. We have endeavored to state theorems at the level
of generality economists might ?nd useful. In contrast to the
economic maxim, "everything is twice more continuously
di?erentiable than it needs to be," we have usually listed
theregularityconditionsfortheoremstobetrue.Wehopethatwehaveachieveda
level of explication that is accurate and useful without being
pedantic."
A changing climate is likely to have a drastic impact on crop
yields in Africa. The purpose of this book is to document the
effects of climate change on agriculture in Africa and to discuss
strategies for adaptation to hotter weather and less predictable
rainfall. These strategies include promoting opportunities for
farmers to adopt technologies that produce optimal results in terms
of crop yield and income under local agro-ecological and
socioeconomic conditions. The focus is on sub-Saharan Africa, an
area that is already affected by changing patterns of heat and
rainfall. Because of the high prevalence of subsistence farming,
food insecurity, and extreme poverty in this region, there is a
great need for practical adaptation strategies. The book includes
empirical research in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and
other Sub-Saharan countries, and the conclusion summarizes
policy-relevant findings from the chapters. It is aimed at advanced
students, researchers, extension and development practitioners, and
officials of government agencies, NGOs, and funding agencies. It
also will provide supplementary reading for courses in environment
and development and in agricultural economics.
The fourth edition is augmented by more than 70 new formulas. In
particular, we have included some key concepts and results from
trade theory, games of incomplete information and combinatorics. In
addition there are scattered additions of new formulas in many
chapters. Again we are indebted to a number of people who has
suggested corrections, - provements and new formulas. In
particular, we would like to thank Jens-Henrik Madsen, Larry Karp,
Harald Goldstein, and Geir Asheim. In a reference book, errors are
particularly destructive. We hope that readers who ?nd our
remaining errors will call them to our attention so that we may
purge them from future editions. Oslo and Berkeley, May 2005 Knut
Sydsaeter, Arne Strom, Peter Berck From the preface to the third
edition
Thepracticeofeconomicsrequiresawide-rangingknowledgeofformulasfrommat-
matics, statistics, andmathematicaleconomics.
Withthisvolumewehopetopresent a formulary tailored to the needs of
students and working professionals in economics. In addition to a
selection of mathematical and statistical formulas often used by
economists, this volume contains many purely economic results and
theorems. It
containsjusttheformulasandtheminimumcommentaryneededtorelearnthema-
ematics involved. We have endeavored to state theorems at the level
of generality economists might ?nd useful. In contrast to the
economic maxim, "everything is twice more continuously
di?erentiable than it needs to be," we have usually listed
theregularityconditionsfortheoremstobetrue.Wehopethatwehaveachieveda
level of explication that is accurate and useful without being
pedantic."
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