Environmental preservation costs and eco-efficiency in Amazonian agriculture: Application of hyperbolic distance functions
| Autor: | Víthor Rosa Franco, Karim Marini Thomé, Paulo Augusto P. de Britto, Patricia Guarnieri, Carlos Rosano Peña, André Luiz Marques Serrano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Opportunity cost
Index (economics) Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Amazon rainforest business.industry Natural resource economics Strategy and Management 05 social sciences 010501 environmental sciences Eco-efficiency 01 natural sciences Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Agriculture 0502 economics and business Sustainability Production (economics) 050207 economics business Externality 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cleaner Production. 197:699-707 |
| ISSN: | 0959-6526 |
| Popis: | This paper studied agricultural eco-efficiency in the Amazon, using hyperbolic distance functions with a stochastic frontier based on the classical variables of the multi-product production function and internalization of two externalities (one positive and one negative). The study allowed the contrast among various specifications of production functions and estimation of the opportunity costs of externalities, marginal rates of substitution and transformation, as well as an index of environmental sustainability and its determinants. The main results of the study indicate that the opportunity cost of preserved areas is between US$ 82.39 and US$ 170.37 per ha/year, and it is possible to increase the desired outputs by 19.5%, simultaneously reducing the degraded areas and inputs by 16.36%, and this only referring to the best practices in the region. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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