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Published on: March 21, 2016
Guiding policies for agricultural nitrous oxide emission reduction with behavioral insights and experimentation
Tongzhe Li1, Yong Liu2, Alfons Weersink1
1Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON Canada.
Abstract:
Nitrogen fertilizer application causes emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a gas that contributes to global warming. N2O emission reduction is possible given technological advances. But climate policy for N2O reduction faces challenges caused by complex information, entangled risks with invisible gains, and polarized values. Behavioral factors influence farmers' decision-making, and here we argue context-dependent experimentation is needed to develop N2O reduction policies, proposing crop insurance as an example policy.
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