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Using spatially explicit data to improve our understanding of land supply responses: An application to the cropland effects of global sustainable irrigation in the Americas
09 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Jing Liu
Land supply elasticities determine the rates of land conversion in global policy models. However, they are only available for few countries in the world. Therefore, analysts seeking to improve the spatial resolution of their models are forced to impose regionally homogeneous parameters...
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Managing Nitrate Leaching in the Corn Belt
08 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Christopher Kucharik, Laura C Bowling, Jing Liu
Video presentation on "Managing Nitrate Leaching in the Corn Belt" for the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018
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LANDPARAM
20 Jul 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Nelson Benjamin Villoria (contributor)
A tool to aggregate cropland supply and land transformation elasticities
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International trade buffers the impact of future irrigation shortfalls
24 Jun 2016 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Thomas W. Hertel, Farzad Taheripour, Tingju Zhu, Claudia Ringler
There is increasing interest in the water–food nexus, especially the restrictive effect of water on food production in hot spots where irrigation stress is growing. However, little is known about the larger- scale implications of future irrigation shortfalls for global trade and economic...
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Future property damage from flooding: sensitivities to economy and climate change
24 Jun 2016 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Thomas W. Herte, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Michael S Delgado, Moetasim Ashfaq
Recent trends in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events have raised the concern that climate change could increase flooding risks and property damage. However, a major challenge in attributing and projecting changes in disaster risk is that damage is influenced not only by the...