With average temperature ranging from− 20° C at the North Pole to 30° C at the Equator and
with global warming expected to reach 1.4° C to 4.5° C by the year 2100, it is clear that …

Global agriculture consumes substantial resources and produces significant pollution. By
shifting its production to new locations, and inducing changes in technology and input use …

Climate scientists have spent billions of dollars and eons of supercomputer time studying
how increased concentrations of greenhouse gases and changes in the reflectivity of the …

This paper combines local temperature treatment effects with a quantitative macroeconomic
model to assess the potential for global reallocation between agricultural and non …

The world is facing serious environmental problems. Some are local or confined within
countries or regions, such as poor urban air quality in rapidly growing economies, or poor …

Agriculture is arguably the most climate-sensitive sector of the economy. Growing concerns
about anthropogenic climate change have increased research interest in assessing its …

Risks in globally interconnected socio-environmental systems are complex: trade, migration,
climate phenomena such as El Niño, and other processes can both redistribute and …

ABSTRACT I formally relate the consequences of climate change to the time series variation
in weather extensively explored by recent empirical literature. I show that reduced-form fixed …

This chapter reviews how the literature on trade in agricultural and food products has
developed over the last 20 years. Its evolution has been heavily influenced by several …

I study how geography shaped city formation and aggregate development in the US prior to
the Civil War. To guide my analysis, I present a conjecture that cities' farm hinterlands …