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Agro-economic Models: Theory and Major Findings

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This chapter describes the conceptual framework and major findings from the Agro-economic Models (AEMs). The results are compared with the G-MAP models from the perspectives of adaptations to climate changes and the AEM’s capacity to model and capture them.

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Seo, S.N. (2015). Agro-economic Models: Theory and Major Findings. In: Micro-Behavioral Economics of Global Warming. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 60. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15946-1_4

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