Biomass Energy Economics and Rural Livelihood in Sichuan, China

ISBN:
978-3-631-73923-5
Verlag:
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Land des Verlags:
Deutschland
Erscheinungsdatum:
17.05.2018
Autoren:
Reihe:
Development Economics and Policy
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
192
Ladenpreis
58,80EUR (inkl. MwSt. zzgl. Versand)
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This book presents a study focusing on household biomass energy use and its impacts on livelihoods in rural China. It advances the literature by triangulating the existing econometric approaches to robustly analyze energy using behaviors at the micro level. Based on a developed agricultural household model, it firstly investigates the determinants of household energy choice behaviors by analyzing household revealed and stated preferences. On the production side, it tests the competition between biomass collection and agricultural production by estimating the profit function. And finally, it examines the effects of price changes in exogenous markets on household biomass energy using behaviors by jointly estimating household consumption, production and labor allocation decisions.
Biografische Anmerkung
Qiu Chen is a Chinese agricultural economist. She received her Master Degree in Management of Agricultural Economy from Sichuan Agricultural University and her Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Bonn.