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Is it simply getting worse? Agriculture and Swedish greenhouse gas emissions over 200 years 1
Author(s) -
KANDER ASTRID
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the economic history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.014
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1468-0289
pISSN - 0013-0117
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00389.x
Subject(s) - greenhouse gas , agriculture , fossil fuel , wetland , environmental science , greenhouse , greenhouse effect , natural resource economics , environmental protection , economics , climate change , waste management , global warming , geography , ecology , agronomy , engineering , archaeology , biology
This paper challenges the idea that emissions of greenhouse gases simply increase over time with income. It adopts a 200‐year perspective and includes the important flows of greenhouse gases related to agriculture, not just the CO 2 from fossil fuels. The result is that the pattern of Swedish total greenhouse gas emissions over time resembles an N. In contrast, when only emissions from fossil fuels are counted, the pattern over time resembles an inverted U. Among the most important factors generating emissions in agriculture, forest management was especially important, but in addition, draining of wetlands for agriculture played a substantial role.