Arbeitspapier
Pitfalls and potential of institutional change: rain-index insurance and the sustainability of rangeland management
Rain-index insurance is strongly advocated in many parts of the developing world to help farmers to cope with climatic risk that prevail in (semi-)arid rangelands due to low and highly uncertain rainfall. We present a modeling analysis of how the availability of rain-index insurance affects the sustainability of rangeland management. We show that a rain-index insurance with frequent payoffs, i.e. a high strike level, leads to the choice of less sustainable grazing management than without insurance available. However, a rain-index insurance with a low to medium strike level enhances the farmer's well-being while not impairing the sustainability of rangeland management.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 149
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
Agricultural Finance
Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology
- Thema
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Ecological-economic modeling
weather-index insurance
Namibia
grazing management
risk
sustainability
weather-based derivatives
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Müller, Birgit
Quaas, Martin
Frank, Karin
Baumgärtner, Stefan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
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Lüneburg
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2009
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Müller, Birgit
- Quaas, Martin
- Frank, Karin
- Baumgärtner, Stefan
- Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Entstanden
- 2009