000K utf8 1100 $c2015 1500 eng 2050 urn:nbn:de:gbv:8-diss-174035 3000 Söder, Mareike 4000 Essays on the challenges of global land change science$hChristian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel [Söder, Mareike] 4030 Kiel$nChristian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 4209 This dissertation considers selected economic aspects of global land change science. The first set of three papers analyses different aspects of the sustainability regulation within the European biofuel policy. The first paper analyses the greenhouse gas balance of biofuels when taking into account direct land use change. The second paper revises the aspect of indirect land use change by evaluating approaches for quantifying indirect land use change and related policy proposals. The third paper analyses policy instruments for reducing emissions from land use change caused by biofuels in a case study for Sumatra and Kalimantan based on a carbon map. The forth paper analyzes the heterogeneity in agricultural productivity of Brazilian agriculture by applying a latent common factor model that accounts for unobserved heterogeneity. The fifth paper analyses the suitability of satellite based night light data as a proxy for regional growth in GDP. 4950 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:8-diss-174035$xR$3Volltext$534 4961 https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/diss_mods_00017403 5051 333.7 5550 agricultural development 5550 biofuel policy 5550 biofuels 5550 Brazil 5550 carbon map 5550 iluc 5550 indirect land use change 5550 land use change 5550 latent common factor model 5550 night light data 5550 regional growth