Economic and selected environmental impact analysis of farming practices in the EU

Bc. Rui Pedro Portugal Betencourt Adao, BSc

Diplomová práce

Abstract:

The main purpose of this thesis was to evaluate the impact of several economic and environmental indicators on greenhouse gas emissions resulting from farming practices in all the EU-28 Member States. The recent and increasing concerns about food security and climate change were the main reasons for the execution of this paper, the gist of the thesis will be to provide a better understanding about the main drivers of such concerns. The theoretical part provides an insight on environmental economics, on the history of environmental awareness, and an overview of other source sectors specificities concerning the selected environmental impact. The analytic section will rely on secondary data to provide future trends and find cause effect relationships between the chosen indicators over the past. The main methodological tools used in this paper include sector analysis, regression analysis, forecasts and comparisons between different indicators regarding both greenhouse gas emissions and agricultures economy. The sector analysis was used in the theoretical chapter to provide information regarding other source sectors of emissions in the EU-28, and with more detail in the practical part about the agricultural sector. The forecasts are based on data from the period from 1991 to 2013 and predicted until the year 2050. The regression analysis was used to measure the significance of each of the chosen independent variables on agricultural emissions over the selected period.

Keywords

GHG emissions, farming practices, kuznet curve, environmental economics, CAP, regression analysis, forecast

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 28. 3. 2017

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedoucí: Ing. Petr Procházka, MSc Ph.D.

Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze

Provozně ekonomická fakulta

Magisterský studijní program / obor:
Economics and Management / Economics and Management