This presentation provides an introduction to the book titled: SIMPLE-G: A Gridded Economic Approach to Analysis of Sustainability of the Earth’s Land and Water Resources, edited by Iman Haqiqi and Thomas Hertel, and published by Springer. Chapter 15 introduces a different version of SIMPLE-G which models cropland use in Brazil, exploring how infrastructure expansion will alter the response of agriculture in Brazil to international price shocks. The proposed railway expansion (PNL205) will improve the connectivity of the interior of Brazil with international markets. Grid cell crop prices are tied to international markets via a transportation cost module. Results show that the planned expansion of railways boosts the response of farmgate prices in the interior relatively more – at the expense of production in the South and Southeast of Brazil. This, in turn, has important impacts on terrestrial carbon emissions. For more details, please visit the SIMPLE-G webpage: [ Ссылка ]
Keywords: Infrastructure expansion, railways, terrestrial carbon emissions, transport emissions, spatial heterogeneity, Brazil, cropland expansion
