Valuing Ecosystem Services and Downstream Water Quality Improvement in the U.S. Corn Belt
In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 85, Heft 3-4, S. 823-872
ISSN: 1573-1502
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In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 85, Heft 3-4, S. 823-872
ISSN: 1573-1502
In: Applied economic perspectives and policy, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 609-626
ISSN: 2040-5804
AbstractWe examine cover crop (CC) adoption to determine how this soil health practice has influenced agricultural non‐point source pollution. We use remotely sensed data on practice adoption, and control for hydrological flow direction, weather, and land use to estimate the ex post impact of CC on total Nitrogen concentrations in surface water while controlling for pollutant spillovers from upstream. At the mean treatment level in the study area (3.2%), a 1% increase in CC adoption results in a 0.06 mg/L (2%) reduction in concentration in the study area. Results provide novel estimates based on observed data that can be compared to biophysical simulations of CC effectiveness.
In: Applied economic perspectives and policy, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 502-521
ISSN: 2040-5804
AbstractThe sizable technical potential to sequester atmospheric carbon in soils to mitigate climate change will only be realized where and when there is also economic potential. A choice experiment conducted with a random sample of farmers in the State of Indiana, United States, revealed that farmers who have not previously adopted reduced tillage practices on any of their land require a $40 per acre increase in net revenue to switch from conventional tillage to no‐till. We estimate that farmers have a $10.57/acre option value of not signing a multi‐year sequestration contract, and find that government payments are preferred to carbon markets.
In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 91, Heft 3, S. 627-641
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In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 102, Heft 5, S. 1598-1622
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In: Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes, S. 103-132
In: Environment and development economics, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 415-439
ISSN: 1469-4395
ABSTRACTWe develop a bioeconomic model to gain insight into the challenges of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) as applied to protect endangered species given wildlife-livestock disease risks and habitat fragmentation. We show how greater connectivity of habitat creates an endogenous trade-off. More connectedness both (i) ups the chance that populations of endangered species will grow more rapidly, while (ii) simultaneously increasing the likelihood diseases will spread more quickly. We examine subsidies for habitat connectedness, livestock vaccination, and reduced movement of infected livestock. We find the cost-effective policy is to first subsidize habitat connectivity rather than vaccinations – this serves to increase habitat contiguousness. Once habitat is sufficiently connected, disease risks increase to a level to make disease-related subsidies worthwhile. Highly connected habitat requires nearly all the government budget be devoted to disease prevention and control. The result of the conservation payments is significantly increased wildlife abundance, increased livestock health and abundance, and increased development opportunities.
In: Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes, S. 1-30
In: Political psychology: journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 261-278
ISSN: 1467-9221
By defining the essence of a policy problem, an issue frame shapes how individuals think about a political issue. In this research, we investigate framing effects among domain experts, an understudied yet increasingly important set of individuals in the policymaking process. Because domain experts have extensive and highly structured knowledge on a particular topic, they are likely to actively process issue frames to which they are exposed. Consequently, we hypothesize that frames consistent with experts' values will be particularly influential, whereas frames inconsistent with their values will lead to contrast effects. We test our hypotheses on a unique set of domain experts by examining professional farmers' attitudes toward no‐till agriculture. Using an experimental design, we find evidence that environmental values interact with frames to influence farmers' interest in no‐till, especially when farmers are exposed to a novel frame.
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 120, S. 106161
ISSN: 0264-8377