Abstract
Environmental and resource management issues have played a major role in agriculture. On the one hand, there is increased awareness of the environmental side effects resulting from agriculture and the problems associated with pollution, depletion of natural resources, and the effects on human and wildlife health caused by farming activities. On the other hand, it has also been realized that farmers are stewards of the land, and their actions contribute to the enhancement of environmental quality and also generate value that is not compensated directly by markets. Both the control of negative externalities as well as the compensation for positive ones are subject to public sector involvement through government policies, and therefore much of the research on the environment and agriculture is policy-driven and provides input for both regulatory action and farmers’ response (Lichtenberg, forthcoming).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Babcock, B., E. Lichtenberg, and D. Zilberman. 1992. “Impact of Damage Control and Quality of Output: Estimating Pest Control Effectiveness.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74: 163–172.
Bogen, K. 1990. Uncertainty in Environmental Health Risk Assessment. New York: Garland. Byrd, D.M. 1997. “Goodbye Pesticides? The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996.” Regulation (Fall): 57–62.
Byrd, D.M. 1997. “Goodbye Pesticides? The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996.” Regulation (Fall): 57–62.
Caswell, M., E. Lichtenberg, and D. Zilberman. 1990. “The Effects of Pricing Policies on Water Conservation and Drainage.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 72: 883–890.
Caswell, M., and D. Zilberman. 1986. “The Effects of Well Depth and Land Quality on the Choice of Irrigation Technology.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 68: 798–811.
Cropper, M., W. Evans, S. Berardi, M. Ducla-Soares, and P. Portney. 1992. “The Determinants of Pesticide Regulation: A Statistical Analysis of EPA Decision Making.” Journal of Political Economy 100: 175–197.
Crouch, E., and R. Wilson. 1981. “Regulation of Carcinogens.” Risk Analysis 1: 47–57.
Feder, G. 1977. “The Impact of Uncertainty in a Class of Objective Functions.” Journal of Economic Theory 16: 504–512.
Feder, G., and G. O’Mara. 1982. “On Information and Innovation Diffusion: A Bayesian Approach.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 64: 145–147.
Hanemann, M., E. Lichtenberg, and D. Zilberman. 1989. “Conservation versus Cleanup in Agricultural Drainage Control.” Working Paper No. 88–37, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park.
Harper, C.R., and D. Zilberman. 1992. “Pesticides and Worker Safety.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74: 68–78.
Hochman, E., and D. Zilberman. 1979. “Two-Goal Environmental Policy: An Integration of Micro and Macro ad hoc Decision Rules.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 6: 152–174.
Hueth, D., and U. Regev. 1974. “Optimal Agricultural Pest Management with Increasing Pest Resistance.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 56: 543–552.
Innes, R. 2000. “The Economics of Livestock and Its Regulation.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82: 97–117.
Just, R., and R. Pope. 1978. “Stochastic Specification of Production Functions and Economic Implications.” Journal of Econometrics 7: 67–86.
Just R., and D. Zilberman. 1988. “A Methodology for Evaluating Equity Implications of Environmental Policy Decisions in Agriculture.” Land Economics 64: 37–52.
Kataoka, S. 1963. “A Stochastic Programming Model.” Econometrica 31: 181–196.
Khanna, M., and D. Zilberman. 1996. “Incentives, Precision Technology, and Environmental Protection.” Ecological Economics 23: 25–43.
Lichtenberg, E. Forthcoming. “Agriculture and the Environment.” In B. Gardner and G. Rausser, eds., Handbook of Agricultural Economics. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Lichtenberg, E., and D. Zilberman. 1986. “The Welfare Economics of Price Supports in U.S. Agriculture.” American Economic Review 76: 1135–1141.
Lichtenberg, E., and D. Zilberman. 1988. “Efficient Regulation of Environmental Health Risks.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 103: 167–178.
Lichtenberg, E., and D. Zilberman. 1989. “Regulation of Marine Contamination under Environmental Uncertainty: Shellfish Contamination in California.” Marine Resource Economics 4: 211–225.
Lichtenberg, E., D. Zilberman, and K. Bogen. 1989. “Regulating Environmental Health Risks Under Uncertainty: Groundwater Contamination in California.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 17: 22–34.
Marra, M., and G. Carlson. 1987. “The Role of Farm Size and Resource Constraints in the Choice Between Risky Technologies.” Western Journal of Agricultural Economics 12: 109–118.
Metcalfe, M. 2000. “Environmental Regulation and Implications for the U.S. Hog and Pork Industries.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University.
Metcalfe, M., and D. Zilberman. 2001. “The Environmental Implications of Risk Management in Agriculture.” Working Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley.
National Research Council (NRC). 2000. “The Future Role of Pesticides in U.S. Agriculture.” Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Rawlins, S. 1998. “Overview of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996.” American Farm Bureau Federation, FQPA Briefing Book (July).
Sandmo, A. 1971. “On the Theory of the Competitive Firm Under Price Uncertainty.” American Economic Review 61: 65–73.
Schierow, L. 2000. “FQPA: Origin and Outcome.” Choices (third quarter): 18–20.
Spear, R.C. 1978. “Organophosphate Residue Poisoning Among Agricultural Workers in the U.S.: Towards a Strategy for a Long Term Solution.” CRES Report AS-R-18, Australian National University, Sidney.
Sunding, D., and J. Zivin. 2000. “Insect Population Dynamics, Pesticide Use, and Farmworker Health.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82: 527–540.
Tinbergen, J. 1952. On the Theory of Macroeconomic Policy. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1999. “EPA State Compendium: Programs and Regulatory Activities Related to Animal Feeding Operations.” U.S. EPA (August).
Wu, J., and B. Babcock. 1996. “Purchase of Environmental Goods from Agriculture.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78: 935–945.
Zivin, J., and D. Zilberman. Forthcoming. “Optimal Environmental Health Regulations with Heterogeneous Populations: Treatment versus Tagging.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2002 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Metcalfe, M., Sunding, D., Zilberman, D. (2002). Risk Management and the Environment. In: Just, R.E., Pope, R.D. (eds) A Comprehensive Assessment of the Role of Risk in U.S. Agriculture. Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol 23. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3583-3_23
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3583-3_23
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-4924-0
Online ISBN: 978-1-4757-3583-3
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive