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Interaction between the Agricultural Economy and the Environment: An Overview of Dutch Problems, Policies and Models

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Modelling the Economy and the Environment

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In most industrialized countries environmental policy has become a major component of economic policy. Besides full employment, a reasonable level of income, a stable price level, a balanced balance of payments, a stable currency and a reasonable income distribution, environmental quality and the protection of nature have become generally accepted as goals of economic policy.1

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  1. Department of General Economics, Wageningen Agricultural University, P.O. Box 8130, EW-6700, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Henk Folmer

  2. Department of Agricultural Economics, Policy Wageningen Agricultural University, P.O. Box 8130, EW-6700, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Geert Thijssen

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  1. Institute of Local Government Studies, AKF, Nyropsgade 37, DK-1602, Copenhagen V, Denmark

    Bjarne Madsen (Director of Research) (Director of Research)

  2. Institute of Political Science, University of Aarhus, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark

    Chris Jensen-Butler

  3. Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Nørregade 10, DK-1017, Copenhagen K, Denmark

    Jørgen Birk Mortensen

  4. Institute of Local Government Studies, AKF, Nyropsgade 37, DK-1602, Copenhagen V, Denmark

    Anne M. Bruun Christensen

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Folmer, H., Thijssen, G. (1996). Interaction between the Agricultural Economy and the Environment: An Overview of Dutch Problems, Policies and Models. In: Madsen, B., Jensen-Butler, C., Mortensen, J.B., Christensen, A.M.B. (eds) Modelling the Economy and the Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61128-5_2

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