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Impact of Production Changes on Income and Environmental Risk in the Southern High Plains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Harry P. Mapp
Harry P. Mapp*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
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Abstract

Regional and farm-level analyses are conducted to evaluate the economic and environmental impacts of water quality protection policies. The regional analysis evaluates reducing nitrate losses by reducing per-acre nitrogen use, taxing nitrogen use, taxing irrigation water use, and reducing furrow irrigation. Incentives to convert furrow systems to sprinkler and LEPA systems outperform the other policies. The firm-level analysis derives farm plans that limit the expected values of environmental indices for nitrates and pesticides, and reduce the probability that specified targets will be exceeded. The analysis demonstrates the importance of evaluating environmental risk as a stochastic process.

Keywords

converting irrigation systemsenvironmental riskenvironmental risk modelsregional environmental analysistaxing irrigation watertaxing nitrogen use
Type
Invited Paper Sessions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , August 1999 , pp. 263 - 273
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1999

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