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Bond, Craig Andrew.

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Time and tradeoffs in agroecosystem environments: Essays on natural resource use and sustainability.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Time and tradeoffs in agroecosystem environments: Essays on natural resource use and sustainability./
Author:	Bond, Craig Andrew.
Description:	234 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1456.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-04A.
Subject:	Economics, Agricultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3212839
ISBN:	9780542632006

Time and tradeoffs in agroecosystem environments: Essays on natural resource use and sustainability.
Bond, Craig Andrew.

Time and tradeoffs in agroecosystem environments: Essays on natural resource use and sustainability. - 234 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1456.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2006.

Four essays contribute to the analysis of the various costs and benefits of agricultural management alternatives, with a specific emphasis on the opportunity costs of decisions and the dynamic consequences of these choices. Recent literature has labeled this topic the study of "sustainability", which is primarily concerned with the tradeoffs between intragenerational and intergenerational welfare of heterogeneous production and non-production agents who value the broad portfolio of agroecosystem services, often with conflicting objectives. Each essay utilizes a different technique to evaluate the potential tradeoffs of alternative management decisions.

ISBN: 9780542632006Subjects--Topical Terms:

626648
Economics, Agricultural.

Time and tradeoffs in agroecosystem environments: Essays on natural resource use and sustainability.
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520 $a Four essays contribute to the analysis of the various costs and benefits of agricultural management alternatives, with a specific emphasis on the opportunity costs of decisions and the dynamic consequences of these choices. Recent literature has labeled this topic the study of "sustainability", which is primarily concerned with the tradeoffs between intragenerational and intergenerational welfare of heterogeneous production and non-production agents who value the broad portfolio of agroecosystem services, often with conflicting objectives. Each essay utilizes a different technique to evaluate the potential tradeoffs of alternative management decisions.
520 $a Chapter 2 reviews the vast sustainability indicator literature, and proposes that a natural resource economics taxonomy is one conceptualization that can help guide indicator selection and use for producers and policy makers alike.
520 $a Chapter 3 develops a dynamic analytical model of an agroecosystem based on cycling pools of a production-limiting soil resource and an environmental damage function that causes disutility for non-producers. Two scenarios are developed: one in which the private representative agent ignores the externality, and the comparable solution where a social planner can choose a resource allocation that internalizes the external effects. Alternative sustainability criteria based on time paths of resource development and welfare are proposed, and the consistency of the present-value solutions with each criterion is evaluated.
520 $a In Chapter 4, the sustainability criteria are directly imposed on the dynamic optimization problem developed in the previous chapter, and numerical techniques (specifically, value iteration in a dynamic programming framework) are used to solve for the optimal dynamic solutions of the constrained problems. Both intra- and intergenerational welfare tradeoffs under each criterion are analyzed, as well as the deadweight loss associated with imposition of the constraint.
520 $a The final essay, Chapter 5, employs empirical production frontier techniques to estimate the costs involved in pollution abatement at the plot level, using experimental field data over a range of alternative production systems. Empirical shadow price estimates of inputs and outputs related to pollution highlight the potential tradeoffs between the welfare of agricultural producers and those who value a cleaner environment, and can help in decision making at the farm and policy levels.
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