NDLI: Using Targeted Policies to Manage Nitrogen for Sustainable Agriculture in the US

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Using Targeted Policies to Manage Nitrogen for Sustainable Agriculture in the US

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Author	Baldos, Uris Lantz Kucharik, Christopher Liu, Jing Hertel, Thomas Larrisa, Jarvis Ramankutty, Navin
Abstract	Nitrate leached from agricultural fertilizer has created a host of environmental problems (Tilman et al. 2002). Improving nitrogen management can decrease its harmful effects on the environment (Socolow 1999). However, behavioral change rarely takes place automatically. Interventions are necessary to induce or require polluters to internalize the cost of pollution (Shortle and Horan 2017). Various instruments have been considered such as taxes on chemical fertilizer, subsidies for conservation practices, and regulatory restrictions to reduce the over-use of nitrogen. Some of these interventions can be expensive and have been increasingly criticized as inefficient or ineffective due to the one-size-fits-all approach to achieve the specified goals (Ribaudo 2011). With the assistance of spatially explicit data that identify the locations with the greatest potential for reducing nitrate leaching at least cost, targeted policy measures may substantially improve the cost-effectiveness of abatement efforts (Konrad et al. 2014). This paper aims to assess the impacts of a variety of such policy measures on agriculture in the U.S.
Related Links	https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/330183/files/8861_Lantz.pdf
Page Count	3
File Format	PDF
Language	English
Publisher Date	2018-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Applied Economics Agricultural Economics Agri-economic Open Access Database Research in Applied Economics Research in Agricultural Economics Higher Study On Agricultural Economics Higher Study On Applied Economics Agricultural Research Documents Agrarian Economy & Research Higher Study Agri-economics Research in Economics Agri-economic Open Access Repository Statistics in Agricultural Economics Land Use, Water, North America Land Use Water North America Agricultural and Food Policy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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