Essays on Environmental Policy Design for Agriculture Under Multifunctionality, Spatial Variability, and Risk

Download or read book Essays on Environmental Policy Design for Agriculture Under Multifunctionality, Spatial Variability, and Risk written by Jeffrey Mark Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental policies in agriculture are limited by five problems: their relationship to trade, unobservable effluents, multifunctionality, spatial variability, and risk. Policy design is complicated further because several of these problems occur jointly. While the existing literature approaches the problems individually, the essays in this dissertation develop policies under multiple complications, which incorporate potential feedback effects.