Pesticide externalities from the US agricultural sector - The impact of internalization, reduced pesticide application rates, and climate change Conference Paper

abstract

• This study uses mathematical programming to examine alternative assumptions about regulations of external costs from pesticide applications in US agriculture. We find that, without external cost regulation, climate change benefits from increased agricultural production in the US may be more than offset by increased environmental costs. The internalization of the pesticide externalities increase farmers' production costs but increase farmers' income because of price adjustments and associated welfare shifts from consumers to producers. Our results also show that full internalizations of external pesticide costs substantially reduces preferred pesticide applications rates for corn and soybeans as climate change. 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

authors

• Mccarl, Bruce

published proceedings

• EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE 2010: GLOBAL CHANGE, CLIMATE AND PEOPLE

author list (cited authors)

• Koleva, N. G., Schneider, U. A., & McCarl, B. A.

citation count

• 7

complete list of authors

• Koleva, Nikolinka G||Schneider, Uwe A||McCarl, Bruce A

publication date

• January 2011

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Procedia Environmental Sciences  Journal

keywords

• Agricultural Sector Model
• Climate Change Impacts
• Environmental Policy Analysis
• Farm Management Adaptation
• Pesticide Externalities
• United States
• Welfare Maximization

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.proenv.2011.05.016

start page

• 153

end page

• 168

volume

• 6

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.proenv.2011.05.016

user-defined tag

• 13 Climate Action
• 2 Zero Hunger