کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5055976 1371506 2007 17 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Farmers' costs of environmental regulation: Reducing the consumption of nitrogen in citrus farming
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Farmers' costs of environmental regulation: Reducing the consumption of nitrogen in citrus farming
چکیده انگلیسی

Environmental externalities in agriculture, and the choice of suitable instruments to integrate environmental concerns into agricultural policies, are a matter of interest for the Common Agricultural Policy. In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis techniques to assess the impact on farms' performance of two environmentally-friendly regulations aimed at abating consumption of inorganic nitrogen in Spanish citrus farming: levies on purchased nitrogen and nitrogen use permits for farms. By comparing farms' short-run maximum profits under both unregulated and regulated scenarios a regulation cost index is computed. Our results show that nitrogen overuse is mostly a matter of management inefficiency and that pollution could be reduced by promoting best farming techniques. Instead, if environmental regulations are implemented, regulating authorities should be aware that quantitative limits exercise a lower impact on farms' profits than taxes.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Economic Modelling - Volume 24, Issue 2, March 2007, Pages 312-328
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