Agricultural policy and the environment / edited by Roger E. Meiners and Bruce Yandle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meiners, Roger E.

Yandle, Bruce.

Series:

Political economy forum

The political economy forum

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture and state--United States.

Agriculture and state.

United States.

Environmental policy--United States.

Environmental policy.

Agriculture--Environmental aspects--United States.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Environmental aspects.

Physical Description:

xvi, 204 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowan & Littlefield, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: Agricultural Policy and the Environment: Problems, Prospects, and Prosperity / Roger E. Meiners, Bruce Yandle xi

1 What's So Special about the Farm? / Peter J. Hill 1

2 Agricultural Commons Problems and Responses: Sick Hogs at the Trough / Roger E. Meiners, Andrew P. Morriss 19

3 Regulating Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Internalization or Cartelization? / Bruce Yandle, Sean Blacklocke 45

4 Legal Impediments to Transferring Agricultural Water to Other Uses / B. Delworth Gardner 67

5 Agricultural Programs with Dubious Environmental Benefits: The Political Economy of Ethanol / Gary D. Libecap 89

6 Agricultural Technology and the Precautionary Principle / Indur M. Goklany 107

7 High-Yield Conservation: More Food and Environmental Quality through Intensive Agriculture / Alex Avery, Dennis Avery 135

8 Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sinks, and Global Warming / Joshua A. Utt, W. Walker Hunter, Robert E. McCormick 151

9 Agriculture and the Environment: A Thirty-Year Retrospective / John K. Hosemann 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742527689

0742527697

OCLC:

50643889