Natural resources management in agriculture : methods for assessing economic and environmental impacts / edited by B.A. Shiferaw, H.A. Freeman, and S.M. Swinton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shiferaw, Bekele (Bekele Ambaye)

Freeman, H. Ade.

Swinton, Scott M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Environmental aspects--Congresses.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Congresses.

Agricultural resources--Management--Congresses.

Agricultural resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Natural resource management in agriculture

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA, USA : CABI Pub., c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Discusses the features and methodological difficulties of NRM impact assessment. This book examines the strengths and weaknesses of various impact assessment approaches, including econometric, bio-economic, and more direct methods. It also assesses and identifies data requirements for developing impact indicators.

Contents:

Preface; Foreword; Contributors; Reviewers; Part I. Introduction; 1 Assessing the Impacts of Natural Resource Management Interventions in Agriculture: Concepts, Issues and Challenges; Part II. Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Biophysical Indicators of NRM Impacts; 2 Valuation Methods and Approaches for Assessing Natural Resource Management Impacts; 3 Measurable Biophysical Indicators for Impact Assessment:Changes in Soil Quality; 4 Measurable Biophysical Indicators for Impact Assessment: Changes in Water Availability and Quality Introduction

5 Biophysical Indicators of Agro-ecosystem Services and Methods for Monitoring the Impacts of NRM Technologies at Different ScalesPart III. Methodological Advances for a Comprehensive Impact Assessment; 6 Econometric Methods forMeasuring Natural Resource Management Impacts: Theoretical Issues and Illustrations from Uganda; 7 Assessing Economic Impacts of Natural Resource Management Using Economic Surplus; 8 Bioeconomic Modelling for Natural Resource Management Impact Assessment; Part IV. NRM Impact Assessment in Practice; 9 Valuing Soil Fertility Change:Selected Methods and CaseStudies

10 Evaluating the Impacts of Watershed Management Projects: A Practical Econometric Approach11 Assessing Economic andEnvironmental Impacts of NRMTechnologies: An EmpiricalApplication Using the EconomicSurplus Approach; 12 Assessing the Economic andEnvironmental Impacts ofConservation Technologies:A Farm-level BioeconomicModelling Approach; 13 Assessing the Impacts ofNatural Resource ManagementPolicy Interventions with aVillage General EquilibriumModel; Part V. Towards Improved Approaches for NRM Impact Assessment

14 The Concept of Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) and its Implications for Developing Evaluation Methods15 NRM Impact Assessment in the CGIAR: Meeting theChallenge and Implicationsfor CGIAR Centres; 16 Towards ComprehensiveApproaches in Assessing NRMImpacts: What We Know andWhat We Need to Know; Index

Notes:

Based on papers from a workshop held at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics, Dec. 6-7, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-90829-7

9786610908295

0-85199-068-1

OCLC:

437183006