Measuring the benefits of environmental change using a duality approach: The case of ozone and Illinois cash grain farms

Garcia, Philip; Dixon, Bruce L.; Mjelde, James W.; Adams, Richard M.

doi:10.1016/0095-0696(86)90017-3

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“…The more difficult problem is to discover how much damage ozone would have done if plant breeders had not possibly inadvertently selected for ozone tolerance over a long period. If this can be established, it would help to explain why the early econometric studies gave much larger elasticities (Garcia et al, 1986;Young, 1993). Fig.…”

Section: E Kaliakatsou Et Al / Environmental Pollution XXXmentioning

confidence: 93%

The impact of tropospheric ozone pollution on trial plot winter wheat yields in Great Britain – An econometric approach

Kaliakatsou

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Thirtle

et al. 2010

Environmental Pollution

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Econometric study of British winter wheat trial plot data suggests lower economic loss than predicted from experiments. a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c tNumerous experiments have demonstrated reductions in the yields of cereal crops due to tropospheric O 3 , with losses of up to 25%. However, the only British econometric study on O 3 impacts on winter wheat yields, found that a 10% increase in AOT40 would decrease yields by only 0.23%. An attempt is made here to reconcile these observations by developing AOT40 maps for Great Britain and matching levels with a large number of standardised trial plot wheat yields from many sites over a 13-year period. Panel estimates (repeated measures on the same plots with time) show a 0.54% decrease in yields and it is hypothesised that plant breeders may have inadvertently selected for O 3 tolerance in wheat. Some support for this is provided by fumigations of cultivars of differing introduction dates. A case is made for the use of econometric as well as experimental studies in prediction of air pollution induced crop loss.

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Section: E Kaliakatsou Et Al / Environmental Pollution XXXmentioning

confidence: 93%

The impact of tropospheric ozone pollution on trial plot winter wheat yields in Great Britain – An econometric approach

Kaliakatsou

Bell

Thirtle

et al. 2010

Environmental Pollution

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“…The second class is comprised of watershed pollution flows (essentially negative externalities) which have been considered in studies using dose-response (Freeman, 1979) and duality (Garcia et al, 1986;Kopp et al, 1985). A final class of services include collection of water, fuelwood, and minor forest products, as well as the hunting and fishing activities of agrarian and pastoral communities.…”

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“…Our proposed approach also draws on empirical analyses of two classes of ecosystem services, most subject to economic analyses: (a) wetlands services (Swallow, 1994;Lynne et al, 1981), (b) ozone pollution (Kopp et al, 1985;Garcia et al, 1986). In both cases, some proxy for the ecosystem service (e.g.…”

Section: Previous Economic Studies Of Watershed Servicesmentioning

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Valuing watershed services: concepts and empirics from southeast Asia

Pattanayak

2004

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

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Few empirical studies have rigorously analyzed the downstream economic benefits of watershed protection to generate economic values of watershed services. By developing a conceptual framework and using household level economic and environmental data to illustrate its empirical tractability, this paper addresses the neglected, but critical, question of the importance of watershed services to farming communities in southeast Asia. A case study from Flores, Indonesia provides evidence of a substantive, quantified economic benefit of watershed service based on a fixed-effects regression model of water collection costs. The paper also offers lessons for researchers at all stages of data collection and analysis and a research agenda for enhancing our toolkit for policy analysis. This discussion of conceptual, empirical and methodological issues collectively suggests that ecosystem valuation can provide critical input into the design and evaluation of conservation and development policies in the tropics.

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“…First, econometric models are based on actual field data, whereas mathematical programming models usually are based on experimental data for crop yield responses to ozone. Second, the reliability of the econometric model can be statistically tested (Mjelde et al, 1984;Garcia et al, 1986), whereas the mathematical programming model can not provide information necessary to test statistical reliability. However, it is difficult to get the individual farm-level data needed for the econometric model.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A few studies (e.g., Mjelde et al, 1984;Garcia et al, 1986) use an econometric approach to estimate the impact of pollution on crops. In this approach, actual farm output is estimated as a function of actual pollution levels and other variables.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%