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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Some Hard Truths About Agriculture and the Environment
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| Autores: |
Lichtenberg, Erik
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| Data: |
2006-06-09
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| Ano: |
2004
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| Palavras-chave: |
Environmental Economics and Policy
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| Resumo: |
Environmental problems in agriculture have proven difficult to address due to the spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability intrinsic to agriculture. Agriculture is largely a struggle against nature; both its sustainability and the prospects for improving environmental performance and farm income simultaneously are thus inherently limited. Agriculture's high degree of variability makes direct regulation inefficient. Subsidies for improving environmental performance can have negative consequences and have proven ineffective in practice, due largely to bureaucratic culture. Pollution taxes should be the most effective and efficient form of policy. Interdisciplinary research is needed to provide models for performance evaluation.
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| Tipo: |
Journal Article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
22286
http://purl.umn.edu/31372
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review>Volume 33, Number 1, April 2004
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| Formato: |
10
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