TY - JOUR
T1 - Pesticide externalities from the US agricultural sector - The impact of internalization, reduced pesticide application rates, and climate change
AU - Koleva, Nikolinka G.
AU - Schneider, Uwe A.
AU - McCarl, Bruce A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has received partial funding from the International Max-Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs, the European Commission, the Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP) cluster of excellence at Hamburg University, and the Michael Otto Foundation for Environmental Protection.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This study uses mathematical programming to examine alternative assumptions about regulations of external costs from pesticide applications in US agriculture. We find that, without external cost regulation, climate change benefits from increased agricultural production in the US may be more than offset by increased environmental costs. The internalization of the pesticide externalities increase farmers’ production costs but increase farmers’ income because of price adjustments and associated welfare shifts from consumers to producers. Our results also show that full internalizations of external pesticide costs substantially reduces preferred pesticide applications rates for corn and soybeans as climate change.
AB - This study uses mathematical programming to examine alternative assumptions about regulations of external costs from pesticide applications in US agriculture. We find that, without external cost regulation, climate change benefits from increased agricultural production in the US may be more than offset by increased environmental costs. The internalization of the pesticide externalities increase farmers’ production costs but increase farmers’ income because of price adjustments and associated welfare shifts from consumers to producers. Our results also show that full internalizations of external pesticide costs substantially reduces preferred pesticide applications rates for corn and soybeans as climate change.
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - climate change impacts
KW - pesticide externalities
KW - farm management adaptation
KW - agricultural sector model
KW - welfare maximization
KW - environmental policy analysis
KW - United States
KW - climate change impacts
KW - pesticide externalities
KW - farm management adaptation
KW - agricultural sector model
KW - welfare maximization
KW - environmental policy analysis
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84857438729
U2 - 10.1016/j.proenv.2011.05.016
DO - 10.1016/j.proenv.2011.05.016
M3 - Journal articles
SN - 1878-0296
VL - 6
SP - 153
EP - 161
JO - Procedia Environmental Sciences
JF - Procedia Environmental Sciences
ER -
