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Agriculture and Environmental Policy: Recent United States and Australian Developments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Bengt Hyberg  and
Sean Pascoe
Bengt Hyberg
Affiliation:
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Sean Pascoe
Affiliation:
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Abstract

Agricultural development in both the United States and Australia has led to suboptimal levels of environmental degradation. While both countries face similar forms of agricultural environmental degradation, the different resource endowment and population distributions have resulted in a different incidence of the costs of these problems. Increasing demand for environmental services and better information on off-site damages have led to increasing demand for reform of agricultural, rural development, and environmental programs to eliminate biases against practices viewed as more environmentally compatible.

Type
The Effects of Agricultural Production on Environmental Quality
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Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , April 1991 , pp. 114 - 123
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Copyright © 1991 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the policies or the views of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. The authors would like to thank C. Edwin Young. Stephanie Mercier. Harold Stults, and the anonymous referees for helpful comments.

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