Environmental costing for agriculture: Will it be standard fare in the farm bill of 2000
- North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh (United States)
This paper starts by discussing and estimating the environmental costs of agricultural production. The author uses a separate benefit transfer intended to expose methodological issues to construct each cost category of agricultures's external effects. This is followed by a simple description of the framework for production decisions that account for environmental costs. Included are attribution of environmental externalities and measurement of environmental costs. Finally the author discusses research implications of environmental costing, including TQM and environmental policy analyses, environmental services and their unit values, strategies for measuring environmental values, and prognosis for agricultural adders. 42 refs., 1 fig., 1 tab.
- OSTI ID:
- 6680038
- Journal Information:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics; (United States), Vol. 74:5; ISSN 0002-9092
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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