Agricultural Policy and the Environment

by Meiners, Roger E.; Yandle, Bruce; Avery, Alex; Avery, Dennis; Blacklocke, Sean; Gardner, B Delworth; Goklany, Indur M.; Hill, Peter J.; Hosemann, John K.; Hunter, W Walker; Libecap, Gary D.; McCormick, Roger E.; Morriss, Andrew P.; Utt, Joshua A.

• ISBN13: 9780742527690
• ISBN10: 0742527697
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This book pulls back the wrappings that cloak U.S. agriculture and explains how and why politics has affected the traditional stewardship role played by agriculture.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction Agricultural Policy and the Environment: Problems, Prospects, and Prosperity	xi
Roger E. Meiners
Bruce Yandle
What's So Special about the Farm?	1	(18)
Peter J. Hill
Agricultural Commons Problems and Responses: Sick Hogs at the Through	19	(26)
Roger E. Meiners
Andrew P. Morriss
Regulating Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Internalization or Cartelization?	45	(22)
Bruce Yandle
Sean Blacklocke
Legal Impediments to Transferring Agricultural Water to Other Uses	67	(22)
B. Delworth Gardner
Agricultural Programs with Dubious Environmental Benefits: The Political Economy of Ethanol	89	(18)
Gary D. Libecap
Agricultural Technology and the Precautionary Principle	107	(28)
Indur M. Goklany
High-Yield Conservation: More Food and Environmental Quality through Intensive Agriculture	135	(16)
Alex Avery
Dennis Avery
Carbon Emission, Carbon Sinks, and Global Warming	151	(22)
Joshua A. Utt
W. Walker Hunter
Robert E. McCormick
Agriculture and the Environment: A Thirty-Year Retrospective	173	(20)
John K. Hosemann
Index	193	(6)
About the Political Economy Forum Series	199	(2)
About the Contributors	201