Titlebook: Risk Management and the Environment: Agriculture in Perspective; Bruce A. Babcock (Professor of Agricultural Econom Book 2003 Springer Sci

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The Precautionary Principle in Practice: How to Write a Call Option on the Environmentaven’t sorted out what we mean by the term “option value.” To avoid confusion in this chapter, I will try to be precise in defining how risk affects decisions. This will, hopefully, lead to more precise results about how to value our options for preserving the environment.

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Factors Determining Best Management Practice Adoption Incentives and the Impact of Green Insuranceor example split nitrogen applications, soil nutrient testing, precision agriculture, and integrated pest management. Analyses often show that these and similar BMPs generate savings by reduced input use that more than cover BMP costs, yet producers do not readily adopt such practices.

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Conclusionasingly exposed over this period to market as well as other sources of risk. And, although at first glance it may be thought that this book comprises a diverse range of contributions to a very broad topic, a closer scrutiny shows that two key themes run strongly through both the theoretical and case studies parts of the book.

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Risk Management and the Environment in Agriculture: A Key Policy Themeicy changes over this period have increasingly exposed farmers to market risk, while other sources of risk on the production side have also become more apparent. As a consequence, producers’ risk management skills and the instruments used to manage risk have become a central feature of the farm mana

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The Precautionary Principle in Practice: How to Write a Call Option on the Environmentpopular, used by many applied economists. The second is dynamic investment theory, used by financial economists. The third is difficult to name. It is the approach we as natural resource and environmental economists use. It seems to be a mixture of philosophy, common sense, and confusion. We still h

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Factors Determining Best Management Practice Adoption Incentives and the Impact of Green Insurances pollution can generally be reduced or even eliminated by reducing input use through improved efficiency and by using non-polluting or less polluting substitutes such as information and insurance. Best management practices (BMPs) relying on increased information and improved timing already exist, f

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Uncertainty and Adoption of Sustainable Farming Systemsmpediments to that adoption, and possible measures to promote adoption. Implicit in this interest is a perception that, despite the existence of government programs, adoption by farmers of “sustainable”. farming practices has been lower and slower than would be socially optimal (e.g. Lockie and Vanc