The most comprehensive water policy analysis conducted on the High Plains region to date was the High Plains Ogallala Regional Aquifer Study completed in 1982. Twenty years later, we had a unique opportunity to compare the ...
This article proposes a method to accommodate asymmetric information on farmers’ risk preferences in designing voluntary environmental policies. By incorporating stochastic efficiency rules in a mechanism design problem, ...
Peterson, Jeffrey M.; Boisvert, Richard N.; de Gorter, Harry(2002)
This paper derives the efficient set of policies for a multifunctional agriculture and relates them to trade. In general, efficiency cannot be achieved through simple output subsidies, but the efficient policies to move ...
A common policy prescription for conserving irrigation water is to promote more efficient or “water-saving” irrigation technologies. We develop a risk programming model to quantify the effect of irrigation efficiency on ...
Smith, Craig M.; Peterson, Jeffrey M.; Leatherman, John C.; Williams, Jeffery R.(2012)
While there is substantial evidence that nonpoint sources have lower nutrient reduction costs than point sources, experience with water quality trading (WQT) reveals a common theme: little or no trading activity. The success ...