Economic Impacts of Soil Erosion Control

Voluntary and Mandated Institutional Controls on Soil Conservation Behavior of U.S. and Australian Farmers

“…The relatively positive attitudes, regardless of institutional program, contrasts with the much more negative assumptions of those who have calculated such payoffs (e.g., Miller 1982;Seitz et al 1979). While a positive attitude encourages the farmer to initiate conservation behavior, it is not sufficient by itself.…”

Trust and Communication: Mechanisms for Increasing Farmers' Participation in Water Quality Trading

“…Conservation measures can indeed create greater uncertainty about future productivity and profitability (McSweeny and Kramer 1986). Farmers seldom realize savings from conservation practices in the short term (e.g., Wade and Heady 1978;Seitz et al 1979;Putnam and Alt 1987;Batte and Bacon 1995). To the contrary, farmers may face substantial capital costs for new equipment and opportunity costs associated with taking land out of production or devoting time to new practices.…”

Extending the framework of the economic evaluation of erosion control actions in Mediterranean basins

“…(j) Research on the effects of soil erosion on the recreational value of land using the travel cost method (Feather and Hellerstein, 1997;Hellerstein, 1998;Hansen et al, 1999;Feather et al, 1999). (k) Cost benefit analyses (CBA), such as those of Graaf (1994) and Araya and Asafu-Adjaye (1999), building on the pioneer work of Seitz et al (1979) to measure the impact of erosion control techniques. (l) The most recent approaches, using stated preference techniques, such as contingent valuation, choice experiments and contingent ranking.…”