2004
DOI: 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2004.00560.x
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From Microlevel Decisions to Landscape Changes: An Assessment of Agricultural Conservation Policies

Abstract: The growth in federal conservation programs has created a need for policy modeling frameworks capable of measuring micro-level behavioral responses and macro-level landscape changes. This paper presents an empirical model that predicts crop choices, crop rotations, and conservation tillage adoption as a function of conservation payment levels, profits, and other variables at more than 42,000 agricultural sites of the National Resource Inventory (NRI) in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Predicted changes in c… Show more

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“…This can lead to the loss of that crucial spatial variation in the physical environment which substantially determines agricultural production (e.g. Wu et al, 2004) and is vital to the determination of ecosystem service inputs and their value.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This can lead to the loss of that crucial spatial variation in the physical environment which substantially determines agricultural production (e.g. Wu et al, 2004) and is vital to the determination of ecosystem service inputs and their value.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A number of studies have examined the effect of conservation and/or land use policies on land use and the subsequent impact on water quality (see Wu et al 2004 for a review of these studies). Most of these studies are undertaken at the farm or watershed level.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although the nonlinear nature of the impact of such biophysical processes has not been adequately addressed by previous empirical, economic analyses of conservation programs (Wu, 2003;Wu et al, 2004), the present study contributes to the literature by demonstrating how a set of these relationships could be modeled in an agricultural watershed. The ability to model acute and cumulative fisheries impacts from changes in agricultural practices has importance as a potential tool for: (a) measuring the effectiveness of performance-based conservation practices under programs like CSP; (b) establishing an effective total maximum daily load (TMDL) for agricultural watersheds ; (c) modeling the effectiveness of conservation practices at addressing TMDLs; and (d) estimating the associated economic costs to agriculture in addressing TMDLs.…”
Section: Review Of Literaturementioning
confidence: 89%
“…For an ex ante analysis of how cost-effective conservation programs might be, or to determine how successfully such programs might address the environmental concerns for which they were designed, an integrated bioeconomic model is crucial (Wu et al, 2004). With an integrated approach, a bioeconomic model incorporates the field-level economic information of land use changes and the biophysical or environmental impacts of these alternative land management systems and aggregates them up to a larger scale, such as a watershed or river sub-basin or basin.…”
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confidence: 99%