Pesticide use and regulation: Making economic sense out of an externality and regulation nightmare

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 321-332

  Zilberman, David ^a,b   Millock, Katti ^b  

^a Dept of Agric and Rsrc Economics ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Externalities; Monitoring; Pesticides; Precision agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031331127     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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