Evaluating environmental risks using safety-first constraints

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 402-413

  Qiu, Zeyuan ^a   Prato, Tony ^a   McCamley, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

And nitrogen runoff; Chance constrained programming; Environmental risk; Safety first; Sedimentation; Target MOTAD; Upper partial moment

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; METHODOLOGY; NITROGEN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNOFF;

EID: 0034998920     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0002-9092.00165     Document Type: Article

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