Regulation of pesticide discharge into surface and groundwater under uncertainty: A model for environmental risk-profitability tradeoffs and policy selection

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 211-220

  Willett, Keith ^a   Zhang, Tim ^a   McTernan, William F ^b   Sharda, Ramesh ^a   Rossman, Edwin J ^c  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Oklahoma State University   (United States)

^c U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH RISKS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC POLICY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; GOAL PROGRAMMING MODEL; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS; PUBLIC POLICY DECISIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GROUNDWATER; MODELING; PESTICIDE; PROFITABILITY; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; SURFACE WATER; TRADE-OFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 27144471081     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019005226304     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. P.A. Arora and W.F. McTernan, An expert system to determine the probability of pesticide leaching, Agricultural Water Management 25 (1994) 57-70.
2. B.P. Baker, Groundwater protection policy and agricultural production: A recursive stochastic analysis, Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 17 (1988) 131-138.
3. B. Barnett, B. Blake and B.A. McCarl, Goal programming via multidimensional scaling applied to senegalese subsistance farms, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 64 (1982) 720-727.
4. W. Boggess, J.A. Miranowski and E.O. Heady, Sediment damage and farm production costs: A multiple-objective analysis, North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics 2 (1980) 107-112.
5. J.B. Braden, R.S. Larson and E.E. Herricks, Impact targets versus discharge standards in agricultural pollution management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 72(2) (1991) 388-397.
6. R.F. Carsel, R.S. Parish, R.L. Jones, J.L. Hansen and R.L. Lamb, Characterizing the uncertainty of pesticide movement in agricultural soils, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 2 (1988) 97-116.
7. D.G. Carvey and T.E. Croley, Hydrologic and economic models for watershed evaluation and research, Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, Tech. Rep. No. 277 (1984).
8. Z. Chen and W.F. McTernan, Model uncertainty and parameter sensitivity in linear retardance formulations, Journal of Environmental Systems 21(2) (1992) 101-120.
9. J.L. Cohon, Multiobjective Programming and Planning (Academic Press, New York, 1978).
10. J.L. Cohon and D.H. Marks, A review and evaluation of multiobjective programming techniques, Water Resources Research 11 (1975) 208-220.
11. M.S. Common, The choice of pollution control instruments: Why is so little taken of economists' recommendations?, Environment and Planning A21 (1988) 1297-1314.
12. A.J. Conway, A role for economic instruments in reconciling agricultural and environmental policy in accordance with polluter pays principle, European Review of Agricultural Economics 18 (1991) 467-484.
13. B.T. Daniels and W.F. McTernan, A screening method of identify the probabilities of pesticide leaching, Agricultural Water Management 25 (1992) 23-34.
14. B.T. Daniels and W.F. McTernan, A screening method to identify the probabilities of nonpoint source pesticide contamination of shallow aquifers, Agricultural Water Management 25 (1994) 23-34.
15. S.M. Gorelick, A review of distributed parameter groundwater modeling methods, Water Resources Research 19 (1982) 305-319.
16. E.L. Hannan, An assessment of some criticisms of goal programming, Computers and Operations Research 12 (1985) 525-541.
17. G.S. Harper and D. Zilberman, Pesticides and worker safety, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74 (1992) 64-78.
18. A.J. Hogan, J.G. Morris and H.E. Thompson, Decision problems under risk and chance constrained programming: Dilemmas in the transition, Management Science 27 (1981) 698-716.
19. J.J. Jacobs and G.L. Casler, Internalizing externalities of phosphorus discharges from crop production to surface water: Effluent taxes versus uniform reductions, American Journal of Agricultural Economic 55 (1979) 309-312.
20. A.J. Keown and J.D. Martin, An integer goal programming model for capital budgeting in hospitals, Financial Management 5 (1976) 28-35.
21. A.J. Keown and J.D. Martin, Capital budgeting in the public sector: A zero-one goal programming approach, Financial Management 7 (1978) 21-27.
22. J.G. Lee, S.B. Lovejoy and D.B. Beasley, Soil loss reduction in Finley Creek, Indiana: An analysis of alternative policies, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 40 (1985) 132-135.
23. E. Lichtenberg, Determination of regional environmental policy under uncertainty: Theory and case studies, in: The Economics and Management of Water and Drainage in Agriculture, eds. A. Dinar and D. Zilberman (Kluwer, New York, 1991).
24. E. Lichtenberg, Alternative approaches to pesticide regulation, Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 21 (1992) 83-92.
25. E. Lichtenberg and D. Zilberman, Efficient regulation of environmental health risk, Quarterly Journal of Economics 49 (1988) 167-178.
26. W.F. McTernan and E.D. Mize, Simulated effects of irrigation management in groundwater contamination, Agricultural Water Management 20 (1992) 281-297.
27. W.L. Miller and J.H. Gill, Equity considerations in controlling non-point pollution from agricultural sources, Water Research Bulletin 12 (1976) 253-261.
28. K. Mukherjee and A. Bera, Application of goal programming in project selection - a case study from the Indian coal mining industry, European Journal of Operational Research 82 (1995) 18-25.
29. W.P. Neely, R.M. North and J.C. Fortson, An operational approach to multiple objective decision making for public water resources projects using integer goal programming, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1977) 198-203.