Estimating the range of economic impacts on farms of nutrient leaching reduction policies

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-205

  Fezzi, Carlo ^a   Rigby, Dan ^b   Bateman, Ian J ^a   Hadley, David ^a   Posen, Paulette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Farm accounts; Farm financial impacts; Nitrate and phosphate leaching; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; INCOME; LEACHING; POVERTY; REDUCTION; RURAL AREA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BOVINAE;

EID: 50649095209     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2008.00323.x     Document Type: Article

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