Farm-level impacts of prolonged drought: Is a multiyear event more than the sum of its parts

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-60

  Peck, Dannele E ^a   Adams, Richard M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop rotations; Inter year dynamics; Multiyear drought; Stochastic integer programming

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP ROTATION; DROUGHT; FUTURE PROSPECT; STOCHASTICITY; VULNERABILITY; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 75649089339     PISSN: 1364985X     EISSN: 14678489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8489.2009.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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