Can economic incentives encourage actual reductions in pesticide use and environmental spillovers?

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 267-276

  Skevas, Theodoros ^a   Stefanou, Spiro E ^a,b   Lansink, Alfons Oude ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic instruments; Pesticides; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; CASH CROPPING; CROP PRODUCTION; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PESTICIDE; SPILLOVER EFFECT; TAX INCENTIVE; TOXICITY;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84859950936     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2012.00581.x     Document Type: Article

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