Quantifying pesticide overuse from farmer and societal points of view: An application to Thailand

Crop Protection

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 161-168

  Grovermann, Christian ^a   Schreinemachers, Pepijn ^b   Berger, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b AVRDC THE WORLD VEGETABLE CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Damage control; Externality; Pesticide Environmental Accounting (PEA); Pesticide policy; Production function; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PEST DAMAGE; PESTICIDE; POLICY MAKING;

THAILAND;

EID: 84882681867     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2013.07.013     Document Type: Article

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