Agricultural Policy and the Environment

This book pulls back the wrappings that cloak U.S. agriculture and explains how and why politics has affected the traditional stewardship role played by agriculture.

List of contents

Chapter 1 List of Tables and Figures Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction: Agricultural Policy and the Environment: Problems, Prospects, and Prosperity Chapter 4 What's So Special about the Farm? Chapter 5 Agricultural Commons Problems and Responses: Sick Hogs at the Trough Chapter 6 Regulating Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Internalization or Cartelization? Chapter 7 Legal Impediments to Transferring Agricultural Water to Other Uses Chapter 8 Agricultural Programs with Dubious Environmental Benefits: The Political Economy of Ethanol Chapter 9 Agricultural Technology and the Precautionary Principle Chapter 10 More Food and Environmental Quality through Intensive Agriculture Chapter 11 Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sinks, and Global Warming Chapter 12 Agriculture and the Environment: A Thirty Year Retrospective Chapter 13 Index Chapter 14 About the Political Economy Forum Series Chapter 15 About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by Roger E. Meiners and Bruce Yandle - Contributions by Alex Avery; Dennis Avery; Sean Blacklocke; B Delworth Gardner; Indur M. Goklany; Peter J. Hill; John K. Hosemann; W Walker Hunter; Gary D. Libecap; Roger E. McCormick; Andrew P. Morriss and Jo

Summary

This book pulls back the wrappings that cloak U.S. agriculture and explains how and why politics has affected the traditional stewardship role played by agriculture.

Product details

• Authors: Roger E. Meiners
• Assisted by: Roger Meiners (Editor), Roger E Meiners (Editor), Roger E. Meiners (Editor), Meiners Roger E. (Editor), Bruce Yandle (Editor), Yandle Bruce (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2003
• EAN: 9780742527690
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-2769-0
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 230 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Series: Political Economy Forum (Paper; The Political Economy Forum; The Political Economy Forum; Political Economy Forum (Paper
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Agriculture and farming, AGRICULTURE & FARMING