- A Framework for Assessment of California Agroecosystems
Tom Tomich, Kelly Garbach, Canter, Agricultural Sustainability Institute, UC Davis (pdf, 2400 kb, 2007)
- Modeling Agroecosystem Services for Policy Analysis
John Antle, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University
(pdf, 190 kb, 2007)
- Evaluating Regulation and Conservation Policy
for California’s Agri-environmental Externalities
Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech. (pdf, 575 kb, 2007)
- Using Biophysical Information in Policies for Agroecosystem Services in California
Louise Jackson, Department of Air, Water, and Land Resources, UC Davis (pdf, 440 kb, 2007)
AIC ISSUES BRIEFS
The Value of Tradable
Credits for Rice Straw Burning (no. 12, 2000, pdf)
Marc Carey, Daniel A. Sumner and Richard E. Howitt summarize
their analysis of the cost savings available to the Sacramento
Valley rice industry through trading of burn credits.
Water Transfers and Groundwater
Management: An Economic Analysis (no. 7, 1998, html)
Marca Weinberg, Keith Knapp, Richard Howitt and Judith Posnikoff
summarize a case study of the potential effects on groundwater
and on agricultural production of reduced surface water use
resulting from water market transfers with and without groundwater
management.
Economic Impacts of Irrigation
Water Cuts in the Sacramento Valley (no. 1, 1997, html)
Hyunok Lee, Daniel A. Sumner, and Richard E. Howitt address the
question: If a substantial part of the Sacramento Valley's irrigation
supply became unavailable, what would be the economic effects on
farmers and on communities---and where would the loss hit hardest? |
AIC QUARTERLY ARTICLES
(You may have to browse the Quarterly to find the indicated
article.)
Volume 16, No 1, 2002
(pdf)
Energy crisis powers down; long-term effects uncertain
Volume 14, No. 1, 2000
(pdf)
Trading of Rice Straw Burn Credits
Volume 13, No. 3, 1999 (html)
Report Looks at Economics of Irrigation Water Losses
Volume 11, No. 4, 1997
(html)
Grower Survey on Rice Straw Disposal
AIC Program on Resources and Environment
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RELATED LINKS
AIC Associate
Director Keith Knapp's University of California, Riverside,
Environmental Sciences Faculty Webpage
California Department
of Pesticide Regulation
California
Department of Conservation
California Department
of Water Resources
California Resources
Agency
California Environmental
Protection Agency
United States Department
of Agriculture, Forest Service
United States Department
of Agriculture, National Resources Conservation Service
United States Environmental
Protection Agency
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