Public Goods and Externalities: Agri-environmental Policy Measures in the United States

James Shortle and Tetsuya Uetake

No 84, OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Agriculture is a provider of commodities such as food, feed, fibre and fuel and, it can also bring both positive and negative impacts on the environment such as biodiversity, water and soil quality. These environmental externalities from agricultural activities may also have characteristics of non-rivalry and non-excludability. When they have these characteristics, they can be defined as agri-environmental public goods. Agri-environmental public goods need not necessarily be desirable; that is, they may cause harm and can be defined as agri-environmental public bads. Public Goods and Externalities: Agri-environmental Policy Measures in the United States aims to improve our understanding of the best policy measures to provide agri-environmental public goods and reduce agri-environmental public bads, by looking at the experiences of the United States. This report provides information to contribute to policy design addressing the provision of agri-environmental public goods including the reduction of agri-environmental public bads. It is one of the five country case studies (Australia, Japan, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States), which provide inputs into the main OECD book, Public Goods, Externalities and Agri-environmental Policy Measures.

Keywords: agri-environmental policies; externalities; public goods; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q52 Q53 Q54 Q56 Q57 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-env and nep-res
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1787/5js08hwhg8mw-en (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oec:agraaa:84-en

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers from OECD Publishing Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().