INCENTIVE-BASED POLICIES FOR CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLLUTION AND OUTPUT

Madhu Khanna, Murat Isik and David Zilberman ()

No 21803, 2000 Annual meeting, July 30-August 2, Tampa, FL from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: The cost-effectiveness of alternative green payment policies designed to achieve a targeted level of abatement by heterogeneous microunits is analyzed. Abatement costs and implications for production and government payments are compared using a simulation model for controlling drainage from cotton production in California with drip irrigation as a conservation technology.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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