An economic analysis of wind erosion control in the inner Mongolia Plateau, China

Dayuan Hu, Richard Ready and Angelos Pagoulatos

Environmental & Resource Economics, 1995, vol. 6, issue 4, 340 pages

Abstract: This study investigates specific changes in farming practices aimed at reducing wind erosion from cropland in the inner Mongolia Plateau, China, and incorporates the value of dust reduction in downwind regions into a formal cost-benefit framework, both from the farmer's perspective and society's perspective. The result shows the need for incorporating off-site damages from wind erosion in policy analyses. Measurement of the off-site damages is difficult, especially in a mixed economy such as China's. A conservative estimate was obtained by benefit transfer from a non-market valuation study conducted in a developed country. This conservative estimate was large enough to be decisive in the policy analysis. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1995

Keywords: Cost-benefit analysis; wind erosion; soil conservation; off-site damages; benefit transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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