Public goods and externalities: Agri-environmental Policy Measures in Australia

David Pannell and Anna Roberts
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Anna Roberts: Natural Decisions Pty Ltd

No 80, 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 Australia aims to improve the understanding of best policy measures to provide agri-environmental public goods and reduce agri-environmental public bads by looking at the experience of Australia. 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 and externalities: Agri-environmental policy measures in selected OECD countries.

Keywords: agri-environmental policies; Australia; externalities; public goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q52 Q53 Q54 Q55 Q56 Q57 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06-01
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