Economic Analysis of Environmental and Natural Resource Problems in Agriculture

摘要

Recent years have seen a growing awareness that many environmental problems arecaused by inappropriate government policies (e.g., subsidies that promote the use of harmful chemicals). Despite the simultaneous presence of both types of problems, most analyses have focused on one or the other exclusively. The paper proposes an approach for combining cost-benefit analysis and the Policy Analysis Matrix into a single framework that allows a more integrated analysis of environmental and natural resource problems.