NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT - CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENT

• Sponsoring Institution: Economic Research Service/USDA
• Project Status: ACTIVE
• Funding Source: USDA INHOUSE
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 0433786
• Project Start Date: Oct 1, 2008
• Project End Date: Sep 30, 2025
• Program Code: [(N/A)]- (N/A)

Recipient Organization
USDA/ERS
1800 M STREET NW
WASHINGTON,DC 20036

Performing Department
Economic Research Service

Non Technical Summary
Agricultural production affects the quality of natural resources. Conservation policies work to prevent damage to the environment, restore the resource base, and promote good land management. Conservation and environment research focuses on economic and environmental outcomes of conservation policies, efficient program design, and changes in demand for ecosystem services such as water quality.

Animal Health Component

100%

Research Effort Categories

Basic

0%

Applied

100%

Developmental

(N/A)

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
605	6110	3010	100%

Knowledge Area
605 - Natural Resource and Environmental Economics;

Subject Of Investigation
6110 - Economy of the United States and sectors thereof;

Field Of Science
3010 - Economics;

Keywords

conservation

ecosystem services

environmental policy

Goals / Objectives
The management practices farmers use to produce crops can also degrade our Nation's natural resources through soil erosion, nutrient loss, pesticide loss, water use, and habitat loss, affecting the flow of ecosystem services desired by society. Conservation and environmental programs work to prevent damage to natural resources and the environment, restore the resource base, and promote good land management by providing financial resources and other incentives to farmers. ERS analyzes the impacts of agricultural production on regional-or national-scale environmental indicators, and tracks conservation program funding levels and analyzes trends in support for the four types of conservation assistance: working land programs, land retirement programs, easement programs, and conservation technical assistance. ERS research examines the cost-effectiveness and distributional impacts of conservation policies and programs, with an emphasis on identifying conservation program design features that increase environmental gain per program dollar. ERS also investigates the environmental impact of broader agricultural policies and programs, such as crop insurance, and environmental policies of EPA and other Federal agencies on land use, input use, and conservation practice adoption.

Project Methods
Research on conservation and environment requires a full understanding of the economics literature on resource and environmental policy, managing agricultural risk, non-market valuation, ecosystem services, and behavioral economics. There is a large literature available to use in the analysis of most research questions, but the bigger challenge is applying appropriate statistical techniques to handle missing or inadequate data. Often, methods for dealing with specific data inadequacies need to be adapted from other areas. The project employs a multifaceted approach in conducting conservation and environment research. Research is conducted internally by ERS staff as well as through a portfolio of external research projects and partnerships. Studies conducted by ERS staff makes use of the agency's internal research capital and specialized knowledge base while the external program enables ERS to draw on the multidisciplinary expertise of nationally known conservation, resource, and environmental science researchers and the resources of numerous research organizations and universities across the country. To support research a considerable amount of resources are devoted to collecting data and building and maintaining computer simulation models that link the agricultural sector to environmental indicators. The project uses a strong economic framework to guide the research. The research focuses on two core areas: 1) conservation and environmental policies and 2) natural resource, environment, and agricultural system linkages. Examples of ERS analyses include: â¿¢ The use of markets to promote conservation, â¿¢ Factors affecting the adoption of conservation practices, â¿¢ Additionality in U.S. conservation programs, â¿¢ Costs to the livestock sector of improving manure management, â¿¢ How changes in diets affect food demand, production practices, and the environment (water withdrawals, soil erosion, nutrient use and runoff), â¿¢ Costs to the agriculture sector of reducing nutrient loads to the Gulf of Mexico to address hypoxia.

Progress 01/01/01 to 09/30/16

Outputs
This project anticipates trends and emerging issues by conducting high-quality, objective economic research as part of the USDA ERS mission to inform and enhance public and private decision making on economic and policy issues related to food, farming, natural resources and rural America. Findings and impacts are represented through a variety of outputs including reports, journal articles, briefings, and conference presentations. ERS shapes its research program and products to serve those who routinely make or influence public policy and program decisions. Key clientele include White House and USDA policy officials; the U.S. Congress; program administrators/managers; other Federal agencies; State and local government officials; and organizations, including farm and industry groups interested in public policy issues. Current listings of ERS published reports and data products, and journal articles by ERS researchers, can be found at www.ers.usda.gov

Impacts
(N/A)

Publications

• Aillery, M., Agapoff, J., Gollehon, N., Breneman, V., Ribaudo, M., "Competition for Land to Spread Manure under Changing Water-Quality Guidelines: An Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed", Soil and Water Conservation Society, pp.
• Aillery, M., Gollehon, N., "Beyond Water-Quality Regulations for CAFOs? Manure Management Costs to meet Air-Quality Objectives", AAEA Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, pp.
• Aillery, M., Gollehon, N., "Beyond Water-Quality Regulations for CAFOs? Manure Management Costs to Meet Air-Quality Objectives", Selected Paper - AAEA Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, pp.
• Aillery, M., Gollehon, N., Ribaudo, M., "A Regional Modeling Structure for Assessing Costs of Implementing Manure Nutrient Standards: Application to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed", paper presentation -AAEA Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 26, 2003. pp.
• Carriazo, F., Claassen, R., Cooper, J., "Crop Insurance, Disaster Payments, and Incentives for Land Use Change in Agriculture", selected paper presented at the AAEA Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, July 27, 2009. pp.
• Cattaneo, Andrea, Daniel Hellerstein, Cynthia Nickerson and Christina Myers, 2006, Balancing the Multiple Objectives in Conservation Programs, Economic Research Report, ERR-19, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, May, pp.
• Charles A.Towe, Cynthia J. Nickerson, and Nancy Bockstael, 2008, "An Empirical Examination of the Timing of Land Conversions in the Presence of Farmland Preservation Programs", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 90, No. 3, pp. 613-626
• Charles R. Loesch, Ronald E. Reynolds, LeRoy Hansen, "An Economic Assessment of Re-directing Breeding Waterfowl Habitat Conservation Efforts in Regard to Climate Change", pp.
• Cho, SH, Yu, E., Roberts, R., Kim, Seunggyu, Lee, DG, 2012, "Applying Directed Acyclic Graphs to Assist Specification of a Hedonic Model", Housing Studies, pp.
• Christensen, L., Nehring, R., ODonoghue, E., Sandretto, C., "Challenges to Dairy Farms from New Manure Management Regulations, Structural Change, and Urbanization", Selected paper for NAEA annual meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, pp.
• Cindy Nickerson, Daniel Hellerstein, 2007, "Farmland Preservation Programs: Another Tool for Managing Urban Growth?", Amber Waves, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, April, pp.
• Claassen, R., "2014 Farm Act continues (most) previous trends in conservation", U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Claassen, R., "Additionality in U.S. Agri-Environmental Programs for Working Land: A Preliminary Look at New Data", OECD Workshop on Evaluating Agri-Environmental Programs, Braunschweig, Germany, pp.
• Claassen, R., "Agricultural Conservation Programs: An Overview", Wisconsin Leadership Forum, Washington DC, pp.
• Claassen, R., "Agricultural Conservation Programs: Effective Use of Economic Tools", Outdoor Resources Review Group, Washington, DC, February 25, 2009. pp.
• Claassen, R., "Agricultural Conservation Programs: Effective Use of Economic Tools", Presentation to the NRC Committee on Twenty-First Century Systems Agriculture, Washington, DC, pp.
• Claassen, R., "Agricultural Conservation Programs: Funding and Cost Effectiveness", Outdoor Resources Review Group, Washington, DC, pp.
• Claassen, R., "ARMS Phase 2: Production Practice and Costs Data", AAEA Post-Conference on Federal Micro Data, Washington DC, pp.
• Claassen, R., "Buying Environmental Services: Effective Use of Economic Tools", February 1, 2007. 12 pp.
• Claassen, R., "Buying Environmental Services: Effective use of economic tools", SWCS Conference on Managing Agricultural Landscapes for Environmental Quality, Kansas City, MO, pp.
• Claassen, R., "Compliance Provisions for Soil and Wetland Conservation", Agricultural Resource and Environmental Indicators, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
• Claassen, R., "Conservation in the 2002 Farm Bill: New Funding, New Directions", Food for Thought Briefing, May 16, 2002.
• Claassen, R., "Conservation in the 2002 Farm Bill: New Funding, New Directions", pp.
• Claassen, R., "Conservation Policy Analysis with ARMS: Challenges and Opportunities", NAS Panel for Review of USDA's ARMS Survey, September 28, 2006. pp.
• Claassen, R., "Conservation Practice Adoption: The Role of Socio-Economic Factors", Symposium presentation at the SWCS Annual Conference, Dearborn, MI, July 13, 2009. pp.
• Claassen, R., 2009, "Cost-Effective Conservation Programs: The Role of Economics", Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, March, pp. 53A-54A
• Claassen, R., Breneman, V., Heimlich, R., Morehart, M., "Presentation", Presented to Dep. Sec. Rominger, NRCS Chief Reed, and Under Sec. Lyons, March 15, 2000. 20 pp.
• Claassen, R., Cattaneo, A., Johansson, R., "Cost-Effective Agri-Environmental Payment Programs: U.S. Experience and Theory and Practice", Presented to the Workship on Payments for Environmental Services, Titisee, Germany, June 16, 2005. 40 pp.
• Claassen, R., Conservation Policy Overview, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Marc Ribaudo,
• Claassen, R., Conservation Policy Topic Page, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
• Claassen, R., Duquette, E., "Additionality in Conservation Programs", pp.
• Claassen, R., Duquette, E., "Additionality in U.S. Agricultural Conservation Programs: A Preliminary Analysis of New Data", Selected paper presented at AAEA Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, pp.
• Claassen, R., Duquette, E., "Additionality in U.S. Agri-Environmental Programs for Working Land", presentation to ERS/Farm Foundation conference on Providing Environmental Services from Agriculture, Washington DC, April 18, 2010. pp.
• Claassen, R., Duquette, E., "Additionality in U.S. Agri-Environmental Programs for Working Land: A Preliminary Look At New Data", AAEA Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, pp.
• Claassen, R., Duquette, E., Horowitz, J., "Additionality in Agricultural Conservation Payment Programs", Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, pp.
• Claassen, R., Gadsby, D., Johnston, P., Peters, M., Agricultural Resource and Environmental Indicators, 2000, Agricultural Handbook, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 20 pp.
• Claassen, R., Hansen, L., Johnston, P., Hopkins, J., Breneman, V., Cattaneo, A., Hellerstein, D., Gadsby, D., Weinberg, M., Morehart, M., Feather, P., Mark E. Smith, 2001, Agri-Environmental Policy at the Crossroads: Guideposts on a Changing Landscape, Agricultural Economic Report, AER-794, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, January, 66 pp.
• Claassen, R., Hansen, L., Peters, M., Morehart, M., "Agri-Environmental Payments to Farmers: Rewarding Environmental Performance", Agriculture Outlook, Economic Research Service, pp. 26-31
• Claassen, R., Heimlich, R., Peters, M., "A Green Payments Analysis", Paper presented at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting, Pensacola, FL, February 4, 2002. 12 pp.
• Claassen, R., Johansson, R., "Cost-Effective Agri-Environmental Payment Programs: Theory and Practice", presented to participants in the 2005 Conservation Leadership Dialogue, Racine, WI, pp.
• Claassen, R., Johansson, R., Cattaneo, A., U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Claassen, R., L. Knight, J. Atwood, J. Featherston, L. Moore, G. O'Neill, and F. Spinelli, Conservation Security Program: Interim Final Rule Benefit-Cost Assessment, May/2004, 109 pp.
• Claassen, R., Ribaudo, M., "Conservation Policy Overview", Agricultural Resource and Environmental Indicators, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
• Claassen, Roger, John Horowitz, Eric Duquette, and Kohei Ueda, Additionality in U.S. Agricultural Conservation and Regulatory Offset Programs, Economic Research Report, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Cooper, J., 2003, "A Joint Framework for Analysis of Agri-environmental Payment Programs", American Journal of Economics, Vol. 85, Issue 4, pp. 976-987
• Cooper, J., A Joint Framework for Analysis of Agri-environmental Payment Programs -- book chapter,
• Cooper, J., Giraud, K., J. Loomis, 2001, "A Comparison of Willingness to Pay Estimation Techniques from Referendum Questions: Application to Endangered Fish", Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol 20. 2001, pp. 331-346
• Cyntha Nickerson, Roger Claassen, Ron Durst, LeRoy Hansen, and Daniel Hellerstein, 2009, "Cash or Credit? Tax Credits and Conservation Outcomes", Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 22A-26A
• Daniel Hellerstein, "Correcting for Non-response Bias in Discrete Choice Models: A Two-Stage Mixed Logit Model", presentation to thet March 2007 W1133 meetings, Richmond VA, pp.
• Daniel Hellerstein, Correcting for Non-response Bias in Discrete Choice Models: A Two-Stage Mixed Logit Model, October/2007, pp.
• Daniel M Hellerstein, "Correcting for Non-response Bias in Discrete Choice Models: A Two-Stage Mixed Logit Model", RFF and academic researchers, Washington DC, pp.
• Daniel M. Hellerstein, 2006, AREI Chapter 5.2: USDA Land Retirement Programs, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, http://ers.usda.gov/publications/arei/eib16/Chapter5/5.2/, September.
• Darwin, R., Ingram, K., Breneman, V., A Global Land and Water Resources Database for Economic Models, Miscellaneous Publication, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• DePiper, Geret, Nathaniel Higgins, Doug Lipton, and Andrew Stocking, "Auction design, incentives, and buying back Maryland and Virginia crab licenses", Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming, pp.
• Duquette, E., Claassen, R., "Additionality of Conservation Payments", pp.
• Duquette, E., Higgins, N., Horowitz, John, ""Time Preference and Technology Adoption: A Single-Choice Experiment with U.S. Farmers"", pp.
• Erickson, K., "Book Review: Financing Agriculture into the 21st Century, Jerome Stam and Marvin Duncan, eds.", pp.
• Fernando Carriazo, and Edward Coulson, 2010, "A note on testing for spatial error components", Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 331-335
• Gadsby, D., Conservation on Private Grazing Lands, Miscellaneous Publication, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Ghosh, G., Ribaudo, M., Shortle, J., "Baseline requirements can hinder trades in water quality trading programs: Evidence from the Conestoga watershed", Journal of Environmental Management, pp.
• Gibbs, R., "ARMS Overview", pp.
• Giovanni Signorello, Joseph C. Cooper, Giuseppe Cucuzza, and Maria De Salvo, "A One and One Half Bound Contingent Valuation Survey to Estimate the Benefits of Restoring a Degraded Coastal Wetland Ecosyst", Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Paulo Nunes (Eds.), Edward Elgar.
• Glenn D. Schaible, D. Lambert, S. Stefanova, and D. Banker, 2006, CEAP-ARMS (for Corn) 2005: A Data Product, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, December.
• Glenn D. Schaible, Dayton Lambert, C. S. Kim, Robert Johansson, Utpal Vasavada, "CEAP-ARMS: Evidence on Conservation Practice Adoption from an Integrated National Survey", SWCS Workshop on "Managing Agricultural Landscapes for Environmental Quality", Kansas City, MO, Oct. 11-13, 2006, October 12, 2006. pp.
• Gollehon, N., "An Overview of the ERS Animal Waste Management Program", Annual Meeting of the National Animal Waste Management Center, Kansas City, Mo, 10 pp.
• Gollehon, N., Agapoff, J., Aillery, M., "An Examination of Manure Transport Patterns in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed to Meet Nutrient Standards for Land Application", Annual meeting of the Northeast Agricultural Economics Assn., Portsmouth, NH, June 8, 2003. pp.
• Gollehon, N., Aillery, M., "Cost of Manure Land Application with Ammonia-N Controls in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed", Mid Atlantic Agricultural Ammonia Forum, Gettysburg PA, December 15, 2004. pp.
• Gollehon, N., Aillery, M., Breneman, V., Agapoff, J., Costs and Distribution of Manure Land Application: Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Workshop/Seminar, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
• Gollehon, N., Aillery, M., "Costs of Air-Quality Control Technologies on Animal Farms: A Regional View", Presentation for NAREA Annual Meeting, Annapolis, MD, pp.
• Gollehon, N., Aillery, M., "Costs of Air-Quality Control Technologies on Animal Farms: A Regional View", Selected paper at the NAREA Annual Meeting, Annapolis, Maryland, June 13, 2005. 25 pp.
• Gollehon, N., Aillery, M., Christensen, L., "Costs of Land Applying Manure with Increased Off-Farm Processing Capacity: A Regional Assessment", AAEA Annual Meeting, Denver. Co, August 3, 2004. 25 pp.
• Gollehon, N., Aillery, M., Christensen, L., Breneman, V., "Cost and Distribution of Manure Land Application: Chesapeake Bay Watershed", Presentation to the Nutrient Subcommittee, Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis MD, December 3, 2003. pp.
• Gollehon, N., Caswell, M., Ribaudo, M., Robert Kellogg - NRCS; Charles Lander - NRCS, "Integrated Decision-Making for Watershed Management Symposium: Processes and Tools", Chevy Chase, MD, January 9, 2001.
• Gollehon, N., Caswell, M., Ribaudo, M., Robert Kellogg (NRCS), Charles Lander (NRCS), David Letson (University of Miami), Confined Animal Production and Manure Nutrients, Agricultural Information Bulletin, AIB-771, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 35 pp.
• Hand, M., "Characterizing Participation in Conservation Programs", Washington, DC, October 15, 2007. pp.
• Hand, M., Nickerson, C., "Beginning, Limited Resource, and Socially Disadvantaged Farmers in Conservation Programs: What Do We Know About Environmental and Economic Outcomes?", poster presented at NRCS Joint Professional Training Conference, Kansas City, MO, March 15, 2010.
• Hand, M., Nickerson, C., "Conservation Access Provisions May Have Little Impact", Amber Waves, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Hansen, L., "Air, Water, Wildlife, and Productivity Benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program", Presentation for the ERS Food for Thought, November 4, 2004. pp.
• Hansen, L., "Briefing for Robert Bonnie",
• Hansen, L., "Costs of reducing nitrogen loading through wetland restoration and establishment of vegetative filter strips", paper to be presented at the annual Soil and Water Conservation Society meeting, Washington, DC, July 18, 2011. pp.
• Hansen, L., "Costs of reducing nitrogen loadings through wetland restoration", presentation and at the meeting of the SWCS, Louisville, Kentucky, pp.
• Hansen, L., Charles R. Loesch and Ron Reynolds, "Coupling economic with ecosystem models to better target conservation incentives", to be presented at the W2133 meeting: Environmental Resource Economics and Policy, Tucson, AZ, February 25, 2010. pp.
• Hansen, L., Hellerstein, D., 2009, Conservation Policy: Land Retirement Programs, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/ConservationPolicy/retirement.htm, January.
• Hansen, L., J. Delgado, W. Crumpton, M. Ribaudo, "An evaluation of the cost effectiveness of on- and off-field nitrogen conservation practices", Ecological Economics, pp.
• Hansen, LeRoy and Daniel Hellerstein, 2006, Better Targeting, Better Outcomes, Economic Brief, EB-2, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, March, 6 pp.
• Hansen, LeRoy, "A farmers testimony on healthy soils production methods and output: Some economic implications", pp.
• Hansen, LeRoy, Jorge Delgado, Marc Ribaudo, and William Crumpton, "An evaluation of the cost effectiveness of on- and off-field nitrogen conservation practices", Environmental Economics, pp.
• Hellerstein, D., "Assessing the Ecosystem Services Impact of Agricultural Conservation Policies: Two Case Studies", economists and other researchers, Annapolos, Maryland, pp.
• Hellerstein, D., "Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Conservation Reserve Program", U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Hellerstein, D., Biological Resources and Agriculture, Agricultural Handbook, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 17 pp.
• Hellerstein, D., Conservation Policy and Agiculture in the US: Valuing the Impacts of the CRP, Conference Organized by ERS, Paris, France, December 10, 2004.
• Hellerstein, D., Conservation Policy and Agiculture in the US: Valuing the Impacts of the CRP, Workshop/Seminar, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Paris, France, December 4, 2004.
• Hellerstein, D., Higgins, N., Fooks, Jacob, Messer, Kent, Duke, Joshua, Lynch, Loretta, "Agglomeration Bonuses in Environmental Markets", AAEA, Pittsburgh, PA, pp.
• Hellerstein, D., James Barry, intern (U Conn student), An Overview of Farm Based Recreation: Results from the NSRE, Agricultural Information Bulletin, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Hellerstein, D., Ribaudo, M., Conservation Reserve Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Marc Ribaudo,
• Hellerstein, D., Shoemaker, R., Hand, M., Schaible, G., Claassen, R., Breneman, V., Malcolm, S., Weinberg, M., Richard Iovanna, Bruce McCarl, Robert Kellog, Jay Atwood, Jeff Goebel, Data Needs for Agri-Environmental Policy Modeling & Analysis, Conference Organized by ERS, Washington DC, October 15, 2008.
• Higgins, N., Roberts, M., Hellerstein, D., "Cost-Saving Procurement Auctions for Environmental Services", Poster for AAEA, Orlando Florida,
• Hellerstein, Daniel M. and Sean Silvia, "Conservation program enrollment mechanisms using auctions: what can laboratory experiments tell us about the use of imprecis", presentation at the AERE Summer Meetings, Seattle, Washingotn, pp.
• Higgins, N., Hellerstein, D., Fooks, Jacob; Duke, Joshua; Lynch, Loretta; Messer, Kent, "Conserving Spatial Benefits in Environmental Markets", pp.
• Higgins, N., Lawrence M. Ausubel, Peter Cramton, Emel Filiz-Ozbay, Erkut Ozbay, and Andrew Stocking, "Common-Value Auctions with Liquidity Needs: An Experimental Test of a Troubled Assets Reverse Auction", Handbook of Market Design, Nir Vulkan, Al Roth, Muriel Niederle, and Zvika Neeman (Eds.),
• Hopkins, J., Johansson, R., 2004, "Beyond Environmental Compliance: Stewardship as Good Business", Amber Waves, Vol. 2, Issue 2, U.S. Department of Agriculture, April, pp.
• Hopkins, J., Johansson, R., Dennis Aigner, 2003, "Beyond Compliance: Sustainable Business Practices and the Bottom Line", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 85, Number 5, pp. 1126-1139
• Jacob Fooks, Nathaniel Higgins, Kent D. Messer, Joshua M. Duke, Dan Hellerstein, Lori Lynch, "Conserving Spatially Explicit Benefits in Ecosystem Service Markets:h", AJAE, in press, pp.
• Jay Atwood, Roger Claassen, Leah Moore Duzy, James Featherston, Doug Lawrence, Lynn Knight, Gary O'Neill, Felix Spinelli, "Conservation Security Program Economic Analysis", Presented as part of an organized symponsium at the AAEA Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, pp.
• Johansson, R., Claassen, R., Kaplan, J., Agri-Environmental Efficiency: Potentials and Pitfalls for EQIP in the 2002 Farm Bill, Conference Organized by ERS, Monterey, CA, June 24, 2002.
• Johansson, R., Claassen, R., Mark Peters, USDA-AMS, "Complementarities and Substitutability of Environmental Attributes under Conservation Policy", Paper presented at Forestry and Agri. GHG Modeling Forum, Shepherdstown, WV, October 8, 2002. pp.
• Johansson, R., J. Kaplan, "A Carrot and Stick Approach to Environmental Improvement:Marrying Agri-Environmental Payments and Water Quality Regulations", Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, pp.
• Johansson, R., Kaplan, J., "A Carrot and Stick Approach to Environmental Improvement: Marrying Conservation Payments and Water Quality Regulations", Presented at the NAREA workshop, Portsmouth, NH, June 11, 2003. pp.
• Johansson, R., Moledina, A, 2005, "Choosing an appropriate policy instrument when firms are strategic.", Water International, pp.
• John K. Horowitz, Lori Lynch, and Andrew Stocking, 2009, "Competition-Based Environmental Policy: An Analysis of Farmland Preservation in Maryland", Land Economics, Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 555-575
• Kaplan, J., "Conservation Compliance on Highly Erodible Land: An Empirical Auditing Game", pp.
• Kaplan, J., Giannakas, K., "(NON)COMPLIANCE WITH AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION PROGRAMS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE", pp.
• Kaplan, J., Richard E. Howitt and Y. Hossein Farzin, 2003, "An Information-Theoretical Analysis of Budget-Constrained Nonpoint Source Pollution Control", Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol 46, Number 1, pp. 106-130
• Keith Wiebe and Noel Gollehon (editors), Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators 2005, Economic Information Bulletin, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Lambert, D., "Conservation Practoces and Programs: Who Participates?", NACD Legislative Conference, Washington, DC, pp.
• Lambert, D., "Conservation Programs in the US: Who Participates?", Second year ag econ students, University of Calgary, pp.
• Lambert, D., Sullivan, P., Claassen, R., Foreman, L., "Conservation Compatible Practices and Programs: Who Participates?", Briefing for NRCS Administrator and senior staff, Washington, DC, November 8, 2005.
• Lambert, D., Sullivan, P., Claassen, R., Foreman, L., "Conservation Compatible Practices and Programs: Who Participates?", Briefing for the Interagency Small Farm Coordinators, Washington, DC, April 19, 2006.
• Lambert, D., Sullivan, P., Claassen, R., Foreman, L., 2006, Conservation-Compatible Practices and Programs: Who Participates?, Economic Research Report, ERR-14, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, February, 43 pp.
• Laura McCann and Roger Claassen, "Are Farmer Transaction Costs a Barrier to Conservation Program Participation?", Selected paper presented at the AAEA Annual Conference, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, MN, pp.
• LeRoy Hansen, 2007, "Conservation Reserve Program: Environmental Benefits Update", Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 267-280
• LeRoy Hansen, 2009, "The Viability of Creating Wetlands for the Sale of Carbon Offsets", Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 350-365
• Livingston, M., A cross-sectional assessment of the use of nitrogen conserving practices and potential for further expansion, pp.
• Loesch Chuck, Ron Reynolds, and LeRoy Hansen, "An economic assessment of re-directing conservation efforts", National Wildlife Refuge System Visions Conference, Madison Wisconson, July 10, 2011.
• Loesch, C., R. Reynoldsm and L. Hansen, "An Economic Assessment of Re-directing Waterfowl Conservation Relative to Predictions of Climate Change in the U.S. Prairie P", Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, pp.
• Lubowski, R., "Agri-Environmental Policy Analysis for Ocean and Coastal Areas: Data and Resources", Presentation to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Ocean and Coastal Economic Data Workshop, Silver Spring, MD, pp.
• Marc Ribaudo, and Cynthia Nickerson, 2009, "Agriculture and Water Quality Trading: Exploring the Possibilities", Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 1-7
• Lubowski, R., Claassen, R., Roberts, M., "Crop Insurance and Land Use: The Federal Crop Insurance and Reform Act (FCIRA) of 1994", Presentation at Southern Economics Association Meeting, Washington, DC, November 19, 2005. pp.
• Lubowski, R., Claassen, R., Roberts, M., "Crop Insurance and Land-Use Change: Extent, Location, and Characteristics of Land Cropped Due to Insurance Subsidies", Paper presented at SCC-76 Economics and Management of Risk in Agriculture and Natural Resources, Myrtle Beach, SC, March 16, 2006. pp.
• Lubowski, R., Claassen, R., Roberts, M., 2006, "Agricultural Policy Affects Land Use and the Environment", Amber Waves, Volume 4, Issue 4, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, September, pp. 28-33
• Marcel Aillery, Dwight Gadsby, 2006, "Conservation on Private Grazing Lands -- AREI Chapter 5.5", Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, July.
• Marshall, E., Baselines in Environmental Programs and Markets, Economic Brief, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Marshall, E., Weinberg, M., "Baselines--Key to the Costs and Benefits of Environmental Markets", U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Michael Hand, 2010, "A Voluntary Approach to Agricultural Conservation in the United States", SIGMA: The Bulletin of European Statistics, Vol. 2010, No. 1, pp. 31-32
• Nathaniel Higgins, Beat Hintermann, and Molly Brown, "A model of west african millet prices in rural markets", Food Policy; accepted for publication, pp.
• Nickerson, C., Aillery, M., Conservation Policy: Farmland and Grazing Land Protection Programs, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Marc Ribaudo,
• Nickerson, C., Claassen, R., Durst, R., Hansen, L., Hellerstein, D., "Cash or Credit? Conservation Outcomes Under Alternative Funding Mechanisms", presentation at SWCS annual meeting, Tucson, AZ, pp.
• Nickerson, C., Ribaudo, M., "Achieving National Priorities in Decentralized Conservation Programs", poster presented at AAEA annual meeting, Orlando, FL,
• Nickerson, Cynthia, 2006, "Affecting Environmental Change in Multiple Objective Programs", Amber Waves, U.S. Department of Agriculture, April, pp.
• Paul D. Gottlieb,Brian J. Schilling, Kevin Sullivan, J. Dixon Esseks, Lori Lynch,Joshua M. Duke, "Are preserved farms actively engaged in agriculture and conservation", Land Use Policy, 45 (2015), pp. 103-116
• Ribaudo, M, McCann, L., "Accounting for transaction costs in point/nonpoint water quality trading programs in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed", poster presented at AAEA Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA,
• Ribaudo, M., "Air Resources Activites at ERS", brieifng presented to USDA Agricultural Air Quality Task Force, Des Moines, IA, September 16, 2009.
• Ribaudo, M., "Air Resources Activities at ERS",
• Ribaudo, M., Abdalla, C., Stephenson, K., Wainger, L., 2014, Critical Issues in Implementing Nutrient Trading Programs in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, CRC# 14-002, Chesapeake Bay Program Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, Annapolis, MD, February, 48 pp.
• Ribaudo, M., Agapoff, J., "Cost to swine operations from meeting federal manure application standards: the importance of willingness-to-accept manure", paper presented at SERA-IEG 30 meeting, Lexington, KY, May 15, 2003. pp.
• Ribaudo, M., Agapoff, J., Cattaneo, A., "Can EQIP Be Effective in Helping Farmers Meet Manure Management Goals?", selected paper presented at AAEA Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 27, 2003. pp.
• Ribaudo, M., Agapoff, J., Gollehon, N., "Consequences of Federal Manure Management Proposals: Cost to Swine Operations from Land Applying Manure", pp.
• Ribaudo, M., Aillery, M., Claassen, R., Hellerstein, D., Johansson, R., Nickerson, C., Conservation Policy Briefing Room, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Marc Ribaudo,
• Ribaudo, M., "Air Resources Activities at ERS", briefing for USDA Agricultural Air Quality Task Force, Washington, DC, November 28, 2006.
• Ribaudo, M., Air Quality, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Marc Ribaudo,
• Ribaudo, M., "Air Resources Activities at ERS", presentation to USDA Agricultural Air Quality Task Force, Washington, DC,
• Ribaudo, M., "Air Resources Activities at ERS", presentation to USDA Agricultural Air Quality Task Force, Washington, DC, June 8, 2011. pp.
• Ribaudo, M., "Creating Markets for Environmental Services", CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia, pp.
• Ribaudo, M., "Creating Markets for Environmental Services: What Have We Learned?", presentation at U.S. Society for Ecological Economics conference, Washington, DC, June 3, 2009. pp.
• Ribaudo, M., 2004, "Are you friends with your neighbors?", Hoard's Dairyman, Vol. 149, No. 5, pp. 175
• Ribaudo, M., 2008, "Creating Markets for Environmental Stewardship: Potential Benefits and Problems", Amber Waves, Vo9l. 6, Issue 4, U.S. Department of Agriculture, September, pp. 24-31
• Ribaudo, M., 2009, "Agriculture and Water Quality Trading: Exploring the Possibilities", Amber Waves, Vol. 1, Issue 7, U.S. Department of Agriculture, March, pp. 6
• Ribaudo, M., Cattaneo, A., Agapoff, J., "Cost of Meeting Manure Nutrient Application Standards in Hog Production: the Role of EQIP and Fertilizer Offsets", Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 26, Issue 4, pp. 430-444
• Ribaudo, M., Ghosh, G., Shortle, J., "Can Baseline Requirements Hinder Trades in Water Quality Trading Programs?", selected paper to AAEA Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, July 26, 2009. pp.
• Ribaudo, M., Gollehon, N., "Animal Agriculture and the Environment", Agricultural Resources and Enviornmental Indicators, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Marc Ribaudo,
• Ribaudo, M., Gollehon, N., Agapoff, J., Aillery, M., "American Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting", Long Beach, CA, July 30, 2002. pp.
• Ribaudo, M., Savage, J., Aillery, M., An Economic Assessment of Policy Options to Meet the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for Agriculture, Economic Research Report, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Ribaudo, M., Weinberg, M., 2005, "Improving Air and Water Quality can be two sides of the same coin", Amber Waves, Vol. 3, Issue 4, U.S. Department of Agriculture, September, pp. 34-41
• Ribaudo, Marc; Nickerson, Cynthia, "Agriculture and Water Quality Trading: Exploring the Possibilities", poster presented at AAEA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, July 28, 2007.
• Ribaudo, Savage, "Controlling Non-additional Credits from Nutrient Management in Water Quality Trading Programs Through Eligibility Baseline St", Ecological Economics, Vol. 105, pp. 233-239
• Roger Claassen and Eric Duquette, "Additionality in Agricultural Conservation Payment Programs", August 22, 2013.
• Roger Claassen and Eric Duquette, "Additionality in Agricultuural Conservation Programs", U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Roger Claassen and Marc Ribaudo, 2016, "Cost-Effective Conservation Programs for Sustaining Environmental Quality", Choices, Vol. 31, Issue 3, pp. 1-11
• Roger Claassen, 2007, "Can Income Support Encourage Better Nutrient Management?", Amber Waves, Vol. 5, Issue 3, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, June, pp. 6
• Roger Claassen, Andrea Cattaneo, and Robert Johansson, "Cost-Effective Design of Agri-Environmental Payment Programs: U.S. Experience in Theory and Practice", paper presented at the ZEF-CIFOR workshop on payments for environmental services, Titisee, Germany, pp.
• Roger Claassen, Andrea Cattaneo, and Robert Johansson, 2008, "Cost-effective design of agri-environmental payment programs: U.S. experience in theory and practice.", Ecological Economics, Vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 737-752
• Roger Claassen, John Horowitz, Eric Duquette, Kohei Ueda, Additionality in U.S. Agricultural Conservation and Regulatory Offset Programs, Economic Research Report, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Roger Claassen, Joseph Cooper, Cristina Salvioni, and Marcella Veronesi, "Agri-environmental policies: A comparison of U.S. and E.U. experiences", Oxford Handbook of Land Economics, Jun Jie Wu and Josh Duke (Eds.), Oxford Universituy Press.
• Sarah A. Tulman, "Altruism, Noise, and the Paradox of Voter Turnout: An Experimental Study", Journal of Applied Mathematics (special issue "Experimental Game Theory and its Application in Sociology and Political Science"), pp.
• Savage, J., Claassen, R., Breneman, V., Williams, R., Loesch, Chuck, "Additionality in Conservation Easements Programs: Grassland Easements in the Prairie Pothole Region", poster presented at AAEA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN,
• Savage, J., Ribaudo, M., "Controlling Non-additional Credits from Nutrient Management in Water Quality Trading Programs Through Eligibility Baseline Stringency", paper presented at AAEA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, pp.
• Savage, J., Ribaudo, M., "Controlling Non-additional Credits from Nutrient Management in Water Quality Trading Programs Through Eligibility Baseline Stringency", selected paper presentation at AAEA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, pp.
• Schaible, G., Lambert, D., "Briefing on CEAP-ARMS Data and Analysis (for Dennis Aigner, UC-Santa Barbara)", Part of an ERS Briefing on RRED's Agri-Environmental Program, ERS Conf. Room, Washington, DC, April 5, 2006.
• Schaible, G., Lambert, D., 2005, Ceap-Arms Data Product (2004 for Wheat), Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, November.
• Schaible, Glenn D. and Dayton Lambert, "Briefing: On 2004 CEAP-ARMS (for Wheat)", Briefing Material prepared for ERS, NASS, NRCS, and OMB, Washington, DC,
• Shawn Bucholtz, Marcel Aillery, and Noel Gollehon, "Conservation Practice Adoption as a Drought-Mitigation Strategy: A Preliminary Investigation of EQIP Contract Data", Paper presented at WAEA Annual Meeting, Anchorage, AK, June 28, 2006. pp.
• Shoemaker, R., "A new direction for Conservation on working lands", U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Shumway, c., J. Delgado, T. Bunch, L. Hansen, and M. Ribaudo, "Best Nitrogen Management Practices Can Reduce the Potential Flux of Nitrogen Out of the Arkansas Delta", Soil Science, pp.
• Shumway, Cal, Jorge Delgado, Theodis Bunch, LeRoy Hansen, and Marc Ribaudo, "Assessment of nitrogen management and cropping systems in the Ardansas Delta irrigaiton System", ASA-SSSA, Long Beach California,
• Smith, D., "An ERS Perspective on Water Quality Trading: Lessons Learned", presentation at the National Workshop on Water Quaility Markets, Lincoln, Nebraska, September 15, 2015. pp.
• Theodore Bunch, Jorge Delgado, Cal Shumway, LeRoy Hansen, and Marc Ribaudo, "A GIS Assessment to Identify and Reduce Nitrate Loads that Contribute to the", poster presented at the AS/CSSA/SSSA annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, October 16, 2011.
• Wallander, S., "Data and Research Needs for Soil Health Policy", presentation at Economics of Soil Health Workshop, Washington, DC, September 21, 2015. pp.
• Towe, Charles, Cynthia Nickerson and Nancy Bockstael, "An Empirical Examination of Real Options and the Timing of Land Conversions", selected paper presented at AAEA Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, July 24, 2005. pp.
• Vasavada, U., "Agri-Environmental Payments: Issues and Analysis",
• Wade, T., Claassen, R., Wallander, S., Conservation Practice Adoption in Major Crops: Tillage, Nutrient Management, and Cover Crops, Economic Information Bulletin, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pp.
• Wallander, S., Claassen, R., Alexandra Hill, "Conservation Program Contract Modifications: Evidence from USDA's Environmental Quality Incentives Program", Poster presented at AAEA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, pp.
• Weinberg, M., "Agri-Environmental Indicators: The OECD Experience", USDA Council on Sustainable Development, Washington, DC, September 14, 2011. pp.
• Weinberg, M., "Agri-environmental policies... and how they fit with markets for ecosystem services", paper presented to IATRC, St Petersburg, Florida, December 3, 2006. pp.
• Weinberg, M., "Agri-Environmental Programs in the United States: Portfolios and Design Options", Open to the public; hill staff, OECD Breakfast Series, Washington DC, January 26, 2006. pp.
• Weinberg, M., Claassen, R., 2005, "A Multitude of Decisions Influence Conservation Program Performance", Amber Waves, Vol. 3, Issue 5, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, November, pp. 8
• Weinberg, M., Claassen, R., 2006, Rewarding Farm Practices Versus Environmental Performance, Economic Brief, EB-5, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, March, 6 pp.
• Wiebe, K., 2006, "Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators (Amber Waves Finding, Sep 2006)", Amber Waves, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, September, pp.