Overview
- Provides an overview of valuable empirical methods in agricultural production and water resource management
- Addresses important water policy problems in California and elsewhere
- Analyzes policy implications for environmental decision-makers and resource managers
Part of the book series: Natural Resource Management and Policy (NRMP, volume 50)
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About this book
The studies in this book were inspired by the work of Richard E. Howitt, Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of California at Davis, USA, whose career has focused on the applicationof robust empirical methods to address concrete policy problems.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Applied Methods for Agricultural Production and Sector Modeling
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Applied Methods for Water Resource Management
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Application of Information-Theoretic Methods
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Using Quantitative Methods to Inform Decision-Making in Agricultural and Resource Policy
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Duncan MacEwan specializes in water resources, agriculture, mathematical modeling, andstatistical analysis. He enjoys collaborating with interdisciplinary project teams and has extensive experience working with clients to estimate local and regional economic impacts, in addition to applying federal planning principles and water project evaluation guidelines. He is an expert on regional economic modeling and a primary collaborator on the development of the Statewide Agricultural Production Model (SWAP). He has assisted both federal and state agencies in implementing the SWAP model for large-scale project planning and impact analysis, in addition to assisting with benefit-cost analyses, EIR/EIS preparation, and project evaluation. His current project interests include integrated groundwater and economic modeling to evaluate the economic costs and benefits of implementing California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applied Methods for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
Book Subtitle: A Festschrift in Honor of Richard E. Howitt
Editors: Siwa Msangi, Duncan MacEwan
Series Title: Natural Resource Management and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13487-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13486-0Published: 29 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13489-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13487-7Published: 17 May 2019
Series ISSN: 0929-127X
Series E-ISSN: 2511-8560
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 260
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agricultural Economics, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods