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The NCLAN Economic Assessment: Approach, Findings and Implications

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Assessment of Crop Loss From Air Pollutants

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The role of food and fiber in human welfare make agriculture an important sector in most economies. It is thus not surprising that concerns about pollution or other adverse environmental changes often focus on agricultural effects. In the United States, potential adverse effects of air pollutants such as ozone (O3) on agriculture and other vegetation are one motivation for regulating such pollutants. In turn, this regulatory interest leads plant scientists, economists, and policymakers to expend considerable effort on measuring and interpreting the economic and other consequences of pollution on agriculture. Given the recent interest regarding the effects of air pollutants on vegetation and the regulatory importance of economic information on such effects, it is instructive to examine the current state of knowledge about the economic effects of O3 on agriculture.

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  1. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

    Richard M. Adams & J. David Glyer

  2. Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA

    Bruce A. McCarl

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  1. USDA-Agricultural Research Service, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

    Walter W. Heck

  2. University of California, Riverside, California, USA

    O. Clifton Taylor

  3. US Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

    David T. Tingey

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Adams, R.M., Glyer, J.D., McCarl, B.A. (1988). The NCLAN Economic Assessment: Approach, Findings and Implications. In: Heck, W.W., Taylor, O.C., Tingey, D.T. (eds) Assessment of Crop Loss From Air Pollutants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1367-7_21

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