IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea16/235197.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Reducing the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico: Assessing the Costs to Agriculture

Author

Listed:
  • Ribaudo, Marc
  • Marshall, Elizabeth
  • Aillery, Marcel
  • Malcolm, Scott

Abstract

Reducing the size of the hypoxic zone (Dead Zone) in the northern Gulf of Mexico will require a significant reduction in nutrient loads from the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB). This research uses an agriculture sector model and data on conservation system effectiveness and costs to estimate costs to the agriculture sector of meeting nutrient load goals at the outlet to the Gulf and at outlets of sub-basins in the watershed. The analysis also estimates resulting changes in crop prices and the resulting impacts on agricultural production and nutrient and sediment loss outside the MARB.

Suggested Citation

  • Ribaudo, Marc & Marshall, Elizabeth & Aillery, Marcel & Malcolm, Scott, 2016. "Reducing the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico: Assessing the Costs to Agriculture," 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts 235197, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea16:235197
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.235197
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/235197/files/Seclectedpaper_2016c.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.235197?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Spencer, Daniel S. & Barnes, James N. & Coatney, Kalyn T. & Parman, Bryon J. & Coble, Keith H., 2017. "Property Rights And The Economics Of Non-Point Source Water Regulations In Agriculture: A New Biophysical-Economic Methodological Approach," 2017 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2017, Mobile, Alabama 252835, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Environmental Economics and Policy;

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:aaea16:235197. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.