Many of the Nation's conservation programs seek to achieve multiple environmental objectives. Implementing a multi-objective program efficiently requires program managers to balance different environmental and cost objectives. A number of conservation programs use an index approach to prioritize objectives and rank program applications. This approach keeps program objectives distinct and enables program managers to use weights to determine the relative importance of each objective. This report provides empirical evidence on the environmental and cost tradeoffs of different index weighting schemes in USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). The analyses take into account both land characteristics and how changes to an index affect producer decisions to voluntarily apply. While small changes in index weights do not markedly affect the outcomes of the CRP, larger changes can have a moderate effect. Opportunities for obtaining multiple environmental benefits simultaneously by increasing the index weight on one objective appear limited, and increasing an objective's index weight by at least 20 percent can trigger losses of benefits related to other objectives. Weight changes in smaller incremental program enrollments also result in more tradeoffs than in very large program enrollments.
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出版者
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
页码
vi, 58 pages : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 28 cm.
其它主题
Conservation programs; Environmental policy; Conservation projects (natural resources); United states; Environmental policy; Land development; Land reform and utilization (macroeconomics); Agricultural conservation; Agriculture and state; Conservation of natural resources; Rural; Environmental aspects
语言
英语
格式
print, unmediated, volume
注释
Andrea Cattaneo [and others].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-38).
Also issued online.
类型
Bibliography; Book; Monograph; Interactive Resource; Report; Text; Monograph; Book
团体作者
United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service.
2024-02-27
2026-02-03
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