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  title info:
    title: Environmental effects of agricultural land-use change
    sub title: the role of economics and policy
  name:
    name part: Lubowski, Ruben N. (Ruben Noah)
  name:
    name part: United States
    name part: Department of Agriculture.
    name part: Economic Research Service.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 75 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm.
  abstract: This report examines evidence on the relationship between agricultural land-use changes, soil productivity, and indicators of environmental sensitivity. If cropland that shifts in and out of production is less productive and more environmentally sensitive than other cropland, policy-induced changes in land use could have production effects that are smaller -- and environmental impacts that are greater -- than anticipated. To illustrate this possibility, this report examines environmental outcomes stemming from land use conversion caused by two agricultural programs that others have identified as potentially having important influences on land use and environmental quality: Federal crop insurance subsidies and the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), the Nation's largest cropland retirement program. The report finds that lands moving between cultivated cropland and less intensive agricultural uses are, on average, less productive and more vulnerable to erosion than other cultivated lands, both nationally and locally. These lands are also associated with greater potential nutrient runoff and leaching compared with cultivated cropland nationally. Crop insurance subsidies and CRP have estimated effects on erosion and other environmental factors that are disproportionate to the acreage and production effects, but specific environmental impacts vary with the features of each program.
  note: Ruben N. Lubowski [and others].
  note: Cover title.
  note: "August 2006"--P. [i].
  note: Mode of access: Internet from ERS web site. Address as of 6/20/07: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err25/ (abstract), http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err25/err25.pdf (PDF version); current access available via PURL.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-60).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Land use, Rural
    topic: Environmental aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture and state
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural subsidies
    topic: Environmental aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural pollution
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Soil erosion
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Soils
    topic: Quality
    geographic: United States
  classification: A 93.73:25
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Environmental effects of agricultural land-use change : the role of economics and policy
    physical description:
      extent: vi, 75 p.
    identifier: (OCoLC)76810452
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Economic research report (United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service) ; no. 25
  identifier: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err25/
  identifier: https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS76134
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err25/
  related item:
    location:
      url: https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS76134
  record info:
    record content source: ORE
    record creation date: 061025
    record change date: 20230331150236.0
    record identifier: in00002207290