Campus Units
Economics, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2000
Journal or Book Title
Choices
Volume
15
Issue
2
First Page or Article ID Number
33
Last Page
38
Abstract
Payments to landowners are a major vehicle to assure resource conservation and environmental protection. Examples of payment programs are listed in the sidebar, page. 34. Some of these programs (1, 2 and 3) compensate resource owners for changing resource uses while others (4, 5 and 6) involve the outright purchase of a resource. For example, the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has compensated landowners to retire 37 million acres of highly erodible cropland at a current annual cost of approximately $1.9 billion, and the Nature Conservancy has protected more than 11 million acres of environmentally valuable land in the United States through purchase of donation.
Copyright Owner
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Copyright Date
2000
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Wu, JunJie; Adams, Richard M.; Zilberman, David; and Babcock, Bruce A., "Targeting Resource Conservation Expenditiures" (2000). Economics Publications. 537.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/econ_las_pubs/537
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Comments
This is an article from Choices, 2000, 15(2); 33-38. Posted with permission.