The relative cost-efficiency of arable nitrogen management in Sweden
Brady, Mark LU
(2003)
In Ecological Economics
47(1).
p.53-70
- Abstract
Arable nitrogen emissions contribute to serious water-quality problems around the globe. To reduce pollution of the Baltic Sea, Sweden has implemented a comprehensive scheme of nitrogen abatement instruments; a uniform nitrogen fertilizer tax, green payments (subsidies), and land-use regulations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative cost-efficiency of the scheme and to analyze the implications of agricultural policy for the least-cost solution. Due to the expanse and heterogeneity of the study area, a spatially distributed nonlinear mathematical programming model, which linked changes in agricultural production practices on crop farms in Southern Sweden to coastal nitrogen load, was developed. Spatial variation in... (More)
Arable nitrogen emissions contribute to serious water-quality problems around the globe. To reduce pollution of the Baltic Sea, Sweden has implemented a comprehensive scheme of nitrogen abatement instruments; a uniform nitrogen fertilizer tax, green payments (subsidies), and land-use regulations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative cost-efficiency of the scheme and to analyze the implications of agricultural policy for the least-cost solution. Due to the expanse and heterogeneity of the study area, a spatially distributed nonlinear mathematical programming model, which linked changes in agricultural production practices on crop farms in Southern Sweden to coastal nitrogen load, was developed. Spatial variation in physical parameters, production costs, and the fate and transport of nitrogen were accounted for. Interactions between agricultural and nitrogen policy were shown to occur. Least-cost abatement measures changed radically with and without agricultural policy. Nitrogen policy can be construed as simply correcting for pollution induced by agricultural policy.
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- author
- Brady, Mark
LU
- publishing date
- 2003-11
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Baltic sea, CAP, Cost-effectiveness, Environmental and agricultural policy, Nitrogen, Positive mathematical programming, Water pollution
- in
- Ecological Economics
- volume
- 47
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:0344584527
- ISSN
- 0921-8009
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2002.11.001
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Funding Information: I am grateful to Ing-Marie Gren, Carl-Johan Lagerkvist, and an anonymous referee for providing valuable comments on the manuscript; Markus Hoffmann while at the Department of Soil Sciences, SLU, for help with nitrogen leaching data; and Rob Hart and Katarina Elofsson for comments on a related paper. This study has been financed as part of the project Environmental Impacts of Agriculture (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and MISTRA—the Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research).
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