Disaster Planning in the Dairy Industry: Conceptual Issues and a Spatial Modelling Approach

Natural disasters in the u.S. demonstrate the lack of and need for integrated disaster plans for the u.S. dairy industry. It is demonstrated how a spatial model of the Northeast dairy industry can be used to assess and analyze potential impacts of local and regional disasters on market levels in the industry. A hypothetical radioactive release from a nuclear power plant reactor in the Northeast provides an example.

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Year of publication:	1992-02
Authors:	Keniston, Maura ; Pratt, James E. ; Stephenson, Mark W. ; Novakovic, Andrew M.
Institutions:	Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
Subject:	Livestock Production/Industries \| Risk and Uncertainty

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Staff Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Department of Applied Economics and Management>Staff Papers Number 121540
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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