A multiyear regional risk programming model was used in evaluating the impacts of different environmental policies on cropping systems, input use, nonpoint source pollution, farm income and risk. A direct expected utility maximizing problem (DEMP) objective with a Von Neuman Morgenstern utility...

The purpose of the present study was to determine willingness to pay for improved water quality and sanitation in four rural communities of El Salvador using the Contingent Valuation Method. The research was conducted between November 1998 and January 1999. Different regression estimates reveal...

Agriculture is one of the major sources of water quality impairment, and chemical fertilizer causes most of the surface water contamination. The purpose of this thesis is to design two fertilizer tax systems (Uniform Tax vs Differentiated Tax) embodied in a Computable General Equilibrium model,...