Natural resources management in agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : methods for assessing economic and environmental impacts / / edited by B.A. Shiferaw, H.A. Freeman, and S.M. Swinton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450740303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, USA, : CABI Pub., c2005
• ISBN: 1-280-90829-7; 9786610908295; 0-85199-068-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (398 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ShiferawBekele (Bekele Ambaye); FreemanH. Ade; SwintonScott M
• Disciplina: 338.1
• Soggetti: Agriculture - Environmental aspects; Agriculture - Economic aspects; Agricultural resources - Management; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Based on papers from a workshop held at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics, Dec. 6-7, 2002.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; Foreword; Contributors; Reviewers; Part I. Introduction; 1 Assessing the Impacts of Natural Resource Management Interventions in Agriculture: Concepts, Issues and Challenges; Part II. Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Biophysical Indicators of NRM Impacts; 2 Valuation Methods and Approaches for Assessing Natural Resource Management Impacts; 3 Measurable Biophysical Indicators for Impact Assessment:Changes in Soil Quality; 4 Measurable Biophysical Indicators for Impact Assessment: Changes in Water Availability and Quality Introduction; 5 Biophysical Indicators of Agro-ecosystem Services and Methods for Monitoring the Impacts of NRM Technologies at Different ScalesPart III. Methodological Advances for a Comprehensive Impact Assessment; 6 Econometric Methods forMeasuring Natural Resource Management ; Impacts: Theoretical Issues and Illustrations from Uganda; 7 Assessing Economic Impacts of Natural Resource Management Using Economic Surplus; 8 Bioeconomic Modelling for Natural Resource Management Impact Assessment; Part IV. NRM Impact Assessment in Practice; 9 Valuing Soil Fertility Change:Selected Methods and CaseStudies; 10 Evaluating the Impacts of Watershed Management Projects: A Practical Econometric Approach11 Assessing Economic andEnvironmental Impacts of NRMTechnologies: An EmpiricalApplication Using the EconomicSurplus Approach; 12 Assessing the Economic andEnvironmental Impacts ofConservation Technologies:A Farm-level BioeconomicModelling Approach; 13 Assessing the Impacts ofNatural Resource ManagementPolicy Interventions with aVillage General EquilibriumModel; Part V. Towards Improved Approaches for NRM Impact Assessment; 14 The Concept of Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) and its Implications for Developing Evaluation Methods15 NRM Impact Assessment in the CGIAR: Meeting theChallenge and Implicationsfor CGIAR Centres; 16 Towards ComprehensiveApproaches in Assessing NRMImpacts: What We Know andWhat We Need to Know; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Discusses the features and methodological difficulties of NRM impact assessment. This book examines the strengths and weaknesses of various impact assessment approaches, including econometric, bio-economic, and more direct methods. It also assesses and identifies data requirements for developing impact indicators.