ABSTRACT:
Millions of acres of land in the United States are damaged annually by wind erosion. While some researchers have tried to measure the on-site economic costs of wind erosion, there have been virtually no studies of the off-site economic costs. An empirical study of the off-site costs of wind erosion was conducted in New Mexico. Off-site wind erosion costs were estimated to average $466 million per year, dwarfing the $10 million per year on-site costs estimated in another study.
Footnotes
Paul C. Huszar is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 80525. Steven L. Piper, formerly a graduate research assistant in the Department of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, CSU, is currently a resource economist with the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Washington, D.C. 20005. Research reported herein was funded under a cooperative agreement with the Soil Conservation Service. USD A, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Copyright 1986 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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