ABSTRACT:
The off-site costs of wind erosion are a function of the level of erosion, the value of property at risk, and attitudes toward cleaning blown dust. These costs increase at a decreasing rate with the level of erosion. Consequently, targeting conservation resources to areas with the highest levels of erosion likely is economically inefficient. Moreover, relatively low levels of erosion control likely are worse than no control at all.
Footnotes
Paul C. Huszar is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State Univeristy, Fort Collins, 80523. Support for this research was provided by the Soil Conservation Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the Colorado State Experiment Station, Fort Collins.
- Copyright 1989 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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