This study evaluates the tradeoff between agricultural production and water quality for individual producers using an integrated economic-biophysical hybrid genetic algorithm. We apply a multi-input, multi-output profit maximization model to detailed farm-level production data from the Oregon...

This paper builds on earlier efforts to integrate preferences into a DEA model. Rather than including an explicit utility function as a constraint to a DEA problem as in Färe et al. (2002), here we use the notion of dominance to identify a ’¡Ærevealed’¡Ç indifference curve, which is...

Environmental policy related to agriculture is generally administered by a government agency charged with achieving legislative objectives. The enabling legislation of an agency typically establishes a set of tools that the agency uses to influence the behavior on non-governmental agricultural...

The objective of this research was the development of a method that integrated an activity analysis model of profits from production with a biophysical model, and included the capacity for optimization over multiple objectives. We specified a hybrid genetic algorithm using activity analysis as a...