We argue that to support agriculture–environmental policy decision making, stakeholders need ‘quantitative back-of-the-envelope’ analysis that is timely and sufficiently accurate to make informed decisions. We apply this concept to the analysis of the supply of ecosystem services from...

This study examined possible economic impacts on Northern Plains grain producers of policies that could be undertaken by the United States to comply with the Kyoto Protocol.The paper begins with a discussion of the potential effects of the Kyoto Protocol on prices of energy and inputs used in...

Under the Kyoto protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change the United States is charged with reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to seven percent below their 1990 levels by the period 2008-2012. These reductions could be met from many industries including...

This study examined possible economic impacts on Northern Plains grain producers of policies that could be undertaken by the United States to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. The paper begins with a discussion of the potential effects of the Kyoto Protocol on prices of energy and inputs used in...

We argue that to support agriculture–environmental policy decision making, stakeholdersneed ‘quantitative back-of-the-envelope’ analysis that is timely and sufficientlyaccurate to make informed decisions. We apply this concept to the analysis of the supplyof ecosystem services from...