With some agri-environmental restrictions, municipal wastewater can be utilized for agricultural irrigation and river rehabilitation. This paper develops a single-year planning model for a region in Israel which consists of a city and three potential wastewater consumers. The model incorporates,...

Crop insurance provides a potential tool for reducing agricultural chemical use by providing a substitute for the risk management benefits of pesticides. This article describes the results obtained from an integrated modeling system developed to assess the efficacy of crop insurance used in this...

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Concern is growing throughout the United States about environmental and health risks associated with the use of agricultural chemicals. In response to these concerns, public policies designed to alter farming practices and the use of agricultural chemicals are being proposed and implemented. In...

We examine the role of altruism in determining optimal transfers from a principal (a mother) to selfish agents (her children) in return for attention services. Transfer-attention contracts are studied in a setting in which informational asymmetries arise from the inability of a parent to...

Purpose – Enabling decision-makers in Israel to better assess the prospects of government policies aimed at changing inter-generation income distribution for the benefit of the retirees. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a comprehensive data set, the paper utilizes multivariate...

This paper develops and applies a mathematical model for determining the economically optimal scheduling of fertilization and irrigation (fertigation) that maximizes the farmer's profits. The analysis assumes a single crop (corn) and a single growing season. For a given total seasonal...

This paper develops a regional-level planning model aimed at allocating treated sewage sludge among potential users. The model incorporates, in one endogenous system, the economic, biological and environmental relationships and its objective is to maximize the regional social welfare. A few...