Population and the Environment

Population and the Environment: Too Many People and/or Poor Management of Resources, 2000.

This book was published in spring 2000 by CSRD and the College of Natural Resources, with the support of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and is now available for distribution. The book is a proceedings of the international conference of the same name held at UC Berkeley on May 24, 1999 and includes the full keynote address by Dr. Joel Cohen, as well as presentations made by nine other speakers and five one-on-one interviews.This publication is available from CSRD; please contact Robin Marsh at csrd@nature.berkeley.edu to secure your copy.

Determinants of Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Role of Household Assets and Environmental Factors
by Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Benjamin Davis, Kevin Seidel, and Paul Winters, April 1997, WP#853

Family and Community Networks in Mexico-U.S. Migration
Paul Winters, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, August 1997, WP#846

Household Modeling for the Design of Poverty Alleviation Strategies
by Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, June 1996, WP#787
 

Water

The following documents are transcripts of talks presented at the Spring 2000 Berkeley Water Working Group Speaker Series.  For further information on these transcripts, contact Isha Ray or Christina Erickson.
 

Anticipating future demand and supply 

Technology, incentives and demand

Water trades in California

Water re-allocation in theory and practice

Natural resources, society and sustainability

Water allocation among new and traditional users

Water allocation and gender -- an analysis from Bangladesh

Global Environment

These papers were prepared in support of a 1998 workshop on CO₂ sequestration schemes and markets for carbon trading in U.S. agricultural and energy sectors.

Soil C Sink in U.S. Cropland
by R. Lal and J.M. Kimble 

Assessing the Economics of Carbon Sequestration In Agriculture
by Luther Tweeten, Brent Sohngen, and Jeff Hopkins

This paper was been prepared through CSRD collaborations.

Climate Change, Agriculture, and Developing Economies
by Paul Winters, Rinku Murgai, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Alain de Janvry, and George Frisvold, February 1996, WP#785
 

Technology and Innovation

Agriculture Biotechnology and Poverty: Can the Potential be Made a Reality?
by Alain de Janvry, Gregory Graff, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and David Zilberman

An Industry-Academia-International Development Roundtable Workshop: Intellectual Property Clearinghouse Mechanisms for Agriculture
by Gregory Graff, Alan Bennett, Brian Wright, and David Zilberman
 

Communities and Natural Resource Management

Endogenous Provision and Appropriation in the Commons
by Alain de Janvry, Nancy McCarthy, and Elisabeth Sadoulet, January 1998, WP#844

Louise Fortmann and Jonathan Kusel. 1990. "New Voices, Old Beliefs: Forest Environmentalism Among New and Long-standing Rural Residents" Rural Sociology 55(2): 214-232.

John Bruce and Louise Fortmann. 1991. "Property and Forestry" Journal of Business Administration 20 (1&2): 471-496.

Louise Fortmann. 1996. "Gender, Knowledge, Rights, and Space in Two Zimbabwe Villages: Reflections on Methods and Findings." in Dianne Rocheleau, B. Slayter-Thomas, Esther Wangari (ed), Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences. New York and London: Outledge Press:211-223.

John Bruce, Louise Fortmann, and Calvin Nhira. 1993. "Tenures in Transition, Tenures in Conflict: Examples from the Zimbabwe Social Forest". Rural Sociology: 58(4): 626-642

Nancy Peluso, Craig Humphrey and Louise Fortmann. 1994. "The Rock, the Beach and the Tidepool: People and Poverty in Natural Resource-Dependent Areas" Society and Natural Resources. 7:23-38.

Louise Fortmann. 1995. "Talking Claims: Discursive Strategies in Contesting Property" World Development: 23 (6):1053-1063.
 

Agriculture Policy and Resource Management

NAFTA and Agriculture: An Early Assessment
by Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Benjamin Davis,
April 1997, WP#807

Social and Environmental Consequences of the Mexican Reforms: Common Pool Resources in the Ejido Sector
by Nigel Key, Carlos Muñoz-Piña, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet, June 1998, WP#851
 

Pest Management

Books

Gutierrez, A.P. 1996. 1996. Applied Population Ecology: a supply-demand approach. John Wiley and Sons, New York. 300 pp.

Huffaker, C.B. and A.P. Gutierrez (editors) Ecological Entomology (2nd edition) John Wiley and Sons. (in progress)

Biological Control

Gutierrez, A. P., J. S. Yaninek, B. Wermelinger, H. R. Herren and C. K. Ellis. 1988. Analysis of biological control of
cassava pests in Africa: III. Cassava green mite Mononychellus tanajoa. J. Appl. Ecol. 25: 941-950.

Mills, N. J. and A.P. Gutierrez. 1996. Prospective modeling in biological control: an analysis of the dynamics of
heteronomous hyperparasitism. J. Animal Ecol. 33:1379-1394.

Modeling

Gutierrez, A. P., W. J. Dos Santos, M. A. Pizzamiglio, A. M. Villacorta, C. K. Ellis, C.A.P. Fernandes and I. Tutida.
Modelling the interaction of cotton and the cotton boll weevil. II. Boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) in Brazil. J. Appl. Ecol. 28: 398-418.

Gutierrez, A.P., J.R. Hakim Cure E. Mariot and A. Villacorta. 1993. A model for the growth and development of three
varieties of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.): Factors affecting yield and quality. Agricultural Systems 44: 35-63.

Gutierrez, A.P., S.J. Mills, S.J. Schreiber and C.K. Ellis. 1994. A Physiologically Based Tritrophic Perspective on Bottom-Up-Top-Down Regulation of Populations. Ecology 75: 2227-2242.

Pesticides and the Environment

Erik Lichtenberg and David Zilberman, “Efficient Regulation of Environmental Health Risks:  The Case of Groundwater Contamination in California,” Ricerche Economiche, Vol. XXXIX, No. 4 (October-December, 1985), pp. 540-549.

Erik Lichtenberg and David Zilberman, “Regulating Environmental and Human Risks from Agricultural Residuals,” Applied Agricultural Research (December, 1986) (also published in University of California Systemwide Proceedings).

Erik Lichtenberg and David Zilberman, “Efficient Regulation of Environmental Health Risks,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. CIII (February, 1988), pp. 167-178.

Erik Lichtenberg, David Zilberman, and Kenneth T. Bogen, “Regulating Environmental Health Risks under Uncertainty:  Groundwater Contamination in California,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 17 (1989), pp. 22-34.

David Sunding, David, Zilberman, Gordon Rausser, and Alan Marco, “Flexible Technology and the Cost of Improving Groundwater Quality,” Natural Resource Modeling, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Spring, 1995), pp. 177-192.

Renan U. Goetz and David Zilberman, "The Dynamics of Spatial Pollution: The Case of Phosphorus Runoff from Agricultural Land." Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 24 (2000), p. 143-163.

David Zilberman, Jerome B. Siebert, and Joshua Zivin, “Environmental Issues in California Agriculture,” California Agriculture:  Issues and Challenges, ed. Jerome B. Siebert (University of California, Giannini Foundation, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, August, 1997), pp. 195-214.

Sunding, David and Joshua Zivin.  “Insect Population Dynamics, Pesticide Use and Farmworker Health.”  2000.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics: in press.

Sunding, David, David Zilberman, Gordon Rausser and Alan Marco.  1995.  “Flexible Technology and the Cost of Improving Groundwater Quality.”  Natural Resource Modeling 9(2): 177-192.

Sunding, David and Joshua Zivin.  “The Relative Efficiency of Pesticide Taxes and Workplace Safety Regulations in Reducing the Incidence of Farmworker Poisoning.”  Revision requested by American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Hamilton, Stephen F., David Sunding and David Zilberman.  “Public Goods and the Value of Product Quality Regulations: The Case of Food Safety.”

Hueth, Brent, Michelle McGregor and David Sunding.  April 1999.  Economic Impact of Restricting Use of Compound 1080 in California’s Intermountain Region.

Hueth, Brent, Grazyna Michalska, David Sunding and David Zilberman.  August 1998.  Economic Importance of Organophosphates in California Agriculture.

Sunding, David.  March 1994.  Economic Impacts of Mevinphos Cancellation in California.

Brown, Cheryl, Valerie Brown, Bob Chavez and David Sunding.  October 1993.  Economic Impacts of Federal Worker Protection Standards.  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.

Sunding, David and Alan Marco.  March 1993.  The Economic Consequences of Enforcing the Delaney Clause.

Pesticide Productivity

Erik Lichtenberg and David Zilberman, “The Econometrics of Damage Control:  Why Specification Matters,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 68 (1986), pp. 262-273.

Carolyn R. Harper and David Zilberman, “Pest Externalities from Agricultural Inputs,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 71, No. 3 (August, 1989), pp. 692-702.

Bruce A. Babcock, Erik Lichtenberg, and David Zilberman, “Impact of Damage Control and Quality of Output:  Estimating Pest Control Effectiveness,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 74, No. 1 (February, 1992), pp. 165-172.

Erik Lichtenberg, Robert C. Spear, and David Zilberman, “The Economics of Reentry Regulation of Pesticides,”  American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 75 (November, 1993), pp. 946-958.

David Zilberman and Federico Castillo, “Economic and Health Consequences of Pesticide Use in Developing Country Agriculture: Discussion,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 76 (August, 1994), pp. 603 and 604.

Madhu Khanna and David Zilberman, “Incentives, Precision Technology and Environmental Quality,” Ecological Economics, Vol. 23, No. 1 (October, 1997), pp 25-43.

Robin R. Marsh and David Zilberman, “Profile of the United States Artichoke Industry:  Production, Marketing and Pest Management Characteristics,” Report prepared for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Project:  Modeling the Impacts of Pesticides Use in Specialty Crop Markets, August, 1989.

Sunding, David, Jerome Siebert, David Zilberman and Michael Roberts.  January 1993.  Economic Impact of the Silverleaf Whitefly.

Pesticides and Agriculture Policy

Erik Lichtenberg and David Zilberman, “The Welfare Economics of Price Supports in U. S. Agriculture,” American Economic Review, Vol. 76, No. 5 (December, 1986), pp. 1135-1141.

Richard E. Just and David Zilberman, “A Methodology for Evaluating Equity Implications of Environmental Policy Decisions in Agriculture,” Land Economics, Vol. 64, No. 1 (February, 1988), pp. 37-52.

Erik Lichtenberg, Douglas D. Parker, and David Zilberman, “Marginal Analysis of Welfare Costs of Environmental Policies:  The Case of Pesticide Regulation,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 70, No. 4 (November, 1988), pp. 867-874.

Carolyn R. Harper and David Zilberman, “Pesticides and Worker Safety,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 74, No. 1 (February, 1992), pp. 68-78.

David Zilberman and Katti Millock, “Financial Incentives and Pesticide Use,”  Food Policy, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1997), pp. 133-144.

David Zilberman and Katti Millock, “Pesticide Use and Regulation:  Making Economic Sense Out of an Externality and Regulation Nightmare,” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1997), pp. 321-332.

David Zilberman, David Sunding, Michael Dobler, Mark Campbell, and Andrew Manale, “Who Makes Pesticide Use Decisions:  Implications for Policymakers,” Pesticide Use and Product Quality, ed. Walter Armbruster (Oak Brook:  Farm Foundation, 1994), pp. 23-39. 

Sandra O. Archibald, Timothy H. Brown, and David Zilberman, “Modeling Impacts of Fungicide Cancellations in the U. S. Apple Market,” Report prepared for the Western Consortium for Public Health, September, 1989.

Erik Lichtenberg, Douglas Parker, and David Zilberman, Economic Impacts of Canceling Parathion Registration for Almonds, Report prepared for the Western Consortium for the Health Professions, Inc., and the Environmental Protection Agency, May, 1987.

Erik Lichtenberg, Douglas Parker, David Zilberman, and Robert A. Van Steenwyck, Economic Impacts of Canceling Parathion Registration for Plums and Prunes, Report prepared for the Western Consortium for the Health Professionals, Inc., and the Environmental Protection Agency, May, 1987.

Erik Lichtenberg, Douglas Parker, and David Zilberman, Economic Impacts of Canceling Parathion Registration for Lettuce, Report prepared for the Western Consortium for the Health Professionals, Inc., and the Environmental Protection Agency, June, 1987.

Hamilton, Stephen F. and David Sunding.  2000.  “Product Liability, Entry Incentives and Market Structure.” International Review of Law and Economics: in press.

Hamilton, Stephen F. and David Sunding.  1998.  “Returns to Public Investment in Agriculture with Imperfect Downstream Competition.”  American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80(November): 830-838.

Sunding, David and David Zilberman.  1998.  “Allocating Product Liability in a Multimarket Setting.”  International Review of Law and Economics 18(March): 1-11.

Lichtenberg, Erik, Douglas D. Parker, David Sunding and David Zilberman.  1997.  “Economics and Pesticide Regulation.” Choices (Fourth Quarter): 26-29.

Zilberman, David, David Sunding and Madhu Khanna.  1997.  “The Changing Nature of Agricultural Markets: Implications for Privatization of Technology, Information Transfer and Land Grant Research and Extension.” In: Stephen Wolf (ed.), Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization. New York: CRC Press.

Sunding, David.  1996.  “Measuring the Marginal Cost of Non-Uniform Environmental Regulations.”  American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78(November): 1098-1107.

Methyl Bromide

Cherisa Yarkin, David Sunding, David Zilberman, and Jerry Siebert, “Cancelling Methyl Bromide for Postharvest Use to Trigger Mixed Economic Results,” California Agriculture, Vol. 48, No. 3 (May-June, 1994), pp. 16-21.

Cherisa Yarkin, David Sunding, David Zilberman, and Jerry Siebert, “Methyl Bromide Regulation . . . All Crops Should Not Be Treated Equally,” California Agriculture, Vol. 48, No. 3 (May-June, 1994), pp. 10-15.

Hueth, Brent, David Sunding, Bruce McWilliams and David Zilberman. 1999.  “Methyl Iodide as an Alternative to Methyl Bromide.” Review of Agricultural Economics: in press.

McWilliams, Bruce, David Sunding, Brent Hueth, Lori Lynch, David Zilberman and Jerome Siebert.  January 1998.  Economics Impacts on California Agriculture of Banning Methyl Bromide Use.

Residential Pesticide Use

Scott R. Templeton, David Zilberman, and Seung Jick Yoo, “An Economic Perspective on Outdoor Residential Pesticide Use,” Environmental Science and Technology News  (September, 1998), pp. 416a-423a.

Scott R. Templeton, Seung Jick Yoo and David Zilberman, “An Economic Analysis of Yard Care and Synthetic Chemical Use:  The Case of San Francisco,”  Environmental and Resource Economics, 1-13, 1998.

Food Quality Protection Act

McWilliams, Bruce et al.  November 1999.  The Economic Importance of Organophosphates in California Agriculture.

McWilliams, Bruce, David Sunding, Yuria Tanimichi and David Zilberman. September 1999.  Costs of Implementing the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 on California Agriculture.
 

Working Papers

Lost in the Woods? Competing Knowledges in Finland's Forest Debates
by Eeva Berglund

Policy Optics for Rethinking Poverty, Defense and the Environment Entirely
by Emery Roe

High Reliability Pastoralism
by Emery Roe

Taxation Policy: Its Role in Environmental Protection and Resources Conservation in China
by Xuejun Wang

Knowledge, Toxicity, and External Shocks: The Determinants of Adoption and Abandonment of Non-traditional Export Crops by Smallholders in Guatemala
by Calogero Carletto, Alain de Janvry,and Elisabeth Sadoulet, May 1996, WP#791

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Biotechnology and the Public Interest
Academic, government, and industry experts speak about the implementation of new biotechnologies in agriculture and their effects on communities around the globe. (Forthcoming.) 

Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change: The Science and the Policy
Research scientists and policy experts address approaches to understanding climate change, methods of modeling responses to change, and strategies for implementing markets in carbon sequestration credits. Conference held in March 2000. (Forthcoming.) 

Population and the Environment
Proceedings from a conference held in May 1999. As keynote speaker Dr. Joel Cohen explains, to understand this issue we must keep in mind four words: population, environment, economics, and culture. (2000; 45 min.) 

Where We Live: Neighborhood Environmental Watch
Funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Neighborhood Environment Watch program brings Oakland youth together with College of Natural Resources students and faculty in a mix of environmental education, job training, and community revitalization. (2000; 11 min.) 

Water in the West
Academic experts from throughout the Western US speak about water and the role of water markets in their states. Narrative segments detail the historical, economic, and social elements of the water issue. (Revised, 1999; 36 min.) 

Impacts of Global Climate Change and Mitigation Strategies on US Agriculture
Proceedings from a conference held in Washington, DC in May 1998. Speakers include Keith Collins of the USDA on climate change and the Kyoto Protocol. Other topics covered: the effects of climate change on agriculture in the Midwest US, local variation in the effects of climate change, and the potential for carbon sequestration as a mitigation strategy. (1998; 26 min.) 

Knowledge Generation and Transfer
Presentations from a two-day conference in June 1998 examine the development and dissemination of knowledge, in particular the changing role of agricultural extension; the relationship between university, industry, and government; and issues of intellectual property rights. (Edited version forthcoming.)

Sustainable Nutritional Security for Sub-Saharan Women Subsistence Farmers
In virtually every low-income country, the task of providing sustainable nutritional security for their households falls to women. Means of increasing women's productive capabilities are examined in presentations to the International Agricultural Economics Association symposium, August 1997, chaired by Dr. Sylvia Lane. (1999; 50 min.) 

California Water: Issues and Answers
Dr. David Zilberman lectures on the relative value of water, improvements in water-use efficiency motivated by the drought of the late 1980s-early 1990s, and the potential role of water markets in California. (1997; 43 min.) 

The Transition to Hi-Tech Agriculture: Implications for California's Central Valley

Roundtable Discussion on the Future of the Central Valley
Proceedings from a roundtable discussion held at UC Berkeley in March 1996, focusing on urbanization pressures, biotech applications, water, and the environment. (1996; 40 min.) 

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