The impact of climate change on the external cost of pesticide applications in US agriculture
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in: International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, Jahrgang 7, Nr. 3, 2009, S. 203-216.
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T1 - The impact of climate change on the external cost of pesticide applications in US agriculture
AU - Koleva, Nikolinka G.
AU - Schneider, Uwe A.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Agricultural pesticides have adverse impacts on the environment and human health. These impacts are sensitive to climate change because pest pressure and optimal pesticide application rates vary with weather and climate conditions. This study uses the Pesticide Environmental Accounting (PEA) tool and statistically estimated relationships between pesticide applications, weather and climate to compute the impacts of climate change on the external cost of pesticide applications. Using data from 32 US states, 56 crops and 325 pesticides, the current average external cost of pesticide use in US agriculture is calculated at US$42 per hectare. Under projected climate change this value increases up to $72 per hectare by 2100.
AB - Agricultural pesticides have adverse impacts on the environment and human health. These impacts are sensitive to climate change because pest pressure and optimal pesticide application rates vary with weather and climate conditions. This study uses the Pesticide Environmental Accounting (PEA) tool and statistically estimated relationships between pesticide applications, weather and climate to compute the impacts of climate change on the external cost of pesticide applications. Using data from 32 US states, 56 crops and 325 pesticides, the current average external cost of pesticide use in US agriculture is calculated at US$42 per hectare. Under projected climate change this value increases up to $72 per hectare by 2100.
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - agricultural pesticides
KW - climate change
KW - environmental costs
KW - externality
KW - United States
KW - Pesticides
KW - Climate change
KW - Aquatic species
KW - Acute toxicity
KW - Chronic risk
KW - United States
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77954060597&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3763/ijas.2009.0459
DO - 10.3763/ijas.2009.0459
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 7
SP - 203
EP - 216
JO - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
JF - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
SN - 1473-5903
IS - 3
ER -