Roger Claassen

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed and analyzed U.S. agri-environmental programs using literature review and program data, focusing on several key questions: has benefit-cost targeting increased the environmental benefit obtained from program budgets? Has competitive bidding reduced program costs? To what extent have these program designs resulted in additional gain (that would not have otherwise been obtained)?

TL;DR: This article examined the business, operator, and household characteristics of farms that adopt conservation-compatible practices, with and without financial assistance from conservation programs, and found that farm operator and household attributes, and farm business characteristics, affect the likelihood that a farmer adopts certain kinds of conservation compatible practices.

TL;DR: The authors examines differences between public and private incentives regarding wetlands and assesses the need for continued wetlands protection policies as the United States approaches achieving the goal of no net loss of wetlands, concluding that owners of wetlands are often unable to profit from these services because the benefits created are freely enjoyed by many.

TL;DR: In this paper, two alternative strategies for reducing nutrient loads from cropland are to reduce fertilizer application rates and to filter nutrients coming off croplands with restored wetlands, evaluated in the Mississippi Basin, where nutrient loadings to the Gulf of Mexico have caused a large zone of hypoxic waters.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the types of policy tools available and the design features that have improved the effectiveness of current programs and provide an indepth analysis of one policy tool that may be an important component of a future policy package.