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Sustainability Issues: How Should Government Coordinate Farm Regulations and Policy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Larry A. Johnson
Larry A. Johnson*
Affiliation:
Sustainable Agriculture at the Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, Alabama 35660
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Abstract

Agricultural sustainability is an evolving process ever-seeking a balance between society's economic, environmental and social demands. Governmental policy and regulations while attempting to correct adverse externalities, have at times within themselves created adverse externalities. Failures often lie within the policies themselves, but poor coordination among government agencies is also at fault. This paper outlines a number of coordination issues and attempts to show how the empowerment of communities through ecosystem management is a partial solution to environmental degradation.

Keywords

environmental regulationgovernment policyregulationsustainabilityecosystem management
Type
Invited Papers and Discussions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , July 1994 , pp. 75 - 79
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1994

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