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The cost of crop damage caused by ozone air pollution from motor vehicles |
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| Authors: | J J Murphy M A Delucchi D R McCubbin H J Kim |
| Institution: | a Economic Science Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA;b Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA;c Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, 95616, USA;d Department of Economics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, USA;e Environmental Economics Division, Office of Policy, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460, USA |
| Abstract: | The effects of ozone air pollution on the agricultural sector are an important environmental challenge facing policy makers. Most studies of the economic impact of air pollution on agriculture have found that a 25% reduction in ambient ozone would provide benefits of at least $1–2 billion annually in the United States. This paper extends existing research by estimating the benefits of a reduction in emissions from a major source of ozone formation: motor-vehicle emissions. An agricultural production model is combined with an analysis of motor-vehicle emissions and air quality to estimate the impacts of emissions from six different motor-vehicle classes, at both the regional and national level. The benefits to the agricultural sector from completely eliminating ozone precursor emissions from motor vehicles ranges between $3·5 and $6·1 billion annually. |
| Keywords: | economics air pollution environmental policy motor-vehicle emissions agricultural production |
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