American Agriculture, Water Resources, and Climate Change

Gary D. Libecap is professor emeritus in the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Ariel Dinar is professor of environmental economics and policy at the University of California, Riverside.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
   Gary D. Libecap and Ariel Dinar
1. The Economics of Climatic Adaptation: Agricultural Drainage in the United States
   Eric C. Edwards and Walter N. Thurman
2. Estimating the Effect of Easements on Agricultural Production
   Nicole Karwowski
3. The Cost-Effectiveness of Irrigation Canal Lining and Piping in the Western United States
   R. Aaron Hrozencik, Nicholas A. Potter, and Steven Wallander
4. Center Pivot Irrigation Systems as a Form of Drought Risk Mitigation in Humid Regions
   Daniel Cooley and Steven M. Smith
5. Perceived Water Scarcity and Irrigation Technology Adoption
   Joey Blumberg, Christopher Goemans, and Dale Manning
6. Climate, Drought Exposure, and Technology Adoption: An Application to Drought-Tolerant Corn in the United States
   Jonathan McFadden, David Smith, and Steven Wallander
7. Cover Crops, Drought, Yield, and Risk: An Analysis of US Soybean Production
   Fengxia Dong
8. Climate Change and Downstream Water Quality in Agricultural Production: The Case of Nutrient Runoff to the Gulf of Mexico
   Levan Elbakidze, Yuelu Xu, Philip W. Gassman, Jeffrey G. Arnold, and Haw Yen
9. Nutrient Pollution and US Agriculture: Causal Effects, Integrated Assessment, and Implications of Climate Change
   Konstantinos Metaxoglou and Aaron Smith
10. The Political Economy of Groundwater Management: Descriptive Evidence from California
   Ellen M. Bruno, Nick Hagerty, and Arthur R. Wardle
11. Estimating the Demand for In Situ Groundwater for Climate Resilience: The Case of the Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer in Arkansas
   Kent F. Kovacs and Shelby Rider
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