Economic Perspectives on Water Resources, Climate Change, and Agricultural Sustainability

Gary D. Libecap and Ariel Dinar, Organizers

May 12-13, 2022

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Thursday, May 12
11:00 am	Welcome and Overview Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Spiro Stefanou, Administrator, USDA-ERS
11:15 am	Charles A Taylor, Harvard University Irrigation and Climate Change: Long-Run Adaptation and its Externalities
11:16 am	Discussant/Moderator: Tamma A. Carleton, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
11:50 am	Eric C. Edwards, University of California Davis Wally N. Thurman, North Carolina State University The Institutional Costs of Adaptation: Agricultural Drainage in the United States (slides)
	Robert A. Hrozencik, USDA-ERS Nicholas A. Potter, USDA-ERS Steven Wallander, USDA-ERS A National Estimate of Irrigation Canal Lining and Piping Water Conservation (slides)
11:52 am	Discussant/Moderator: Karina Schoengold, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
12:50 pm	Break
1:10 pm	Daniel C. Cooley, Colorado School of Mines Steven M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines Center Pivot Irrigation Systems as a Form of Drought Risk Mitigation in Humid Regions
	Nicole Karwowski, University of Wisconsin Estimating the Effect of Easements on Agricultural Production
1:12 pm	Discussant/Moderator: Zeynep K. Hansen, Boise State University and NBER
2:10 pm	Jonathan R. McFadden, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture David J. Smith, Environmental Protection Agency Steven Wallander, USDA-ERS Weather, Climate, and Technology Adoption: An Application to Drought-Tolerant Corn in the United States
	Fengxia Dong, USDA-ERS Cover Crops, Drought, Yield, and Risk: An Analysis of U.S. Soybean Production
2:12 pm	Discussant/Moderator: Prabhu Pingali, Cornell University
3:10 pm	Group Discussion Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
3:30 pm	Adjourn
Friday, May 13
11:00 am	Joey Blumberg, Colorado State University Chris Goemans, Colorado State University Dale Manning, Colorado State University Producer Beliefs and Conservation: The Impact of Perceived Water Scarcity on Irrigation Technology Adoption
	Levan Elbakidze, West Virginia University Yuelu Xu, West Virginia University Philip W. Gassman, Iowa State University Jeffrey G. Arnold, USDA-ARS Haw Yen, Auburn University Climate Change and Downstream Water Quality in Agricultural Production: The Case of Nutrient Runoff to the Gulf of Mexico
	Konstantinos Metaxoglou, Carleton University Aaron Smith, University of California, Davis Nutrient Pollution and U.S. Agriculture: Causal Effects, Integrated Assessment, and Implications of Climate Change
11:03 am	Discussant/Moderator: Lynne Y. Lewis, Bates College
12:25 pm	Break
12:45 pm	Ellen M. Bruno, University of California, Berkeley Nick Hagerty, Montana State University Arthur R. Wardle, University of California, Berkeley The Regulatory Cost and Political Economy of Managing California’s Groundwater
	Kent Kovacs, USDA-ERS Shelby Rider, University of Arkansas Estimating the Demand for In-situ Groundwater for Climate Resilience: The Case of the Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer in Arkansas
12:47 pm	Discussant/Moderator: Andrew B. Ayres, Public Policy Institute of California
1:45 pm	Group Discussion Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
2:15 pm	Adjourn