| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w10055 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 10055 |
| Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930's | |
| Zeynep K. Hansen; Gary D. Libecap | |
| 发表日期 | 2003-11-03 |
| 出版年 | 2003 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We provide a new and more complete analysis of the origins of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, one of the most severe environmental crises in North America in the 20th Century. Severe drought and wind erosion hit the Great Plains in 1930 and lasted through 1940. There were similar droughts in the 1950s and 1970s, but no comparable level of wind erosion. We explain why. The prevalence of small farms in the 1930s limited private solutions for controlling the downwind externalities associated with wind erosion. Drifting sand from unprotected fields damaged neighboring farms. Small farmers cultivated more of their land and were less likely to invest in erosion control than were larger farmers. Soil Conservation Districts, established by government after 1937, helped coordinate erosion control. This unitized' solution for collective action is similar to that used in other natural resource/environmental settings. |
| 主题 | Environmental and Resource Economics ; Renewable Resources ; History ; Other History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w10055 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/567683 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zeynep K. Hansen,Gary D. Libecap. Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930's. 2003. |
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| w10055.pdf（723KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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