Assessing the Economic Impacts of Pesticide Regulations

RR692 - Assessing the cumulative economic impacts of health and safety regulations

Pesticide use and economic impacts on health.

OBJECTIVE To estimate the externalities associated with acute poisoning from pesticides. METHODS The probabilities of acute poisoning were estimated according to characteristics of rural properties and cities in the state of Paraná, Southern Brazil. Information about acute poisoning obtained from the 1998-1999 Harvest Forecast Survey was used. The expected costs with poisoning in these proper...

Economic linkage impacts of Hawaii’s longline fishing regulations

Fisheries regulations driven by environmental concerns would not only directly affect fisheries sectors but also tend to indirectly influence other sectors through intersectoral input–output linkages. This paper examines both backward and forward linkages of Hawaii’s fisheries sectors to the rest of the economy, and based on this evaluates the potential economic impacts of longline fishing regu...

Assessing Socio-Economic Impacts of GMOs

Executive Summary This Report This report is motivated by the conclusions of EU Council of Environment Ministers of December 4, 2008, asking the European Commission to explore the possibility to consider other factors beyond health and environmental risks, i.e. " socioeconomic benefits and risks and agronomic sustainability " (all covered by the term socioeconomic in this report) in GMO market ...

Pesticide regulations and farm worker safety: the need to improve pesticide regulations in Viet Nam.

Agricultural pesticide use in Viet Nam has more than tripled since 1990. However, pesticide legislation and regulations have not been developed in response to this large increase in usage, as a result of which pesticides pose a serious threat to human health and the environment. This paper identifies the need to improve pesticide regulations in Viet Nam through a comparative analysis of pestici...