| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w30081 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 30081 |
| The Institutional Costs of Adaptation: Agricultural Drainage in the United States | |
| Eric C. Edwards; Walter N. Thurman | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-05-30 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Tile drainage was first demonstrated in the United States in 1835 as a method to adapt agriculture to excessive water in soils. Subsequently, innovations in coordinated drainage enterprises, engineering, and tile manufacture led to drainage over large portions of the U.S. Midwest and Southeast. Of the 215 million acres of wetlands estimated to have existed in the contiguous United States at colonization, 124 million have been drained, 80-87% for agricultural purposes. In this paper we argue that a key institutional innovation, the drainage management district, facilitated local investment in drainage. States in our sample adopted drainage laws between 1857 and 1932, and after adoption each state saw an increase in improved agricultural land in counties with poorly drained soils relative to well drained counties. We estimate artificial drainage increased the value of agricultural land in each of the worst-drained counties of the eastern United States by 13.5-30.3%, a total increase in these counties of $7-17B (2020 dollars). With the increasing likelihood of extreme precipitation events across the entire U.S., technical innovation in drain tile will be a key component of adaptation to climate change. Our paper points as well to the importance of institutional innovation and its associated costs. |
| 主题 | History ; Other History ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Agriculture ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w30081 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587755 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Eric C. Edwards,Walter N. Thurman. The Institutional Costs of Adaptation: Agricultural Drainage in the United States. 2022. |
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