@article{Brethour:177156,
      recid = {177156},
      author = {Brethour, Cher and Weersink, Alfons},
      title = {An economic evaluation of the environmental benefits from  pesticide reduction},
      journal = {Agricultural Economics: The Journal of the International  Association of Agricultural Economists},
      address = {2001-09},
      number = {968-2016-75604},
      pages = {8},
      year = {2001},
      abstract = {Previous studies on the environmental impacts of pesticide  use have tended to focus either on measuring damages  through
changes in relative risks to various environmental  categories or examining the trade-off between pesticide use  levels and
abatement costs. This study uses the physical  risk assessment approach combined with contingent valuation  survey results on
consumers' willingness to reduce  pesticide risk. The reduction in external costs associated  with the changes in pesticide use
in Ontario agriculture  between 1983 and 1998 is US$ 188 per household. The  environmental benefits are largely due to the
reduction in  the level of high and moderate-risk pesticides. © 2001  Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/177156},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.177156},
}