Bio-Economic Models applied to Agricultural Systems

<p>Acknowledgments.- Preface.- Part I.- Ch. 1. Modelling the relationship between agriculture and the environment using bio-economic models: some conceptual issues.- Ch. 2. Bio physical models as detailed engineering production functions.- Ch. 3. Dynamic optimisation problems: Different resolution methods regarding agriculture and natural resource economics.- Ch. 4. Biophysical models for cropping system simulation.- Part II.- Ch. 5. Incorporating yield information from a biogeochemical model into an agricultural production model to infer adoption of a new bioenergy crop.- Ch. 6. Agri-environmental nitrogen indicators for EU27.- Ch. 7. Modelling Nitrogen balance for a regional scale livestock-pasture system as a discussion support tool.- Ch. 8. Using a Bio-economic Model to Assess the Cost-effectiveness of Measures against Nitrogen Pollution.- Ch. 9. On-farm weather risk management in suckler cow farms: A recursive discrete stochastic programming approach.- Ch. 10. Integrated bio-economic farm modeling for biodiversity assessment at landscape level.- Conclusions.</p>