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This book covers a range of topics which touch on these important issues and range from agricultural production and sector modeling, to natural resource management and—ultimately—to analytically guided decision support to assess various policy options. The examples laid out in the chapters range beyond California and illustrate the wide-ranging applicability of robust quantitative methods that can be applied to a variety of agricultural policy and resource management problems. The range of work contained in this book represents the breadth of Richard E. Howitt’s academic and professional interests, and the immense influence that his research and teaching career have had on the agricultural and resource economics profession, and on the professionals themselves, who are represented by the authors in each chapter.

This book came out of a Festschrift conference that was held for Richard E. Howitt in late …