Some Theoretical Aspects of Short Duration Grazing

18 Pages Posted: 13 Jan 2002

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Abstract

This paper addresses the following hitherto unstudied question in rangeland management: How should a range manager - who is interested in the ecological and the economic aspects of management - set the temporal control optimally for rangelands that are managed with short duration grazing? We use a dynamic and stochastic framework to first derive the range manager's long run average net cost function. We then show that the optimal temporal control minimizes this objective function.

Keywords: Ecological Economics, Range Management, Temporal Control, Uncertainty

JEL Classification: Q20, D81

Suggested Citation

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A., Some Theoretical Aspects of Short Duration Grazing. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=296763 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.296763

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