Category Archives: Agriculture

A Policy Case Study: UK Livestock and Methane

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Adam Bailey

In a previous post I proposed, as one element in the UK’s climate change policy, a tax on the sale of beef with the aim of reducing beef production and so reducing methane emissions from cattle.  Here I consider the … Continue reading →

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A Correction – Methane Emissions from UK Livestock

Posted on December 7, 2024 by Adam Bailey

Methane emissions per unit from lamb production are comparable with those from beef production. In the second of my series of posts analysing UK climate change policy, I presented calculations of the methane emitted per kilogram carcass weight in the … Continue reading →

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An Economic Story

Posted on February 23, 2024 by Adam Bailey

In the About page of this blog, I wrote that there is “an important role for non-theoretical descriptive economics, as a preliminary to theorising and policy analysis”.  In this post I stretch the idea of descriptive economics quite a long … Continue reading →

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Groundwater – the Essentials

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Adam Bailey

Everyone is familiar with water in the form of rain, rivers, lakes and seas.  But  groundwater is less well-known.  Here are the essentials, in Question and Answer form. What is groundwater? Underground water in saturated layers of porous rock or … Continue reading →

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