TY - BOOK ID - 92514590 TI - Coping with Risk in Agriculture : Applied Decision Analysis AU - Hardaker, J. B. AU - Lien, G. AU - Anderson, J. R. AU - Huirne, R. B. M. PY - 2015 SN - 1780642415 1780645740 PB - Wallingford : CABI, DB - UniCat KW - Farm management -- Decision making. KW - Farm management -- Risk assessment. KW - Farm management. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:92514590 AB - Risk and uncertainty are inescapable factors in agriculture which require careful management. Farmers face production risks from the weather, crop and livestock performance, and pests and diseases, as well as institutional, personal and business risks. This revised third edition of the popular textbook includes updated chapters on theory and methods and contains a new chapter discussing the state-contingent approach to the analysis of production and the use of copulas to better model stochastic dependency. Aiming to introduce agricultural decision making, probability and risk preference, this ER -