Theory, Modeling and Experience in the Management of Nonpoint-Source Pollution

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Presents a state-of-the-art review and discussion of economists' efforts to resolve this major problem.

Contents

Information problems in the design of nonpoint source pollution, J.B. Braden and K. Segerson; differences in the transaction costs of strategies to control agricultural offsite and undersite damages, K.W. Easter; regulatory/economic intruments for agricultural pollution - accounting for input substitution, M.E. Eiswerth; nonpoint source pollution control, information asymmetry, and the choice of time profile for environmental fees, C. Dosi and M. Moretto; point/nonpoint source trading for controlling pollutant loadings to coastal waters - a feasibility study, D. Letson, et al; integrating economic & physical models for analyzing environmental effects of agricultural policy on nonpoint-source pollution, J.M. Antle and S.M. Capalbo; data requirements for modeling and evaluation of national policies aimed at controlling agricultural sources of nonpoint water pollution, R.A. Shoemaker, et al; analysis of policy options for the control of agricultural pollution in California's San Joaquin River Basin, M. Weinberg, et al; regional modeling and economic incentives to control drainage pollution, A. Dinar, et al; Florida's experience with managing nonpoint source phosphorus runoff into Lake Okeechobee, W.G. Bogges, et al; subsidizing agricultural nonpoint source pollution control - targetting cost sharing & technical assistance, E. Lichtenberg, et al; reforming nonpoint pollution policy, J.F. Shogren.

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