Water Quality and Agriculture

Economics and Policy for Nonpoint Source Water Pollution

James Shortle, Markku Ollikainen, Antti Iho (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

XXIV, 396 Seiten

2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-47086-9 (ISBN)

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Water pollution control has been a top environmental policy priority of the world's most developed countries for decades, and the focus of significant regulation and public and private spending. Yet, significant water quality problems remain, and trends for some pollutants are in the wrong direction. This book addresses the economics of water pollution control and water pollution control policy in agriculture, with an aim towards providing students, environmental policy analysts, and other environmental professionals with economic concepts and tools essential to understanding the problem and crafting solutions that can be effective and efficient. The book will also examine existing policies and proposed reforms in the developed world. Although this book addresses and has a general applicability to major water pollutants from agriculture (e.g., pesticides, pharmaceuticals, sediments, nutrients), it will focus on the sediment and nutrient pollution problem. The economic and scientific foundations for pollution management are best developed for these pollutants, and they are currently the top priorities of policy makers. Accordingly, the authors provide both highly salient and informative cases for developing concepts and methods of general applicability, with high profile examples such as the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Erie, and the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone in the US; the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe; and Lake Taupo in New Zealand.

James Shortle is Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Markku Ollikainen is Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Antti Iho is Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Institute, Finland.

1. Introduction.- 2. Co-Evolution of Agriculture and the Environment from the Beginning to the Present.- 3. Agricultural Land Use, Production, and Water Quality.- 4. Decision Making at the Farm Level.- 5. Environmental Policy Instruments for Agriculture.- 6. Water Quality Trading.- 7. Conservation Auctions.- 8. Ecological Compensations and Offset Credits.- 9. The Way Forward.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
Zusatzinfo	XXIV, 396 p. 31 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	638 g
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
Schlagworte	Agriculture • conservation auctions • ecological compensations • Environmental Policy • EU Water Framework Directive • pollution • Public Policy • Water Policy • Water pollution • water quality • water quality trading
ISBN-10	3-030-47086-5 / 3030470865
ISBN-13	978-3-030-47086-9 / 9783030470869
Zustand	Neuware