Environmental policies for agricultural pollution control /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2001.
• Subjects: Agricultural pollution > Government policy.; Water > Pollution > Government policy.; Environmental policy > Economic aspects.; Agricultural Economics.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; International Trade.; Water Resources.; Pollution and Degradation.; Agricultural trade.; Cost benefit analysis.; Environmental impact.; Environmental policy.; Externalities.; International trade.; Pollution control.; Water pollution.; Water quality.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 224 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-211) and index.
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This book provides a review and guide to environmental policy options for the control of agricultural pollution (particularly water pollution) and the economic, administrative and political merits of such policies. The principal focus is on the developed world, particularly North America and Europe. The book covers: the issues concerning agriculture and water quality; the voluntary and indirect approaches for reducing externalities and satisfying multiple objectives; the estimation of the benefits and costs of pollution control policies; the pollution control policies in the USA and EU; and the decomposition of the effects of trade on the environment. The book contains 7 chapters and a subject index.