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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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....

Table of Contents:

• Agriculture and Water Quality : the Issues / J.S. Shortle, D.G. Abler and M. Ribaudo
• Environmental Instruments for Agriculture / R.D. Horan and J.S. Shortle
• Voluntary and Indirect Approaches for Reducing Externalities and Satisfying Multiple Objectives / R.D. Horan, M. Ribaudo and D.G. Abler
• Estimating Benefits and Costs of Pollution Control Policies / M. Ribaudo and J.S. Shortle
• Non-point Source Pollution Control Policy in the USA / M. Ribaudo
• Policy on Agricultural Pollution in the European Union / N. Hanley
• Decomposing the Effects of Trade on the Environment / D.G. Abler and J.S. Shortle.