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Market-based approaches and tools for improving water and air quality

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2008

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Lal, Harbans, Delgado, Jorge A., Gross, Christoph M., Hesketh, Eric, McKinney, Shaun P., Cover, Harris, and Shaffer, Marv, 2008, Market-based approaches and tools for improving water and air quality: Environmental Science & Policy, v. 12, no. 7, p. 1028-1039.

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Nitrogen (N) losses from agriculture are negatively impacting groundwater, air, and surface water quality. National, state, and local policies and procedures that can mitigate these problems are needed. Market-based approaches where waste treatment plants (point sources) can purchase nutrient credits from upstream agricultural operations (non-point sources) to meet their National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit requirements within the Clean Water Act are being explored. This paper reviews these market-based approaches for enhancing air and water quality at a lower cost than simple command-and-control regulation, and describes new tools that are being developed, such as Nitrogen Trading Tool (NTT), that can be used to [...]

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DOI http://sciencebase.gov/vocab/identifierScheme http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2009.05.003
ISSN http://sciencebase.gov/vocab/identifierScheme 1462-9011

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