Policy objectives and economic incentives for controlling agricultural sources of nonpoint pollution

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1023-1035

  Horan, Richard D ^a   Ribaudo, Marc O ^a  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Compliance measures; Economics; Incentives; Nonpoint source pollution; Point nonpoint trading; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECONOMICS; LAND USE; PUBLIC POLICY; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; RUNOFF; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL SOURCES; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NONPOINT TRADING;

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

AGRICULTURE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL;

EID: 0033213213     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1999.tb04191.x     Document Type: Article

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