Effect of water quality standards on farm income, risk, and NPS pollution

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 595-608

  Randhir, Timothy O ^a   Lee, John G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Nonpoint source pollution; Pollution modeling; Water policy regulation decision making; Water quality; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SIMULATION MODEL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER STANDARD;

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; NITROGEN; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PUBLIC POLICY; STANDARDS; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHEDS;

FARM INCOME; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY STANDARDS; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; INCOME; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLICY MAKING; POLLUTION CONTROL; STANDARDS; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 0034214257     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2000.tb04290.x     Document Type: Article

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