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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Water Quality Trading"”.
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Assessing environmental equivalents for water quality trading
Water quality trading (WQT) is a market-based approach to improve water quality. It is an innovative, voluntary program that connects point source (PS) dischargers who need to reduce their pollutant loads with land managers who could offset those loads with nonpoint source (NPS) reductions to …
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Water quality trading: credit stacking and ancillary benefits
… Wetlands, for example, can help mitigate water pollution from point sources as well as non-point sources, serve as habitat for wildlife, sequester carbon and serve as a place for recreation. Studies have found that these services can have substantial value to society. The sale of ecosystem …
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Incorporating Agroforestry Into Water Quality Trading: Evaluating Economic-Environmental Tradeoffs
… has developed several market and incentive-based water quality credit trading programs to meet federal water quality objectives. In theory, these programs offer a mechanism to achieve environmental goals at least cost. However, in practice these programs face ongoing challenges arising from …
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Analyzing Cost Implications of Water Quality Trading Provisions: Lessons from the Virginia Nutrient Credit Exchange Act
… estimate the cost implications of point source trading provisions of the Act. An integer programming cost minimization model was constructed to estimate the cost of achieving four point source trading policy scenarios. The model estimated the annual cost of meeting two different nutrient cap …
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Projecting agroforestry adoption and agroforestry water quality trading in the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, USA
… nutrient pollution is the leading cause of water quality impairment in the Chesapeake Bay. Agroforestry, the integration of trees with crops or livestock production, or both, achieves production and conservation objectives on a single plot of land. Agroforestry is recognized by the …
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Understanding the role of trading in water quality management : based on U.S. experience
… demonstrates an overview of the performance of water quality trading programs currently implemented within the U.S. The role of trading in water quality management is identified through systematical comparisons of all possible aspects related to trading process, structure, and scale of existing …
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Trading pollution for water quality : assessing the effects of market-based instruments in three basins
… of pollution reduction under the federal Clean Water Act has resulted from technology-based limits imposed on point source dischargers. However, most U.S. water bodies are unmonitored and of those that are, between 40 and 50 percent remain impaired. Given this limited progress, the U.S. …
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Addressing agricultural salinity in the American West : harnessing behavioral diversity to institutional design
… Basin (LAB) of Colorado threatens environmental quality, the agricultural economy and the potential for efficient reuse of water. Salinity is a threat to "hydraulic sustainability", since it will affect societal and environmental sustainability in a system heavily dependent on engineered …
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Essays on Water Quality Management for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Water quality management for agricultural production is a complicated and interesting problem. Hydrological and economic factors must be considered when designing strategies to reduce nutrient runoff from agricultural activities. This dissertation is composed of three chapters that investigate …
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Two analyses of costs of agricultural NPS pollution: Transactions costs of expanding nutrient trading to agricultural working lands and Impacts of TCs and differential BMP adoption rates on the cost of reducing agricultural NPS pollution in Virginia
… engaged in a collective effort to improve the water quality and living resources in the Chesapeake Bay (CB), focusing particularly on reducing delivered nitrogen and phosphorus loads. However, achievement of water quality objectives remains elusive. In Virginia, agriculture represents the …
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Sustainability analysis of distributed, green stormwater infrastructure
… in population and density of development, stormwater management has become a higher priority for municipal leaders, civil engineers, and residents. Traditional gray infrastructure, i.e., large, piped conveyance networks, effectively removed stormwater runoff and all its associated problems …
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Multipurpose Approaches to Regional Goals: Chapters in Environmental and Development Economics
… obligations. To address declining Chesapeake Bay water quality, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set extensive nutrient and sediment reduction goals under the 2010 Chesapeake Bay TMDL. Virginia has responded by passing along explicit nutrient and sediment reduction …
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Three essays on water quality policy and valuation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms