Market Policies for Control of Multiple Pollutants: Management Issues and Methods of Analysis

Transferable discharge permit (TDP) programs for managing multiple pollutants may be complicated by the interactive environmental impacts and by the joint treatment costs of the pollutants. Under such systems, pollutants may be managed as several individual commodities, or grouped together and managed as a weighted sum of the various pollutants. This thesis presents approaches for (1) evaluating the cost efficiency of TDP programs in which permits for several pollutants are traded as individual commodities, (2) estimating the cost effective weighting factors for TDP programs in which pollutants are grouped together, and (3) determining the equilibrium distribution of financial burden among dischargers participating in TDP markets for multiple pollutants. These approaches are demonstrated for a water quality management program that controls BOD, phosphorus, and nitrogen discharges in a river basin.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Environmental Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Lence, Barbara Jean

Contributors dc:contributor

• Brill, E. Downey,
• Eheart, J. Wayland

• Engineering, Sanitary and Municipal
• Environmental Sciences
• Urban and Regional Planning

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8908749

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69986