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Title Environmental policies for agricultural pollution control / edited by J.S. Shortle and D.G. Abler
Published Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York : CABI Pub., ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 224 pages) : illustrations
Contents Agriculture and water quality: the issues / J.S. Shortle, D.G. Abler and M. Ribaudo -- Environmental instruments for agriculture / R.D. Horan and J.S. Shortle -- Voluntary and indirect approaches for reducing externalities and satisfying multiple objectives / R.D. Horan, M. Ribaudo and D.G. Abler -- Estimating benefits and costs of pollution control policies / M. Ribaudo and J.S. Shortle -- Non-point source pollution control policy in the USA / M. Ribaudo -- Policy on agricultural pollution in the European Union / N. Hanley -- Decomposing the effects of trade on the environment / D.G. Abler and J.S. Shortle
Summary This book provides a review and guide to environmental policy options for the control of agricultural pollution (particularly water pollution) and the economic, administrative and political merits of such policies. The principal focus is on the developed world, particularly North America and Europe. The book covers: the issues concerning agriculture and water quality; the voluntary and indirect approaches for reducing externalities and satisfying multiple objectives; the estimation of the benefits and costs of pollution control policies; the pollution control policies in the USA and EU; and the decomposition of the effects of trade on the environment. The book contains 7 chapters and a subject index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-211) and index
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Subject Agricultural pollution -- Government policy
Water -- Pollution -- Government policy
Environmental policy -- Economic aspects
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
Agricultural trade.
Cost benefit analysis.
Environmental impact.
Environmental policy.
Externalities.
International trade.
Pollution control.
Water pollution.
Water quality.
Agricultural pollution -- Government policy.
Environmental policy -- Economic aspects.
Water -- Pollution -- Government policy.
Form Electronic book
Author Shortle, J. S. (James S.)
Abler, David Gerrard, 1960-
LC no. 2001020355
ISBN 0851997791
9780851997797
1280811714
9781280811715