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World Hypoxic and Eutrophic Coastal Areas

January 23, 2008

This map identifies 415 eutrophic and hypoxic coastal systems worldwide. Of these, 169 are documented hypoxic areas, 233 are areas of concern and 13 are systems in recovery.

Choking Coastal Waters

By Mindy Selman on January 4, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

My team at WRI, together with Dr. Bob Diaz at the Virginia Marine Institute, has identified and mapped 415 eutrophic and hypoxic coastal systems worldwide through an extensive literature review. Of these, 169 are documented hypoxic areas, 233 are areas of concern and 13 are systems in recovery.

Paying for Environmental Performance: Estimating the Environmental Outcomes of Agricultural Best Management Practices

May, 2007

How can the estimation of environmental outcomes be used to effectively allocate conservation funding, and what additional steps are needed to improve this process?

Paying For Environmental Performance: Using Reverse Auctions to Allocate Funding For Conservation

January, 2007

Explains how reverse auctions can be used as a cost-effective method for allocating funding in US Farm Bill Conservation Programs.

Watershed Analysis for the Mesoamerican Reef

Lauretta Burke, Zachary Sugg, with contributions from: Will Heyman, Shin Kobara, Laurent Cherubin, Christopher Kuchinke, Claire Paris, Johnathan Kool

December, 2006

This analysis quantifies and maps the origins of sediment and nutrient runoff that threatens the Mesoamerican Reef. With it, WRI seeks to inform land-use planning, agriculture, conservation and threat mitigation efforts.

Conservation Best Management Practices, Cost-share and Water Quality Trading Programs

Suzie Greenhalgh, Mindy Selman, and Michael Taylor

July, 2006

Outlines economic and “fairness” reasons why supporting the sale of the cost-share portion of agricultural nutrient and sediment reductions is not the most appropriate policy for the USDA and other government agencies to adopt.

Awakening the Dead Zone: An investment for agriculture, water quality, and climate change

Suzie Greenhalgh and Amanda Sauer

February, 2003

Compares a number of policy options to reduce nutrient loss in the Mississippi River Basin from agricultural sources, provide new income sources for farmers, and help address hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

Fertile ground: Nutrient trading's potential to cost-effectively improve water quality

Paul Faeth

May, 2000

Explores the cost-effectiveness and environmental performance of various strategies to reduce phosphorus loads in nutrient-impaired waterways.

Growing Green: Enhancing Environmental and Economic Performance in U.S. Agriculture

Paul Faeth

April, 1995

A comprehensive, empirically based analysis of U.S. agricultural sustainability. Uses agronomic and environmental data collected from 45 physical U.S. regions. A tool to assess the environmental and economic impacts of a broad range of policy options.

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