Publications
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Improving Water Quality (1 of 3)
A Review of the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI) To Target U.S. Farm Conservation Funds
by and -Historically, federal conservation programs have focused on solving environmental and natural resource problems on individual farms.
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How Baywide Nutrient Trading Could Benefit Pennsylvania Farms
by , , , and -Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States, is a vital economic, cultural, and ecological resource for both the region and the nation. But the water quality and the overall ecology of the bay have been harmed by excess runoff and discharges of nutrients, particularly nitrogen and
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How Baywide Nutrient Trading Could Benefit Maryland Farms
by , , , and -The largest estuary in the United States, the Chesapeake Bay is a vital economic, cultural, and ecological resource for the region and the nation. Excess runoff and discharges of nutrients—particularly nitrogen and phosphorus—from farms, pavement, wastewater treatment plants
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Eutrophication: Policies, Action, and Strategies to Address Nutrient Pollution
by and -Nutrient overenrichment of freshwater and coastal ecosystems—or eutrophication—is a rapidly growing environmental crisis. Worldwide, the number of coastal areas impacted by eutrophication stands at over 500.
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Eutrophication: Sources and Drivers of Nutrient Pollution
by and -Nutrient over-enrichment of freshwater and coastal ecosystems, or eutrophication, is a rapidly growing environmental crisis. Worldwide, the number of coastal areas impacted by eutrophication stands at over 500. In coastal areas, occurrences of dead zones, which are
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Paying for Environmental Performance: Potential Cost Savings Using a Reverse Auction in Program Signup
by , , and -A reverse auction in the Conestoga watershed in Pennsylvania demonstrated that auctions are a more cost-effective way to allocate conservation funding than the traditional funding allocation process used in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
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Eutrophication and Hypoxia in Coastal Areas
A Global Assessment of the State of Knowledge
by , , and -Eutrophication -- the overenrichment of waters by nutrients -- threatens and degrades many coastal ecosystems around the world.
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Paying for Environmental Performance: Estimating the Environmental Outcomes of Agricultural Best Management Practices
by and -This Policy Note outlines how the environmental performance of agricultural BMPs can be estimated, and what steps are necessary for improving these estimations--both important elements for effectively allocating conservation funding. This Policy Note sets forth the following recommendations:
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Paying For Environmental Performance: Using Reverse Auctions to Allocate Funding For Conservation
by , , and -Can reverse auctions be used to achieve cost-effective improvements in environmental quality?
