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 Michelle Perez and Sara Walker - January 2014Historically, 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 John Talberth, Cy Jones, Michelle Perez, Mindy Selman and Evan Branosky - August 2010Chesapeake 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 John Talberth, Cy Jones, Michelle Perez, Mindy Selman and Evan Branosky - June 2010The 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 Mindy Selman and Suzie Greenhalgh - September 2009Nutrient 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 Mindy Selman and Suzie Greenhalgh - June 2009Nutrient 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 Mindy Selman, Jenny Guiling, Suzie Greenhaigh and Michael Taylor - July 2008A 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 Mindy Selman, Zachary Sugg, Suzie Greenhalgh and Robert Diaz - March 2008Eutrophication -- 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 Jenny Guiling and Jonathan St. John - May 2007This 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 Mindy Selman, Jenny Guiling, Jonathan St. John and Suzie Greenhalgh - January 2007Can reverse auctions be used to achieve cost-effective improvements in environmental quality?