The Economics of Managing Nonpoint Forestry Sources of Water Pollutants
Title | The Economics of Managing Nonpoint Forestry Sources of Water Pollutants PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph E. Weible |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Annotated Bibliography of the Economic Implications of Managing Nonpoint Forestry Sources of Water Pollutants
Title | Annotated Bibliography of the Economic Implications of Managing Nonpoint Forestry Sources of Water Pollutants PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick D. Miles |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Forests and forestry |
ISBN |
Assessing the Economic Implications of Managing Nonpoint Forestry Sources of Water Pollutants
Title | Assessing the Economic Implications of Managing Nonpoint Forestry Sources of Water Pollutants PDF eBook |
Author | Paul V. Ellefson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Forest management |
ISBN |
Assessing the Economic Implications of Managing Nonpoint Forestry Sources of Water Pollutants
Title | Assessing the Economic Implications of Managing Nonpoint Forestry Sources of Water Pollutants PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick D. Miles |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Economic Implications of Managing Nonpoint Forest Sources of Water Pollutants
Title | Economic Implications of Managing Nonpoint Forest Sources of Water Pollutants PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick D. Miles |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Water Quality and Agriculture
Title | Water Quality and Agriculture PDF eBook |
Author | James Shortle |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2021-06-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3030470873 |
Water pollution control has been a top environmental policy priority of the world’s most developed countries for decades, and the focus of significant regulation and public and private spending. Yet, significant water quality problems remain, and trends for some pollutants are in the wrong direction. This book addresses the economics of water pollution control and water pollution control policy in agriculture, with an aim towards providing students, environmental policy analysts, and other environmental professionals with economic concepts and tools essential to understanding the problem and crafting solutions that can be effective and efficient. The book will also examine existing policies and proposed reforms in the developed world. Although this book addresses and has a general applicability to major water pollutants from agriculture (e.g., pesticides, pharmaceuticals, sediments, nutrients), it will focus on the sediment and nutrient pollution problem. The economic and scientific foundations for pollution management are best developed for these pollutants, and they are currently the top priorities of policy makers. Accordingly, the authors provide both highly salient and informative cases for developing concepts and methods of general applicability, with high profile examples such as the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Erie, and the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone in the US; the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe; and Lake Taupo in New Zealand.
Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply
Title | Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 569 |
Release | 2000-02-17 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0309172683 |
In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply. Shortly thereafter, the NRC began an analysis of the agreement's scientific validity. The resulting book finds New York City's watershed agreement to be a good template for proactive watershed management that, if properly implemented, will maintain high water quality. However, it cautions that the agreement is not a guarantee of permanent filtration avoidance because of changing regulations, uncertainties regarding pollution sources, advances in treatment technologies, and natural variations in watershed conditions. The book recommends that New York City place its highest priority on pathogenic microorganisms in the watershed and direct its resources toward improving methods for detecting pathogens, understanding pathogen transport and fate, and demonstrating that best management practices will remove pathogens. Other recommendations, which are broadly applicable to surface water supplies across the country, target buffer zones, stormwater management, water quality monitoring, and effluent trading.