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Using Spatial Information to Reduce Costs of Controlling Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

C.L. Carpentier ,
D.J. Bosch  and
S.S. Batie
C.L. Carpentier
Affiliation:
Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
D.J. Bosch
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
S.S. Batie
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University
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Abstract

Reducing costs of controlling nonpoint source (NPS) pollution will be a high public priority in the next century. Compliance and transaction costs of reducing nitrogen runoff from dairies in the Lower Susquehanna Watershed by 40% are estimated for perfectly targeted and uniform performance standards. The perfectly targeted standard reduces compliance and transaction costs by almost 75% compared with the uniform standard. Future NPS control policies should use spatial information to target policy resources to priority concerns, areas, and farms. Further research is needed to lower the costs and increase the accuracy of spatial information.

Type
Economics and the Environment in the 21st Century
Information
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , April 1998 , pp. 72 - 84
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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