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Market-Based Solutions to Environmental Problems: Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Richard T. Woodward
Richard T. Woodward*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
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Abstract

There is rapidly growing interest in the use of market-based (MB) instruments in environmental policy. The papers in this session discuss three relatively new areas for such policies: groundwater contamination, nonpoint source surface-water pollution and carbon sequestration. The papers point out the potential for MB policies in these areas, but significant challenges remain. This comment highlights challenges related to five issues: monitoring and enforcement, trading ratios, baselines, transaction costs, and risk and uncertainty. All these issues must be addressed before MB policies can take the full step from economic theory to regulatory reality.

Keywords

global warmingcarbon sequestrationgroundwater contaminationnonpoint pollutioneffluent tradingtradable emissions permitsQ2Q28Q25
Type
Invited Paper Sessions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , August 2000 , pp. 259 - 266
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2000

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