Author: David LetsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural pollution
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Point-nonpoint Source Trading for Managing Agricultural Pollutant Loadings
Author: David LetsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural pollution
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309172683
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
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.
Nonpoint-source Pollution Issues
Author: Joe MakuchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nonpoint source pollution
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Data and Modeling for Environmental Credit Trading
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Agriculture Economics Reports
Author: Environmental Policies for Agricultural Pollution Control
Author: J. S. ShortlePublisher: CABI
ISBN: 9780851997797
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book describes the environmental problems associated with agriculture, particularly the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers and the disposal of animal waste. These have become major policy issues in many countries, with the main polluting effect being on water quality. As with other types of pollution, significant reductions in agriculture's contribution to water pollution requires the application of either enforceable regulatory approaches or changes in the economic environment, so that farmers adopt environmentally-friendly production practices. Providing a review and guide to the policy options and their economic administrative and political merits, the reader can develop an understanding of these options and their merits in the emerging policy context. The principal focus is on the developed world, particularly North America and Europe. The book is aimed at advanced students, researchers and professionals in agricultural economics and policy, and environmental and pollution sciences.
Water Quality Management in the Americas
Author: Asit K. BiswasPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540304444
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This study presents for the first time an independent and authoritative analysis of water quality management in North and South America, and discusses the practices and future implications of the impacts of the current practices in the different countries of the hemisphere. Includes in-depth case studies analyzing water quality management practices at country and state levels, especially in terms of their effectiveness and overall impact.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Theory, Modeling and Experience in the Management of Nonpoint-Source Pollution
Author: Clifford S. RussellPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146153156X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Nonpoint-source pollution (NPSP) poses a special challenge to society's ability to manage its collective environmental good - especially surface and groundwater quality. Since there is no `point', such as an outfall pipe, from which the pollution is being discharged and can be measured, pollution can reach the ambient environment without being monitored. Since management of air and water polution requires the definition and enforcement of limits on discharges or the imposition of fees on those discharges, inability to measure limits our ability to manage this environmental problem. This book presents a state-of-the-art review and discussion of economists' efforts to resolve this major problem and attempts to provide a way of working around it. The book sets forth the theoretical issues, modeling, and the actual programs set up to confront this issue.