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Market-Based Incentives: Taking Conservation to the Next Level
USDA. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
"Remarks by Bruce I. Knight, Chief Natural Resources Conservation Service, at the Fourth Henry A. Wallace Scientific Conference, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza in Turrialba, Costa Rica on Nov 3, 2005." |
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Final Water Quality Trading Policy
EPA.
Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds.
"Market-based approaches
such as water quality trading provide greater flexibility
and have potential to achieve water quality and environmental
benefits." |
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Public
Interest Comment on the Environmental Protection
Agency's Proposed
Water Quality Trading Policy (PDF | 308 KB)
Mercatus Center. Regulatory Studies Program.
Describes the value of market incentives in water quality
trading and analyzes a proposed
version of EPA's
Water Quality Trading Policy and its expected impacts
on society. |
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Economics of Water Quality Protection from Nonpoint Sources: Theory and Practice
USDA. Economic Research Service.
"Outlines the economic characteristics of five
instruments that can be used to reduce agricultural
nonpoint source pollution" including economic incentive-based
instruments like water quality trading. |
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Introduction to Water Quality Trading
National Association of Conservation Districts.
"A water quality trading system can be developed
on a local or watershed basis where regulated sources
of pollution are permitted to achieve a mandated higher
level of pollution control by buying water quality credits
from other entities." From the Report
of the NACD Conservation
Innovations Task Force. |
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 Summary of U.S. Effluent Trading and Offset Projects (PDF | 235 KB)
EPA.
Office of Water.
"Summarizes 37 effluent trading and offset activities
that occurred around the country" from the 1980s
into the 1990s.
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NutrientNet
World Resources Institute.
"Provides a simple way for water quality credit buyers
and sellers to connect, by making it relatively easy for
both
point
sources
and nonpoint sources to estimate their remediation costs
using standard, consistent methods, and by making the
record of trade readily accessible." |
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Ecosystem Marketplace Library
Katoomba Group.
Search for links to reports, case studies, reports, white papers, articles, and books on water quality trading and on related ecosystem services topics. |
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AgEcon Search
University of Minnesota. Magrath Library and Department of Applied Economics.
Search for articles on environmental credit trading in
this full text collection of scholarly
research including
working
papers, conference papers, and journal articles. For example,
find "Nitrogen Sources and Gulf Hypoxia: Potential for
Point-Nonpoint Trading." |
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Fertile
Ground: Nutrient Trading's Potential to Cost-Effectively
Improve Water Quality (PDF | 291 KB)
World Resources Institute.
"Using case studies in three states, WRI develops
a framework to assess the cost-effectiveness
of various policies and combinations of policies
to reduce phosphorus loads in specific
watersheds." |
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2004 Nitrogen
Credit Exchange Program Annual Report (PDF | 436 KB)
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.
Gives an overview of Connecticut's efforts to implement its nitrogen credit exchange strategy. |
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Tar-Pamlico Nutrient Strategy
North Carolina Department of Water Quality.
"Outlines the evolution of the strategy including its first phase
from 1990 through 1994 which produced an innovative
point source/nonpoint source trading program that allows
point sources to achieve reductions in nutrient loading
in more cost-effective ways. Its second and third phases
provide improvements." |
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