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The Economics of Nonpoint Pollution Control
Author(s) -
Shortle James S.,
Horan Richard D.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of economic surveys
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.657
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1467-6419
pISSN - 0950-0804
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6419.00140
Subject(s) - nonpoint source pollution , incentive , control (management) , pollution , economics , public economics , natural resource economics , environmental planning , environmental economics , environmental science , microeconomics , ecology , management , biology
A timely literature on the design of economic incentives for nonpoint pollution control has been emerging. We describe the nonpoint pollution control problem, some of the peculiar challenges it poses for policy design, and the policy‐related contributions of the theoretical and empirical literature on the economics of nonpoint pollution.