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Negative Pollution Taxes for Controlling Wind Erosion
Author(s) -
Bunn Julie A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
applied economic perspectives and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.4
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2040-5804
pISSN - 2040-5790
DOI - 10.2307/1349881
Subject(s) - pollution , perspective (graphical) , natural resource economics , economics , politics , environmental tax , nonpoint source pollution , control (management) , point (geometry) , state (computer science) , public economics , environmental science , tax reform , political science , computer science , mathematics , law , management , artificial intelligence , biology , ecology , geometry , algorithm
This article explores the use of a negative pollution tax to control erosion in semiarid agriculture. This tax operates on the setting of either one or two threshold levels. With two threshold levels, T‐max identifies the maximum acceptable limit of pollution and T‐min identifies the desirable or target level. Above T‐max, fines or penalties are imposed; below T‐min, the farm, county, or state is paid for their superior achievement. Although from a theoretical perspective the negative pollution tax has several attractive features, from an operational and political point of view many obstacles to its implementation must be surmounted.