A Carrot-and-Stick Approach to Environmental Improvement: Marrying Agri-Environmental Payments and Water Quality Regulations

• Published in: Agricultural and resource economics review Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 91 - 104
• Main Authors: Johansson, Robert C., Kaplan, Jonathan D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, US Cambridge University Press 01.04.2004
• Subjects: Agricultural production; Carrots; Contributed Papers; Daucus; Environmental quality; Fertilizers; Livestock; Manures; Nitrogen; Nutrients; Pathogens; Pesticides; Pollutants; Poultry; Prices; Regions; Regulation; Simulation; Surface water; Water quality; USA; agricultural sector simulation; water quality; agri-environmental programs; manure nutrients

Agri-environmental programs, such as the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, provide payments to livestock and crop producers to generate broadly defined environmental benefits and to help them comply with federal water quality regulations, such as those that require manure nutrients generated...