Environmental Policies For Agricultural Pollution Control

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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.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : J. S. Shortle
Publisher : CABI
Release : 2001-09-05
File : 240 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0851997791


Water And Agriculture Sustainability Markets And Policies

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Explores how both governments and the private sector can expand the role of markets to allocate water used by all sectors and to get agricultural producers to account for the pollution that their sector generates.

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Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Release : 2006-10-23
File : 484 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789264022577


The Economics Of Water Quality

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This volume brings together a number of prominent economic studies all of which deal with key water quality issues. The studies focus on the economic aspects of water quality including identifying the polluters' actions and incentives, designing and comparing control mechanisms, analyzing the costs and benefits of water quality programmes, and finally managing transboundary water quality. They all make recommendations for improving water quality through changing incentives, programmes and/or policies.

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Genre : Nature
Author : Naomi Zeitouni
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2019-10-22
File : 620 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351890939


Integrating Sustainable Agriculture Ecology And Environmental Policy

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Find an interdiscliplinary view of sustainable agriculture that emphasizes the potential contributions of ecology to agricultural sustainability in this groundbreaking book. Integrating Sustainable Agriculture, Ecology, and Environmental Policy explores how ecological knowledge, applied as part of a multidisciplinary effort, can be used to design a sustainable and environmentally sound agriculture. A more ecologically based agriculture can increase production efficiency and decrease environmental impacts, but hard choices regarding population control, energy conservation, and land use must still be made. This interdisciplinary approach ensures that the results are beneficial to all components, for example, an ecologically based management scheme which bankrupts the farmer is not considered a viable option for sustainable agriculture. These thought-provoking chapters are an excellent introduction to the contributions of ecological principles to an environmentally sound sustainable agriculture. This multidisciplinary examination provides readers interested in agriculture with a valuable introduction to related work in other fields including ecology and economics. Agronomists, ecologists, educators, and policymakers will find essential information on diverse topics including: the definition and measurement of ecological sustainability in agriculture landscape ecology and the design of sustainable agricultural landscapes soil ecology as a foundation for sustainable agriculture Federal agricultural policies as incentives or deterrent to sustainable agriculture applying farming systems research and extension to sustainable agriculture population growth and other threats to sustainable agriculture environmental policies and their effects on sustainable agriculture the role of precollege education in developing sustainable agriculture

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Genre : Science
Author : Richard Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2018-05-02
File : 165 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351437806


Agricultural Pollution

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This comprehensive text provides a concise overview of environmental problems caused by agriculture, (such as pesticide pollution and increased nitrate levels) and offers practical solutions to them. It is well illustrated and contains a fully-referenced introduction to the main contemporary agricultural pollution issues in the UK. It will help provide clear, scientific and technical understanding of the most important sources of agricultural pollution.

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Genre : Science
Author : Graham Merrington
Publisher : CRC Press
Release : 2002-08-22
File : 272 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0415273404


Data And Modeling For Environmental Credit Trading

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Genre : Agricultural conservation
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Release : 2004
File : 68 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000055799027


Biological Environmental Science

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Biological Environmental Science is an introductory textbook for undergraduate students who desire a one semester course or, alternatively, a springboard course for advanced environmental offerings. This book features timely issues such as global warming, air, ground and water pollutions, population growth, species extinction and environmental poli

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Genre : Science
Author : William V Dashek
Publisher : CRC Press
Release : 2019-04-29
File : 333 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780429526640


Overcoming Agricultural Pollution Of Water

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World Bank Technical Paper No. 269. Water problems are emerging as the most compelling set of issues facing agricultural production in the 1990s. To address the policy challenges posed by this dilemma, this study focuses on the experience of the Eu

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Genre : Technology & Engineering
Author : Susanne M. Scheierling
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Release : 1995
File : 104 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0821331183


Water Quality Management

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The global attention in recent years has focused primarily on water quantity and allocation issues. Water quality has received significantly less attention than water quantity. Commendable progress has been made by the developed world to control point sources of pollution, but commensurate progress in reducing non-point sources has not been made. In the third world countries both point and non-point sources of pollution are becoming increasingly a serious concern. Already, nearly all water bodies in such countries near and around urban centres have been severely polluted, with very high health and environmental costs. The book assesses the current status of water quality management in both developed and developing worlds, as well as analysing the effectiveness of economic instruments and legal and institutional frameworks to control water contamination. It outlines the importance of building up social and political awareness to reverse the trend of continuing water quality deterioration, which is likely to be a most challenging task in the coming years. This book was published as a special issue of International Journal of Water Resources Development.

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Genre : Nature
Author : Asit Biswas
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2014-06-03
File : 288 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317978954


Sustainable Agriculture

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Christine Jakobsson
Publisher : Baltic University Press
Release : 2012
File : 508 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789186189105