Water Quality Trading
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Water Quality Trading
USDA. NAL. Water Quality Information Center.
A bibliography of 77 citations from the NAL catalog (AGRICOLA) covering 1981-2002.
USDA. NAL. Water Quality Information Center.
A guide to literature on the data and modeling requirements for environmental credit trading; 105 citations from a number of topical indexes. A dynamic version searches the NAL catalog (AGRICOLA) for the most recent article and book citations.
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."
EPA; USDA
Promotes "a long term working relationship between the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Office of Water on collaboration efforts to establish viable water quality credit trading markets."
EPA. Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds.
Provides an "analytical framework to assess the conditions and water quality problems in any specific watershed and determine whether water quality trading could be effectively used." A factsheet about the handbook is also available.
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."
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.
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.
National Association of Conservation Districts.
"Offers insights on market-based engagement opportunities for conservation districts, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) field staff and other interested conservation practitioners..Market-based strategies for water quality offer great potential to help improve water quality in both urban and rural settings."
Summary of U.S. Effluent Trading and Offset Projects (PDF | 235KB)
EPA. Office of Water.
"Summarizes 37 effluent trading and offset activities that occurred around the country" from the 1980s into the 1990s.
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.
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."
World Resources Institute.
"A suite of web-based tools used to facilitate market-based approaches to improving water quality."
WRI
"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."
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.
Gives an overview of Connecticut's efforts to implement its nitrogen credit exchange strategy.
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."
Water Quality Pollutant Trading in Idaho: A Step-by-Step Agricultural Community Guide
Idaho Department of Environmental Quality.
"Provides detailed guidance on how to execute a water quality trade for agricultural operators in a watershed with an established market."