Water Quality and Agriculture: Economics and Policy for Nonpoint Source Water Pollution

1 Introduction

2 Economics and Policy for Water Pollution Control

3 Agricultural Land Use, Production, and Water Quality

4 Decision Making at the Farm Level

5 Environmental Policy Instruments for Agriculture

7 Water Quality Auctions

8 Credit Stacking

9 The Way Forward

James Shortle is Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Markku Ollikainen is Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Helsinki, Finland.