We exploit the public good attributes of Ganges water pollution cleanup and theoretically analyze an aggregate economy … pollution cleanup in these two cities ought to be provided in a centralized or in a decentralized manner. We first determine the … compute the optimal amount of water pollution cleanup in the two cities in a decentralized regime in which spending on cleanup …

have risen over the past 10 years. Because point sources of pollution were controlled first, agricultural nonpoint sources … protecting or improving rural water quality from agricultural sources of pollution. Two case studies show how these valuation … water pollution …

In river systems, costly upstream pollution abatement creates downstream welfare gains. Absent adequate agreement on … how to share the gains, upstream regions lack incentives to reduce pollution levels. We develop a model that makes … explicit the impact of water quality on production benefits and suggest a solution for sharing the gains of optimal pollution …

Most studies of water quality trading (WQT) analyze the cost effectiveness of reducing nutrient pollution in isolation … from other policies. However, the policy landscape to reduce nutrient pollution from agriculture is dominated by existing …

Although the U.S. spends billions of dollars a year controlling water pollution, there is little empirical evidence of … comparable benefits. This study argues that measurement error in pollution data causes benefits to be underestimated. Using … nutrient pollution. Instrumental variable estimates of the effects of phosphorus on recreational use are an order of magnitude …