Water pollution control has been a top environmental policy priority of the world’s most developed countries for decades, and the focus of significant regulation and public and private spending. Yet, significant water quality problems remain, and trends for some pollutants are in the wrong...

type="main" xml:id="ajar12049-abs-0001" <p>We examine environmental auctions on working agricultural lands. We organized a discriminatory auction where farmers were asked to make bids on spreading gypsum on their fields to reduce phosphorus loads to surface waters. The parcel-specific bids were...</p>

1. Introduction -- 2. Co-Evolution of Agriculture and the Environment from the Beginning to the Present -- 3. Agricultural Land Use, Production, and Water Quality -- 4. Decision Making at the Farm Level -- 5. Environmental Policy Instruments for Agriculture -- 6. Water Quality Trading -- 7....