This study investigates the implications of treating different environmental benefits as the primary target of policy design. We focus on two scenarios, estimating for both of them in-stream sediment, nutrient loadings, and carbon sequestration. In the first, we assess the impact of a program...

In this paper, we discuss the importance of developing integrated assessment models to support the design and implementation of policies to address water quality problems associated with agricultural pollution. We describe a new modeling system, LUMINATE, which links land use decisions made at...

This paper estimates the costs of implementing a broad ranging set of conservation practices on Iowa's landscape. A water quality model is combined with economic cost estimates to predict the improved water quality and costs associated with this set of conservation practices identified

This paper is the third component in a four part series that together describe an integrated modeling framework that has been constructed for the Upper Mississippi River Basin.

 

In 2008, the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico, measuring 20720 km2, was one of the two largest reported since measurement of the zone began in 1985. The extent of the hypoxic zone is related to nitrogen and phosphorous loadings originating on agricultural fields in the upper Midwest. This...

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