Regulation of Marine Contamination under Environmental Uncertainty: Shellfish Contamination in California

Lichtenberg, Erik; Zilberman, David

doi:10.1086/mre.4.3.42628995

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“…In relation to this, Lichtenberg & Zilberman (1987) have suggested that the establishment of water pollution control policies should minimise the cost of attaining those environmental quality objectives which have a certain degree of statistical reliability. This requires that the probability of exceeding the quality target does not exceed a pre-specified level.…”

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Controlling Groundwater Pollution from Agricultural Non-point Sources: an Overview of Policy Instruments

Dosi¹,

Zeitouni²

2001

Agricultural Use of Groundwater

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThe aim of this paper is to provide a review of policy instruments aimed at controlling pollution from agricultural diffuse sources, and compare their pros and cons. The review also includes a description of instruments introduced though recent reforms of the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), reforms aimed, inter alia, at integrating environmental protection into policies traditionally designed to achieve other objectives.The major results of this review may be summarised as follows. Firstly, a major barrier to the implementation of effective policy measures is the lack of information about the nature, extent, and social costs of groundwater pollution from agricultural diffuse sources. Secondly, policies aimed at controlling pollution from agricultural sources have usually relied, and still largely rely upon what is often referred to as "voluntarism", but which can probably be better described as a "soft-persuasion-though-subsidisation" approach. Besides being in contrast with the polluter pays ethics dominating other environmental policies, this approach has not brought about a significant and widespread reversal of pollution trends. Finally, there is a need for clearer policy framework specifying the principle for a division of labour between CAP and environmental policy provisions, and between payments and regulation related to positive and negative externalities of agricultural production.

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confidence: 99%