Title : 
Agri-Environmetal Instruments for Nonpoint Pollution: Theory and Practice
         
        
            Author : 
Zhao Liange ; Cai Shukai
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of Econ., Zhejiang Gongshang Univ., Hangzhou, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this article, the author talk about the impacts of the Agricultural non-point pollution on water quality and health, and outline the economic characteristics of five instruments that can be used to reduce agricultural nonpoint source pollution (economic incentives, standards, education, liability, and research) and discusses empirical research related to the use of these instruments.
         
        
            Keywords : 
agricultural pollution; education; environmental economics; research and development; water pollution; water quality; agri-environmetal instruments; agricultural nonpoint source pollution; economic characteristics; economic incentives; health; water quality; Agriculture; Costs; Environmental economics; Instruments; Lakes; Nitrogen; Rivers; Sediments; Water pollution; Water resources;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Chengdu
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-4712-1
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
2151-7614
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5518255