Non-point-source (NPS) pollution refers to a form of pollution in which neither the source nor
the size of specific emissions can be observed or identified with sufficient accuracy. In NPS …

Policy makers around the world seem to have widely endorsed the use of voluntary
approaches as a means to address concerns about environmental protection and resource …

Insights from behavioral and experimental economics research can inform the design of
evidence-based, cost-effective agri-environmental programs that mitigate environmental …

Collective payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs make payments to groups,
conditional on specified aggregate land-management outcomes. Such collective contracting …

Tip** points can occur in many complex environmental systems and often produce abrupt
and irreversible change. Thresholds associated with tip** points are difficult to predict in …

Agricultural and applied economists have begun routinely using behavioral and
experimental economics tools to answer important questions about agri-environmental …

Group incentives can and have been used to address a range of environmental and
resource problems. These schemes base individual penalties and/or rewards on the …

Environmental and natural resource (ENR) policies that focus on group outcomes are
common but have received relatively less attention from economists than policies based on …

This study evaluates the tradeoff between agricultural production and water quality at both
the watershed scale and the farm scale, using an integrated economic-biophysical hybrid …

This article presents experimental tests of a linear and a nonlinear ambient tax mechanism
that involve modest information requirements for the regulator. When agents are not allowed …