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标题：Tradeoffs among Ecosystem Services, Performance Certainty, and Cost-efficiency in Implementation of the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load
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作者：Wainger, Lisa A. ; Van Houtven, George ; Loomis, Ross 等
期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness
印刷版ISSN：0738-8950
出版年度：2013
页码：196-224
出版社：Journal of Agribusiness
摘要：The cost-effectiveness of total maximum daily load (TMDL) programs depends heavily on program design. We develop an optimization framework to evaluate design choices for the TMDL for the Potomac River, a Chesapeake Bay subbasin. Scenario results suggest that policies inhibiting nutrient trading or offsets between point and nonpoint sources increase compliance costs markedly and reduce ecosystem service co-benefits relative to a least-cost solution. Key decision tradeoffs highlighted by the analysis include whether agricultural production should be exchanged for low-cost pollution abatement and other environmental benefits and whether lower compliance costs and higher co-benefits provide adequate compensation for lower certainty of water-quality outcomes.
关键词：Chesapeake Bay;cost-effectiveness;ecosystem services;environmental policy;optimization model;pollution control;TMDL;water quality trading