Agricultural & Resource Economics
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Item Maryland Trading Program(2014-12-14) Payne, SusanThis presentation was delivered at the 2014 Policy and Outlook Conference. The presentation covers the development of nutrient trading for agricultural operations in Maryland.Item Agricultural BMPs and Cost-Sharing(2014-12-16) Fleming, Patrick; Newburn, David A.This presentation was delivered at the 2014 Policy and Outlook Conference. The focus is on the impact of cost-sharing and the adoption of BMPs in Maryland.Item The Effects of Water Quality Improvements on a Commercial Fishery: Evidence from the Maryland Blue Crab Fishery(2014) Ball, Sarah; Lipton, Douglas; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Developing and implementing total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) is a costly and controversial process. However, there are many potential benefits, such as improvements to commercial fisheries. A two-stage model is developed to estimate the benefits of the Chesapeake Bay TMDL on the Maryland blue crab fishery. In the first stage, a bio-economic model links water quality to stock and harvest and various hypotheses on this link are tested. In the second stage, a model of fisherman behavior links the effects of changes in water quality on stock and harvest to fisherman behavior, such as fishing, location, and effort decisions. A number of simulations are then run to predict the effects of the TMDL on the Maryland blue crab fishery. The simulations predict that the TMDL is likely to have a small, if not insignificant, effect on the fishery. This result is in part explained by the fact that the current level of water quality in the Chesapeake Bay is suitable for the blue crabs.Item Water Quality Credit Trading(CANRP, 2011-12-16) Parker, DougCan aggressive pollution reduction in one sector compensate for continued pollution in another? Pollution credit markets are designed to make this trade-off work. But is the time ripe for water quality credit trading systems to serve as an effective means of reducing pollution from farmland? Dr. Doug Parker of the University of Maryland is skeptical.Item Best Management Practice Use and Nutrient Management in Maryland: A 2010 Snapshot(2010-01-01) Lichtenberg, Erik; Parker, Doug; Lane, SarahItem Adoption of Household Stormwater Best Management Practices(2014-02) Newburn, David A.; Alberini, Anna; Rockler, Amanda; Karp, Alison