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Alternative pollution control strategies: Equity, efficiency and information requirements
Abstract Although the practice of environmental responsibility will affect aggregate economic growth (as measured by GNP), the burden of this policy at the national level will be modest. On the other hand, the distribution of this responsibility will certainly not impose equal hardship on all waste dischargers. At the present time, however, little substantive information is available on the distributional aspects of environmental controls. This paper examines intraregional assignments of waste treatment responsibility within a natural region--a river basin. Alternative management programs and corresponding effluent taxes are considered. Each program is developed within the general framework of a water quality management model and is designed to minimize the total regional cost of waste treatment subject to program constraints (information availability) and water qualify standards. An assessment of the relative efficiency and equity of these programs is made within a water quality management simulation of the Patuxent River in Maryland.
Alternative pollution control strategies: Equity, efficiency and information requirements
Abstract Although the practice of environmental responsibility will affect aggregate economic growth (as measured by GNP), the burden of this policy at the national level will be modest. On the other hand, the distribution of this responsibility will certainly not impose equal hardship on all waste dischargers. At the present time, however, little substantive information is available on the distributional aspects of environmental controls. This paper examines intraregional assignments of waste treatment responsibility within a natural region--a river basin. Alternative management programs and corresponding effluent taxes are considered. Each program is developed within the general framework of a water quality management model and is designed to minimize the total regional cost of waste treatment subject to program constraints (information availability) and water qualify standards. An assessment of the relative efficiency and equity of these programs is made within a water quality management simulation of the Patuxent River in Maryland.
Alternative pollution control strategies: Equity, efficiency and information requirements
Herzog, Henry W. (author)
1977
Article (Journal)
English
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