Designing, testing and implementing a trial dryland salinity credit trade scheme

Connor, Jeffery D.; Ward, John; Clifton, Craig; Proctor, Wendy; MacDonald, Darla Hatton

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.01.020

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“…We focus here on two key arguments related to the potential of PCT to generate behavioural change. Firstly it is suggested that from an economic efficiency point of view, individual energy consumption reduction appears to be achievable more efficiently downstream, as the market mechanisms allow for the equalisation of the marginal abatement costs for the participants and for a higher degree of flexibility in the switch towards less polluting behaviour (Connor et al 2008;Joskow et al 1998). However, PCT schemes are more complex and expensive instruments than taxes, because of the involvement of trading and the necessary transaction costs, and this could potentially reduce behavioural impact and the overall acceptability of such schemes (Bristow et al 2010).…”

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The potential behavioural effect of personal carbon trading: results from an experimental survey

Zanni

Bristow

Wardman

2013

Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy

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The potential behavioural effect of personal carbon trading: results from an experimental survey

Zanni

Bristow

Wardman

2013

Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy

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“…regulatory standards, economic incentives, and suasive mechanisms) on these impediments and determinants of adoption of desired management practices (Horan and Ribaudo 1999;Sterner 2003;Prokopy et al 2008). However, often, little is known about these determinants (Ma et al 2009) or the effectiveness of policy instruments in addressing them (Connor et al 2008b). There is a need to understand key determinants of adoption of water quality management and the careful selection and scheduling of policy instruments (or policy design) for addressing them for the effective mitigation of agricultural non-point source pollution.…”

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Designing a Policy Mix and Sequence for Mitigating Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in a Water Supply Catchment

Bryan

Kandulu

2010

Water Resour Manage

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Agricultural non-point source pollution, common in water supply catchments worldwide, can have significant environmental and human health impacts, and its mitigation poses a challenge for policymakers. We used deliberative multi-criteria evaluation (DMCE) to identify a mix and sequence of policy instruments (or policy design) to address agricultural non-point source pollution using a case study of Cryptosporidium contamination in the Myponga River water supply catchment, South Australia. The major impediments to adoption of on-farm water quality management and benefits for ecosystem services were identified using a landholder survey for use as decision criteria in DMCE. The DMCE approach involved stakeholders in policy design during two community fora held in the catchment. We developed six policy scenarios and quantified their impact on decision criteria. The relative importance of decision criteria was quantified using swing weights and consensus was reached on the preferred policy scenario. The mix, sequence, and targeting of instruments in the preferred policy scenario were refined based on information obtained through the deliberative process. Impediments to adoption included a lack of both information/knowledge and financial resources. The recommended policy scenario involved targeted information, followed by an incentive program, and finally the regulation of a mandatory code of practice for water quality management. Detailed, catchmentspecific context obtained through DMCE was critical for refining an effective mix and sequence of policy instruments. The techniques may be readily used to select and schedule policy instruments for effective mitigation of agricultural non-point source pollution in other drinking water supply catchments elsewhere.

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“…Market-based instruments are increasingly considered as regulatory options for managing public good resource problems such as cumulative impacts of natural resource use (Weber and Adamowicz 2002) and provision of environmental services (Connor et al 2008). Determining which type of MBI and the design principles behind its implementation deserves careful consideration of property rights, risk, flexibility, equity and the evolution of the instrument over time (Whitten and Young 2004), and the institutional setting of the MBI will influence how incentives are perceived and acted upon by traders (see Reeson 2008).…”

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Agent-based modelling of emissions trading for coastal landscapes in transition

Heckbert

2011

Journal of Land Use Science

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Water quality impacts from agriculture and rapid land use change along Australia's coastline pose challenges for maintaining healthy marine ecosystems and community livelihoods. This article presents an agent-based model of an emissions trading scheme to regulate water quality, examining the effect of land use change and different cap levels on the performance of the market. Simulation results suggest that the cap-and-trade system facilitates the expansion of high-input horticulture while maintaining the overall cap level, and that tighter cap levels have income distribution effects. Heterogeneity of productivity influences trading price, volume traded and gains realised from trading; also small homogeneous trading populations produce a thin market; and trading benefits might not justify creation and maintenance of the instrument and effort required to participate. Novel contributions of this article are how cap-and-trade systems function within a landscape in transition, and also modelling the equity of how benefits of trading are distributed across the population.

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Designing, testing and implementing a trial dryland salinity credit trade scheme

Cited by 23 publications

References 30 publications

The potential behavioural effect of personal carbon trading: results from an experimental survey

The potential behavioural effect of personal carbon trading: results from an experimental survey

Designing a Policy Mix and Sequence for Mitigating Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in a Water Supply Catchment

Agent-based modelling of emissions trading for coastal landscapes in transition

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