Sector-Targeting for Controlling Nutrient Loadings: A Case Study of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River Watershed

The main purpose of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) is to achieve a water quality standard. The economic costs of reducing nutrient loadings are often not taken into account during development. In this study, sector targeting is used to minimize the total cost of nutrient reduction by targeting sec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Singh, Bibek B.
Other Authors: Agricultural and Applied Economics
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
BMP
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44021
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07292011-162124/