Diffuse Pollution, Degraded Waters: emerging policy solutions

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

122 Seiten

2017
IWA Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78040-878-1 (ISBN)

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After decades of regulation and investment to reduce point source water pollution, OECD countries still face water quality challenges (e.g. eutrophication) from diffuse agricultural and urban sources of pollution, that is disperse pollution from surface runoff, soil filtration and atmospheric deposition. The relative lack of progress reflects the complexities of controlling multiple pollutants from multiple sources, their high spatial and temporal variability, associated transactions costs, and limited political acceptability of regulatory measures. This report outlines the water quality challenges facing OECD countries today, presents a range of policy instruments and innovative case studies of diffuse pollution control, and concludes with an integrated policy framework to tackle diffuse water pollution. An optimal approach will likely entail a mix of policy interventions reflecting the basic OECD principles of water quality management – pollution prevention, treatment at source, the polluter pays and beneficiary pays principles, equity, and policy coherence.

Executive Summary; The Water Quality Challenge; An overview of the main water pollutants in OECD countries; Economic costs and policy approaches to control diffuse source water pollution; Emerging policy instruments for the control of diffuse source water pollution; A policy framework for diffuse source water pollution management;
This book belongs to the OECD Report Series

Erscheinungsdatum	10.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	OECD Report Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-78040-878-1 / 1780408781
ISBN-13	978-1-78040-878-1 / 9781780408781
Zustand	Neuware