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Title: Modeling environmental risk and land management trade-offs in the Great Barrier Reef catchment
Authors: Mallawaarachchi, Thilak
Mazur, Kasia
Lawson, Kenton
Keywords: non-point source pollution
water quality
land use
cost-effectiveness
coastal zone management
Issue Date: 2007
Series/Report no.: Conference Paper
Abstract: We develop a catchment scale modeling framework to identify cost-effective strategies for joint onsite abatement and offsite mitigation of land-based pollution from agricultural activities that pose a risk to water quality in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). An illustrative example of the Barron catchment in north Queensland is used to demonstrate an approach to specify social plannerÂ’'s problem for non-point source pollution management as a cost minimisation model to meet a specified reduction in land-based pollution emissions at the receiving waters of GBR. We focus on the tradeoffs between onsite pollution control and offsite pollution mitigation under a collective contract for nutrient reduction at a sub-catchment level and discuss implementation options.
URI: http://purl.umn.edu/10377
Institution/Association: Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - 2007>2007 Conference (51st), February 13-16, 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand
Total Pages: 21
Language: English
Collections:2007 Conference (51st), February 13-16, 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand

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