Dear Ecologgers, some of you may be interested in this, cheers! Silvia Secchi Assistant Professor, Energy and Environmental Policy, Southern Illinois University ssec...@siu.edu
A Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE) webinar to celebrate Choices Magazine. When: Friday, March 21, 2014 Time: 2 PM ET – 3 PM ET Registration Link https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4353156007248483841 Summary: The most recent assessment of U.S. surface waters reveals that 55% of the nation’s rivers and streams are in poor condition. The leading causes of impairment are pollutants associated with land uses such as roads, parking lots, and farm fields. These “non-point” water pollutants diminish aesthetic and recreational values; raise costs of treating water for drinking and industrial uses; impair stream and reservoir ecosystems; and create nutrient-induced dead zones. As federal budgets grow more limited and legislative will ebbs, U.S. conservation and environmental goals are broadening to encompass soil productivity, air and water quality, and wildlife habitat as well as carbon sequestration. In view of these divergent trends, new approaches to protecting America’s water bodies are needed. The 2014 Farm Bill re-couples conservation compliance with a robust crop insurance program while reducing conservation funding. With encouragement from U.S. EPA, and in some instances responding to federal inaction, states, tribes, communities, and even private supply chains are developing innovative ways to determine impacts and create incentives for stewardship. These initiatives include California’s Cap and Trade Carbon program, Wetland Banking pursuant to the Clean Water Act, and large scale Total Maximum Daily Loads regulations. This webinar will discuss the ‘state- of- the-art’ in nonpoint source pollution policy and analysis to help inform policy development. Speakers: · Dr. John Braden, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Economics, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois · Dr. Silvia Secchi, Assistant Professor, College of Agricultural Sciences at Southern Illinois University Register here by March 20. https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4353156007248483841 This webinar is part of C-FARE series highlighting the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s (AAEA) Choices Magazine stand-alone articles and themes. For further information we encourage you to read the following Choices Magazine articles (http://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/theme- articles/innovations-in-nonpoint-source-pollution-policy): Theme Overview: Innovations in Nonpoint Source Pollution Policy John B. Braden and Kevin J. Boyle Addressing Death by a Thousand Cuts: Legal and Policy Innovations to Address Nonpoint Source Runoff Lara B. Fowler, Matthew B. Royer, and Jamison E. Colburn State Level Efforts to Regulate Agricultural Sources of Water Quality Impairment Catherine L. Kling Local Innovations in Water Protection: Experiments with Economic Incentives Lisa A. Wainger and James S. Shortle Integrated Modeling for Conservation Policy Support Silvia Secchi A Tale of Many Cities: Using Low-Impact Development to Reduce Urban Water Pollution Amy W. Ando and Noelwah R. Netusil U.S. Coastal and Estuarine Stormwater Management Approaches Sara Aminzadeh, Linwood Pendleton, Sean Bothwell, Amy Pickle, and Alexandria B. Boehm Innovations in Nonpoint Source Pollution Policy-European Perspectives Jussi Lankoski and Markku Ollikainen
