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Water Environment Research Foundation

The full-text reports can be ordered from WERF website.

• Phosphorus Credit Trading in the Cherry Creek Basin: An Innovative Approach - Executive Summary
• Phosphorus Credit Trading in the Kalamazoo River Basin: Forging Nontraditional Partnerships. Executive Summary.
• Phosphorus Credit Trading in the Fox-Wolf Basin: Exploring Legal, Economic, and Technical Issues - Executive summary
• Nitrogen Credit Trading in Maryland: A Market Analysis for Establishing a Statewide Framework - Executive Summary
• Nitrogen Credit Trading in the Long Island Sound Watershed - Executive Summary

 

World Resources Institute

Fertile Ground: Nutrient Trading's potential to cost-effectively improve water quality (2000) - Paul Faeth, World Resources Institute - Link

"Awakening the "Dead Zone": An investment for agriculture, water quality and climate change" - Suzie Greenhalgh and Amanda Sauer, WRI Issue Brief (2003)- link includes presentations on P, N and CO2 trading and full text document.

Nutrient Trading: Improving water quality through market-based incentives, World Resources Institute (2004)

A Guide to market-based approaches to water quality (2006). World Resources Institute (pdf)

Paying for Environmental Performance: Using reverse auctions to allocate funding for conservation - WRI Policy Note no 3 (Jan. 2007) - pdf

Paying for Environmental Performance: Estimating the environmental outcomes of agricultural best management practices - WRI Policy Note no 4 (May 2007) - pdf.

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