The consequences of an innovative water quality policy
dc.audience | Lakes and Waterways Action Group | en |
dc.contributor.author | Spicer, A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Swaffield, Simon R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Fairweather, John R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Moore, Kevin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-24T04:34:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-15 | en |
dc.date.created | 2018-03-15 | en |
dc.description.abstract | This study assesses the consequences of Nitrogen Trading on the Lake Taupō catchment. It is designed to keep the agricultural sector productive as well as within environmental limits, and this makes the Lake Taupō Trading Programme unique. To date it is the only cap and trade programme in which a limit on non-point source nitrogen discharges is applied at both the watershed and the farm levels. Consequently, the Taupō case is acknowledged worldwide as an exemplar implementation of a cap and trade for water quality management. Water bodies, particularly lakes, are vulnerable to excess nutrients. The cap, in a cap and trade regime, enables an environmental goal (such as the amount of nitrate entering a lake) to be met while the trading part allows flexibility of farm management, encourages technology uptake and innovation, and allows changes that are in line with market signals. The study found that significant change has taken place since properties in the Catchment were benchmarked, and the direction of some of this change was unexpected. An important conclusion of the study is that caps on the discharge of nitrogen from farms, need to be coupled with sustained research investment into low nitrogen land uses and farm practices. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10182/9443 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Lincoln University. School of Landscape Architecture | |
dc.publisher.place | Taupo, New Zealand | en |
dc.relation | The original publication is available from - Lincoln University. School of Landscape Architecture | en |
dc.rights | © The authors Open access CC BY-NC-ND | |
dc.rights.ccname | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives | en |
dc.rights.ccuri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | water quality | en |
dc.subject | local government policy | en |
dc.subject | environmental management | en |
dc.subject | Lake Taupō Nitrogen Trading Programme | en |
dc.subject | cap and trade | en |
dc.subject | nitrate discharge | en |
dc.subject | agriculture | en |
dc.subject | environmental policy | en |
dc.title | The consequences of an innovative water quality policy | en |
dc.type | Oral Presentation | |
lu.contributor.unit | Lincoln University | |
lu.contributor.unit | Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit | |
lu.contributor.unit | Faculty of Environment, Society and Design | |
lu.contributor.unit | Department of Tourism, Sport and Society | |
lu.contributor.unit | School of Landscape Architecture | |
lu.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-5913-9953 | |
pubs.publication-status | Published online | en |
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