TY - JOUR
T1 - Innovation in outcomes-based water quality policy
T2 - A case study from the Yahara watershed, Wisconsin, USA
AU - Wardropper, Chloe
AU - Gillon, Sean
AU - Rissman, Adena
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by the Regents of the University of California.
PY - 2018/12/31
Y1 - 2018/12/31
N2 - This case examines the risks and opportunities for stakeholders involved in an experimental water quality management program in Wisconsin, USA. This program pays for pounds of pollution reduced through soil conservation practices on farm fields and other high-runoff areas across the landscape-nonpoint sources of pollution-by redirecting funds from the sewerage plant and municipal point sources of pollution. Uncertain monitoring and modeling of pollution sources used for program payments and accountability create perceived and real risks to program participants and the environment, including the threat of regulatory enforcement, lost revenue, and failure to achieve environmental outcomes. On the other hand, in this case study, regulatory flexibility also opened a space for stakeholder dialog and programmatic cooperation that could lead to more adaptive and locally acceptable watershed pollution control in the future.
AB - This case examines the risks and opportunities for stakeholders involved in an experimental water quality management program in Wisconsin, USA. This program pays for pounds of pollution reduced through soil conservation practices on farm fields and other high-runoff areas across the landscape-nonpoint sources of pollution-by redirecting funds from the sewerage plant and municipal point sources of pollution. Uncertain monitoring and modeling of pollution sources used for program payments and accountability create perceived and real risks to program participants and the environment, including the threat of regulatory enforcement, lost revenue, and failure to achieve environmental outcomes. On the other hand, in this case study, regulatory flexibility also opened a space for stakeholder dialog and programmatic cooperation that could lead to more adaptive and locally acceptable watershed pollution control in the future.
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U2 - 10.1525/cse.2018.001222
DO - 10.1525/cse.2018.001222
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85104205587
SN - 2473-9510
VL - 2
JO - Case Studies in the Environment
JF - Case Studies in the Environment
IS - 1
ER -