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Trading Efficiency in Water Quality Trading Markets: An Assessment of Trade-Offs

McDonald, Hugh; Kerr, Suzi - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2011

Declining water quality as a result of increased nutrient leaching is a serious and growing concern, both internationally and in New Zealand. Water pollution issues have traditionally been addressed with command-and-control type regulation, but market-based nutrient trading schemes are becoming...

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Does Complex Hydrology Require Complex Water Quality Policy? NManager Simulations for Lake Rotorua

Anastasiadis, Simon; Nauleau, Marie-Laure; Kerr, Suzi; … - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2011

This paper examines six different approaches to nutrient management, and simulates the economic costs and environmental impacts associated with them using NManager, a partial equilibrium simulation model developed by Motu and NIWA, the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research. We...

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Mitigation and Heterogeneity in Management Practices on New Zealand Dairy Farms

Anastasiadis, Simon; Kerr, Suzi - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2013

Pastoral farming can result in adverse environmental effects such as nitrogen leaching and greenhouse gas emissions. However, the cost of mitigation and hence the socially appropriate level of tolerance for environmental effects is still unclear. Research to date within New Zealand has either...

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Managing Risks and Tradeoffs Using Water Markets

Kerr, Suzi - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2013

Risk (and often the certainty) of adverse environmental outcomes motivates environmental regulation; other risks also … helps manage other risks. However regulation not only mitigates risks, it also creates them. While the literature has … explored some aspects of risk and economic instruments in great detail, other risks have been largely ignored. Actual and …

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Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Cost Sharing and Allowance Allocation.

Kerr, Suzi; Lock, Kelly - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2008

This paper clarifies how the benefits and costs of water quality improvements in Lake Rotorua are likely to be shared in the absence of a trading system; presents different perspectives on and principles for deciding how costs should be allocated; and then shows how different options for initially...

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Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Overview of a Prototype System

Lock, Kelly; Kerr, Suzi - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2008

Water quality in Lake Rotorua has been declining for at least the last 30 years as increased levels of nutrients have entered the lake. Despite significant effort and expenditure, the level of nutrients entering the lake still exceeds sustainable levels. A nutrient trading system would help the...

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Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Choosing the Scope of a Nutrient Trading System

Lock, Kelly; Kerr, Suzi - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2008

A nutrient trading system is one mechanism that is currently being considered to control and reduce nutrient loss into Lake Rotorua. However this may not be the best mechanism for controlling nutrient loss from all sources. A more comprehensive system improves efficiency and decreases market...

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Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Where are we Now?

Lock, Kelly; Kerr, Suzi - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2007

A number of decisions need to be made when setting up a nutrient trading system including defining a target, allocating allowances and setting up a monitoring system. To ensure that the nutrient trading system implemented operates in harmony with existing regulation, existing work and...

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Towards Design for a Nutrient Trading Programme to Improve Water Quality in Lake Rotorua

Kerr, Suzi; Lauder, Glen; Fairman, David - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2007

This paper explores how to enhance the role for academic research (natural sciences, economics and their integration; and stakeholder management) within the development and implementation of water quality policy in New Zealand. Our focus is on the use of market based instruments and particularly...

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Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Determining Net Nutrient Inputs

Kerr, Suzi; Rutherford, Kit - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2008

Lake Rotorua is experiencing increasing nutrient-related water quality problems. This paper is one in a series that explores the idea of creating a nutrient trading system as part of the ongoing policy response to this problem.1 Most of the current nutrient flows to the Lake come from non-point...

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