Getting incentives right? a comparative analysis of policy instruments for livestock waste pollution abatement in Yucatan, Mexico
Building on the extensive theoretical and empirical work regarding the cost-minimizing properties of economic instruments, this article describes and analyses the Mexican legislation relevant to the treatment/disposal of pig slurry in the state of Yucatan. Using a linear programming model to determi...
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Cambridge University Press
2003
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| author | Drucker, Adam G. |
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| description | Building on the extensive theoretical and empirical work regarding the cost-minimizing properties of economic instruments, this article describes and analyses the Mexican legislation relevant to the treatment/disposal of pig slurry in the state of Yucatan. Using a linear programming model to determine the optimal level of pig production and abatement processes simultaneously, different policy instruments and scenarios are compared. Serious shortcomings associated with the recently introduced command and control (CAC) legislation, which establishes concentration based standards for discharges, are identified. It is shown that it will be extremely difficult and expensive to comply with (cost: US$41.8 million per annum). An alternative mass based CAC approach, which instead regulates nitrogen applications to land, has compliance costs of US$3.5 US$9.4 million per annum, depending on the strictness of the standard. By contrast, an environmentally equivalent economic instrument approach results in additional cost savings of 22 25 per cent. The results are of relevance to Mexican policy makers, extensionists, researchers, and farmers. |
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| spelling | CGSpace328892024-11-15T08:52:05Z Getting incentives right? a comparative analysis of policy instruments for livestock waste pollution abatement in Yucatan, Mexico Drucker, Adam G. policies livestock wastes farms pollution environment pigs economic analysis waste management development Building on the extensive theoretical and empirical work regarding the cost-minimizing properties of economic instruments, this article describes and analyses the Mexican legislation relevant to the treatment/disposal of pig slurry in the state of Yucatan. Using a linear programming model to determine the optimal level of pig production and abatement processes simultaneously, different policy instruments and scenarios are compared. Serious shortcomings associated with the recently introduced command and control (CAC) legislation, which establishes concentration based standards for discharges, are identified. It is shown that it will be extremely difficult and expensive to comply with (cost: US$41.8 million per annum). An alternative mass based CAC approach, which instead regulates nitrogen applications to land, has compliance costs of US$3.5 US$9.4 million per annum, depending on the strictness of the standard. By contrast, an environmentally equivalent economic instrument approach results in additional cost savings of 22 25 per cent. The results are of relevance to Mexican policy makers, extensionists, researchers, and farmers. 2003-05 2013-07-03T05:25:42Z 2013-07-03T05:25:42Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/32889 en Limited Access Cambridge University Press Environment and Development Economics;8(pt. 2): 261-284 |
| spellingShingle | policies livestock wastes farms pollution environment pigs economic analysis waste management development Drucker, Adam G. Getting incentives right? a comparative analysis of policy instruments for livestock waste pollution abatement in Yucatan, Mexico |
| title | Getting incentives right? a comparative analysis of policy instruments for livestock waste pollution abatement in Yucatan, Mexico |
| title_full | Getting incentives right? a comparative analysis of policy instruments for livestock waste pollution abatement in Yucatan, Mexico |
| title_fullStr | Getting incentives right? a comparative analysis of policy instruments for livestock waste pollution abatement in Yucatan, Mexico |
| title_full_unstemmed | Getting incentives right? a comparative analysis of policy instruments for livestock waste pollution abatement in Yucatan, Mexico |
| title_short | Getting incentives right? a comparative analysis of policy instruments for livestock waste pollution abatement in Yucatan, Mexico |
| title_sort | getting incentives right a comparative analysis of policy instruments for livestock waste pollution abatement in yucatan mexico |
| topic | policies livestock wastes farms pollution environment pigs economic analysis waste management development |
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