RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Best Management Practices and Nutrient Reduction: An Integrated Economic-Hydrologic Model of the Western Lake Erie Basin JF Land Economics JO Land Econ FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 510 OP 530 DO 10.3368/wple.96.4.510 VO 96 IS 4 A1 Hongxing Liu A1 Wendong Zhang A1 Elena Irwin A1 Jeffrey Kast A1 Noel Aloysius A1 Jay Martin A1 Margaret Kalcic YR 2020 UL http://le.uwpress.org/content/96/4/510.abstract AB We develop the first spatially integrated economic-hydrologic model of the western Lake Erie basin explicitly linking economic models of farmers’ field-level best management practice (BMP) adoption choices with the Soil and Water Assessment Tool to evaluate nutrient management policy cost-effectiveness. We quantify trade-offs among phosphorus reduction policies and find that a hybrid policy coupling a fertilizer tax with cost-share payments for subsurface placement is the most cost-effective and can achieve the policy goal of 40% reduction in nutrient loadings. We also find economic adoption models alone can overstate the potential for BMPs to reduce nutrient loadings by ignoring biophysical complexities. (JEL Q18, Q53)