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Norris, Patricia E. and Andrew F. Seidl. " Federal Water Quality Policy and Animal Confinement Operations." In J. Outlaw and E. Smith, eds., The 2002 Farm Bill: Policy Options and Consequences. Publication 2001-01, Farm Foundation, Oak Brook, IL. Sept 2001.

Batie, Sandra S. and Patricia E. Norris. "2000 Patchwork Policies: Localities Manage a Mounting National Problem." In Smart Environmental Policy for Animal Agriculture: Possibility or Pipe Dream. Council on Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics (CFARE), June 1999, p. 3.

Casey, F., A. Schmitz, S. Swinton, and D. Zilberman, eds. 1999. Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture. Boston: Kluwer. (370 pages.)

Norris, Patricia E. and Amy P. Thurow. "Environmental Policy and Technology Adoption in Animal Agriculture." Chapter 12 (pp.193-210) in F. Casey, A. Schmitz, S. Swinton and D. Zilberman (eds.) Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture. Kluwer Publishing. 1999.

Swinton, S.M. and C.F. Casey 1999. "From Adoption to Innovation of Environmental Technologies." In F. Casey, A. Schmitz, S. Swinton, and D. Zilberman, eds., Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture, Boston: Kluwer. Pages 351-359.

Swinton, S.M., M.C. Chu, and S.S. Batie 1999. "Agricultural Production Contracts to Reduce Water Pollution." In F. Casey, A. Schmitz, S. Swinton, and D. Zilberman, eds., Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture, Boston: Kluwer. Pages 273-283.

Swinton, S.M., N.N. Owens, and E.O. van Ravenswaay 1999. "Health Risk Information to Reduce Water Pollution." In F. Casey, A. Schmitz, S. Swinton, and D. Zilberman, eds., Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture, Boston: Kluwer. Pages 263-271.

Stephenson, Kurt, Patricia Norris, and Leonard Shabman. "Effluent Allowance Trading: The Nonpoint Source Challenge." Contemporary Economic Policy, 16(October 1998)4:412-421.

Chu, M.C., S.M. Swinton, and S.S. Batie, with C. Dobbins 1997. "Designing Contracts to Reduce Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution." Taiwanese Agricultural Economic Review 2(2): 187-209.

Chu, M.C., S.M. Swinton, S.S. Batie and C. Dobbins 1997. "Agricultural Production Contracts to Reduce Nitrate Leaching: A Whole-Farm Analysis." Taiwanese Agricultural Economic Review 2(2): 163-185.

Chu, M.C., S.M. Swinton, and S.S. Batie 1997. "A Risk Programming Approach to Designing Contracts to Reduce Nitrate Leaching." Staff Paper 97-14, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Swinton, S.M. and D.S. Clark 1994. "Farm-Level Evaluation of Alternative Policy Approaches to Reduce Nitrate Leaching from Midwest Agriculture." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 23(1): 66-74.

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