How Green is Your Garden?: Using Reverse Auctioning to Maximize Citizen Participation in Governmental-led Environmental Programs

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Government programs aimed at promoting a cleaner environment can often suffer from both ballooning costs and lagging participation rates to deter them from achieving measurable successes. How to counter this trend? Why not use reverse auctioning? In this article, we analyze how the EPA has used competitive bidding to get the most “bang for the buck” and promote stormwater runoff management efforts to the most possible participants in a pilot program in the Cincinnati, Ohio area.

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