Download or read book An Empirical Study of the Recreational Benefits Generated by a Water Quality Improvement written by Peter P. Caulkins and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Recreation Benefits of Water Quality Improvement written by Clark Shepard Binkley and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Recreation Benefits of Water Quality Improvements written by Clark S. Binkley and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Methodological and Empirical Study of the Recreation Benefits from Water Quality Improvement written by W. Michael Hanemann and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Benefits Of Improved Water Quality written by Douglas Greenley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, there has been general agreement that improvement and preservation of water quality, though costly, provided economic and social benefits that outweighed the expense. Now, however, some observers are beginning to question whether the costs of the 1972 Water Pollution Control Act may actually exceed those benefits. This book provides answers to some of the questions that have been raised. The authors give measures of several important nonmarket benefits of improved water quality in Colorado's South Platte River Basin and empirically test and confirm the Weisbrod and Krutilla proposals that the general public may be willing to pay for preservation of environmental amenities and that option value and other preservation values must be added to recreation-use values to give an accurate picture of the social benefits of environmental preservation and restoration. Their findings include the fact that even those who do not expect to use the river basin for recreation are willing to pay for the maintenance of a natural ecosystem and to bequest clean water to future generations. The authors also arrive at average amounts households are willing to pay for improved water quality to enhance enjoyment of water-based recreation activities. They suggest that, without such information, it is highly unlikely that sufficient resources will be allocated for the preservation of unique environments and for the improvement of those being degraded.
Download or read book The Recreation Benefits of Water Quality Improvement written by Clark S. Binkley and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Recreation Benefits of Water Quality Improvement in Selected Lakes in Minnesota written by Chung-Huang Huang and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measuring Water Quality Benefits written by V. Kerry Smith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1986-09-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 5 years ago we began working together on research for the U.S. Environmental Protec tion Agency (EPA) to measure the benefits of water quality regulations. EPA had awarded a contract to Research Triangle Inst~ute (RTIl in response to a proposal that Bill wrote on measuring these benefits. After meeting with the EPA project officer, Dr Ann Fisher, the basic outlines of what would become this research were framed. Upon the suggestion of Bob Anderson, then chief of the Benefits Branch at EPA, we selected the Monongahela River as the focal point of a case study that would compare alternative benefit measurement approaches. Exactly how this case study would be done remained vague, but Ann urged that there be a survey and that nonuse benefits be included in the question naire design. Of course, Bill agreed. At the same time, Kerry was independently working on a review article that tied together some of the loose threads in the option value literature. He had also been thinking about how to measure option value, as well as working on ways to generalize the travel cost approach for estimating benefits of site attributes. Glenn Morris at RTI suggested that Bill have lunch with him and Kerry and that they could talk about Bill's research to see if there were any mutual interest. Over the lunch and Bill's ever present dessert in a Chapel Hill restaurant, we found out just how much we have in common.
Download or read book Measuring Damages to Coastal and Marine Natural Resources written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Recreation Demand and Structural Model of Use and Non use Values of Water Quality Improvement written by Hyunjung Kim and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays addressing non-market valuation of changes in environmental quality. The first two essays develop and test structural models of use and non-use demand for ecosystem services and the last essay focuses on applications of the methods in empirical settings. This dissertation aims to provide theory-based empirical methods to elicit individual's willingness to pay for environmental quality improvement in the context of water resources.ESSAY 1: Estimating Recreation Demand with Incomplete Trip Location InformationThe first essay derives valid estimation procedures in recreation demand models with incomplete data on trip locations. Recreation datasets will often lack details on the locations of some or most trips, and it raises concern that standard estimators could yield biased results. To address this, I derive a likelihood function that is appropriate with or without complete information on trip locations. Using Monte Carlo simulation, I compare three nested logit estimators. In an empirical application, I use data from a web-based survey of trips in Michigan during summer 2018 to estimate a recreation demand model. Monte Carlo results and empirical results show that a convenient trip-weighting strategy that can be implemented in existing nested logit software closely approximates true values and values from a more complex structural model that fully accounts for the censored data.ESSAY 2: Testing the Robustness of a Structural Model for Discerning Use and Non-use Values of Ecosystem ServicesA theoretically consistent structural model facilitates definition and measurement of use and non-use benefits of ecosystem services. Unlike many previous approaches that utilize multiple stated choice situations, we apply this conceptual framework to a travel cost random utility model and a consequential single-referendum contingent valuation research design for simultaneously estimating use and non-use willingness to pay for environmental quality improvement. We employ Monte Carlo generated data to evaluate properties of key parameters and examine the robustness of this method of measuring use and non-use values associated with quality change. The simulation study confirms that this new method can generally, but not always, be applied to successfully identify use and non-use values of various ecosystems while consistency is ensured.ESSAY 3: Comparing Structural Estimation of Use and Non-use Values for Water Quality to Simpler Ad hoc ApproachesThe third essay assesses two components of welfare gains from water quality improvements using a structural model of use and non-use values. The combined revealed and stated preference model, based on a random utility travel cost model (RP) and contingent valuation (SP) method, measures both use and non-use values for water resources. I use recreation use and survey referendum data of the Michigan general population, consistently collected in a web-based survey. First, I estimate use values from a recreation demand model based on travel cost and trip-level data that each respondent reported. Then, I use the stated preference data to estimate total values of water quality improvement for changes in statewide water quality. Third, I extend the structural model of Day et al. (2019) to separately identify use and non-use values via joint estimation and validate the methodology. This paper builds on and contributes to literature on methodologies for estimation and delineation of use and non-use values.
Download or read book The Benefits of Protecting Rural Water Quality written by Stephen R. Crutchfield and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Download or read book EPA 600 5 written by and published by . This book was released on 1978-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Leisure Recreation and Tourism Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management written by Edmund Penning-Rowsell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new ‘Multi-Coloured Manual' This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency. It builds upon a previous book known as the "multi-coloured manual" (2005), which itself was a synthesis of the blue (1977), red (1987) and yellow manuals (1992). As such it expands and updates this work, to provide a manual of assessment techniques of flood risk management benefits, indirect benefits, and coastal erosion risk management benefits. It has three key aims. First it provides methods and data which can be used for the practical assessment of schemes and policies. Secondly it describes new research to update the data and improve techniques. Thirdly it explains the limitations and complications of Benefit-Cost Analysis, to guide decision-making on investment in river and coastal risk management schemes.
