Diverse actions and events, ranging from agricultural development to global climate change, have the potential to affect the dynamics within distinct ecosystems. Resource management decisions require information about how people perceive ecosystem impacts and their willingness to pay to prevent...

Public decision-makers require information on the benefits and costs of policies for groundwater protection. The averting expenditures method for valuing environmental improvements is examined and used to approximate the economic costs of groundwater degradation to households in a southeastern...