A framework for the economic analysis of alternative management plans for public drainage ditch systems is presented. The framework combines enterprise budgeting techniques with a flexible, spatially disaggregated, database framework. The approach is demonstrated with test data for public ditch...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2010. Major: Agricultural and Applied Economics. Advisor: Donald J. Liu. 1 computer file (PDF); vi, 170 pages, appendices A-B.

The paper examines the incentives that affect public water systems' decisions to notify the public of contamination incidents. A unique dataset on the public notification (PN) of maximum contamination level violations is used to analyze the determinants of, and the impact of regulatory change...