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An economic analysis of the reservoirs reclamation methods in the K±odnica River catchment

Dubel, Anna - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 18 (2018) 1, pp. 103-113

Reclamation and rehabilitation of water reservoirs is particularly important for their functioning and fulfilment of … to determine the most suitable reservoirs reclamation method from the pre-selected methods (such as: hypolimnion removal … and silt dredging) for the three reservoirs in the K±odnica River catchment situated in Silesia Province. The presented …

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The Missing Benefits of Clean Water and the Role of Mismeasured Pollution

Keiser, David - 2018

Although the U.S. spends billions of dollars a year controlling water pollution, there is little empirical evidence of comparable benefits. This study argues that measurement error in pollution data causes benefits to be underestimated. Using upstream concentrations as instrumental variables for...

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Improving drinking water quality in South Korea : a choice experiment

Gschwandtner, Adelina; Jang, Cheul; McManus, Richard - 2017

Increased pollution leads to a constant decrease of drinking water quality worldwide. Due to safety concerns, unpleasant taste and odour only about 3% of the population in South Korea is drinking untreated tap water. The present study uses choice experiments and cost-benefit analysis to...

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What are households willing to pay for better tap water quality? : a cross-country valuation study

Beaumais, Olvier; Briand, Anne; Millock, Katrin; … - 2014

We estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for better quality of tap water on a unique cross-section sample from 10 OECD countries. On the pooled sample, households are willing to pay 7.5% of the median annual water bill to improve the tap water quality. The highest relative WTP for better tap water...

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Incorporating time lags and uncertainty in cost-benefit analysis of water quality improvements : a case study of Limfjorden, Denmark

Larsen, Tobias Holmsgaard; Lundhede, Thomas; Olsen, … - 2021

Cost-benefit analyses are commonly applied to assess the net welfare effects of policies to improve surface water quality. These analyses often disregard the biophysical fact that from implementation of policy measures to resulting improvements on water quality there will typically be...

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Nutrient Pollution and U.S. Agriculture : Causal Effects, Integrated Assessment, and Implications of Climate Change

Metaxoglou, Konstantinos; Smith, Aaron D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

extreme temperature. Based on the average streamflow of the Mississippi River at the Gulf of Mexico during this period and …

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Comparing contingent valuation and averting expenditure estimates of the costs of irregular water supply

Orgill-Meyer, Jennifer; Jeuland, Marc; Albert, Jeff; … - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 146 (2018), pp. 250-264

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China's water crisis

Ma, Jun - 2004

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Dealing with ignored attributes in choice experiments on valuation of Sweden’s environmental quality objectives

Carlsson, Frederik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina - 2009

Using a choice experiment, this paper investigates how Swedish citizens value three environmental quality objectives. In addition, a follow-up question is used to investigate whether respondents ignored any attributes when responding. The resulting information is used in the model estimation by...

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Environmental Valuation : The Sum of Specific Damages Approach

Graves, Philip E. - 2014

There is no abstract for this book chapter. It outlines one of the commonly used methods of valuing environmental improvements, discussing the implicit assumptions about perceptions that are embedded in this approach

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