The Recreation Benefits of Water Quality Improvement
Author: Clark Shepard Binkley
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 276
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Author: Clark Shepard Binkley
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clark S. Binkley
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clark S. Binkley
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Douglas Reiling
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marc Ribaudo
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtract: A 1982 survey of recreationists using the northeastern portion of Lake Champlain indicates that improving the water quality of St. Albans Bay, Vermont, would produce significant economic benefits. St. Albans Bay is currently suffering nutrient enrichment problems from both point and nonpoint sources. Applying the survey data to a travel cost model produced a benefit estimate for clean water of $537,000 per year for recreationists. Recreation benefits for clean water estimated by using the contingent rating method came to $230,000 per year. The two methods are compared and reasons given as to why the contingent rating results may be more accurate.
Author: Douglas Greenley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-01-16
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0429705034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil 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.
Author: V. Kerry Smith
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9400942230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlmost 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.
Author: Chung-Huang Huang
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 536
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Recreation Advisory Council (U.S.)
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William J. Vaughan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-09-16
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1317356624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Federal Water Pollution Control Act, signed into law in 1972, dramatically redirected the nation’s water pollution control efforts and set out ambitious national goals, expressed both in terms of discharge controls and of resulting water quality. Originally published in 1982, this title examines the benefits that a reduction in the discharge of water pollutants has for recreational fisherman including an increase in the total availability of fishable natural water bodies and an improvement in the aesthetic quality of the fishing experience. It is a valuable resource for students interested in environmental studies and public policy making.