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Valuing impacts of the invasive alga Didymosphenia geminata on recreational angling

Beville, Stephen T.; Kerr, Geoffrey N.; Hughey, Kenneth F.D. - In: Ecological Economics 82 (2012) C, pp. 1-10

management concerns. Didymo degrades river esthetics, alters ecosystems, negatively impacts recreation experiences and may … require strict containment measures. This paper assesses the impact of Didymo on nonmarket values for recreational angling … Didymo had no significant effect on angling benefits. However, other classes were negatively affected. Overall, Didymo …

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Divestment of the English Forestry Estate: An economically sound choice?

King, Steven; Fraser, Iain - In: Ecological Economics 88 (2013) C, pp. 25-31

This paper evaluates if the proposed divestment of the English Forestry Commission Estate in 2010 was economically rational. The analysis is composed of two parts. First, an amenity value threshold for continued public access to the Estate was estimated. Based on a stated value of the Estate...

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Operationalising active involvement in the EU Water Framework Directive: Why, when and how?

Wright, Stuart A.L.; Fritsch, Oliver - In: Ecological Economics 70 (2011) 12, pp. 2268-2274

We identify two key stages in the river basin planning process under the Water Framework Directive: the selection of instruments for a programme of measures to achieve the environmental targets, and disproportionate cost analysis to determine whether selected measures involve high costs. Some EU...

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Spatially induced disparities in users' and non-users' WTP for water quality improvements—Testing the effect of multiple substitutes and distance decay

Jørgensen, Sisse Liv; Olsen, Søren Bøye; Ladenburg, Jacob - In: Ecological Economics 92 (2013) C, pp. 58-66

Costs and benefits of water restoration projects are not necessarily evenly spread out over the entire area affected by the project. The physical distribution of benefits is, therefore, an important parameter when conducting economic analyses of water restoration projects. Two particularly...

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Linking process to outcomes — Internal and external criteria for a stakeholder involvement in River Basin Management Planning

Blackstock, K.L.; Waylen, K.A.; Dunglinson, J.; … - In: Ecological Economics 77 (2012) C, pp. 113-122

Within the natural resource management and environmental governance literature, a number of authors have argued that there is a need to pay better attention to how the social processes of planning and management influence the outcomes of such processes. These outcomes are often measured through...

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Combining expert elicitation and stated preference methods to value ecosystem services from improved lake water quality

Van Houtven, George; Mansfield, Carol; Phaneuf, Daniel J.; … - In: Ecological Economics 99 (2014) C, pp. 40-52

With increasing attention on the contribution of ecosystems to human well-being, there is a need for tools that integrate ecological and economic models for valuing ecosystem services. To address this, we develop a protocol for linking ecological processes and outcomes to human preferences,...

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The effect of forest land use on the cost of drinking water supply: A spatial econometric analysis

Abildtrup, Jens; Garcia, Serge; Stenger, Anne - In: Ecological Economics 92 (2013) C, pp. 126-136

Forest land use is often associated with the protection of water resources from contamination and the reduced cost of drinking water supply. This study attempted to measure the value of the forest on the quality of water resources from a contingent market, namely drinking water supply, by...

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Nonmarket valuation of water quality: Addressing spatially heterogeneous preferences using GIS and a random parameter logit model

Tait, Peter; Baskaran, Ramesh; Cullen, Ross; Bicknell, … - In: Ecological Economics 75 (2012) C, pp. 15-21

The spatial distribution of agri-environmental policy benefits has important implications for the efficient allocation of management effort. The practical convenience of relying on sample mean values of individual benefits for aggregation can come at the cost of biased aggregate estimates. The...

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Valuing water quality improvement in China: A case study of Lake Puzhehei in Yunnan Province

Wang, Hua; Shi, Yuyan; Kim, Yoonhee; Kamata, Takuya - In: Ecological Economics 94 (2013) C, pp. 56-65

Even though surface water has been polluted almost everywhere in China, few economic valuation studies have been conducted to value water quality changes. This paper reports an economic valuation study conducted in Yunnan, China, which estimates the total value of a real investment project to...

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Designing watershed programs to pay farmers for water quality services: Case studies of Munich and New York City

Grolleau, Gilles; McCann, Laura M.J. - In: Ecological Economics 76 (2012) C, pp. 87-94

While preserving water quality by contracting with farmers has been examined previously, we analyze these arrangements from a different perspective. This study uses a transaction cost framework, in conjunction with detailed case studies of two water quality payment schemes, to examine factors...

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