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National Conference on Water, Food Security and Climate Change in Sri Lanka, Volume 2: Proceedings of the Water Quality, Environment and Climate Change, BMICH, Colombo June 9-11, 2...

Jinapala, Kiribandage - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2010

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The economic cost of wetland destruction

Schmidt, Carmel Elizabeth - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2008

Wetlands are often refereed to as the ‘kidney of the river’, but what is the value of the water filtration they provide …, and what is the cost of wetland destruction? This paper determines the economic value of wetlands for water filtration. It … demonstrates that wetlands are of considerable economic value, even where the volume of water filtered is in excess of that …

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ECONOMICS OF A WETLAND-RESERVOIR SUBIRRIGATION SYSTEM IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO

Richards, Steven T.; Batte, Marvin T.; Brown, Larry C.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1999

Subirrigation in conjunction with an artificial wetland has been shown to benefit the environment. It must also be demonstrated that this technology can be profitable for the private sector. Using cost structures developed from three Northwest Ohio test sites, this paper examines the economic...

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Factors Influencing Private Landowner Restoration Investment Decisions in Coastal Louisiana

Dedah, Cheikhna O.; Kazmierczak Jr., Richard F.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2010

Coastal wetland loss has been a major problem in Louisiana, exceeding 1.2 million acres over the last century alone. Although federal, state, and local efforts have attempted to combat this loss from a public perspective, little has been done to encourage private landowners to maintain and...

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Disposition of precipitation: Supply and Demand for Water Use by New Tree Plantations

Nordblom, Thomas L.; Finlayson, John D.; Hume, Iain H. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011

As the greatest rainwater users among all vegetative land covers, tree plantations have been employed strategically to mitigate salinity and water-logging problems. However, large-scale commercial tree plantations in high rainfall areas reduce fresh water inflows to river systems supporting...

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Consequentiality and Opt-out Responses in Stated Preference Surveys

Hwang, Joonghyun; Petrolia, Daniel R.; Interis, Matthew G. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 43 (2014) 3

The objective of this study was to test for the effect of consequentiality on the probability of a respondent opting out of voting in a stated preference survey. We find that respondents who believe that the survey is inconsequential are more likely to opt out than to vote yes in both...

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The Economic Value of Wetlands as Storm Buffers

Boutwell, Luke; Westra, John - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015

damages by using wetlands as storm buffers. The physical science literature shows that wetlands do provide situational … protection from storm surge. However, little economic analysis has explored the effect of wetlands on economic losses. This …-economic conditions and storm intensity allows the estimation of the value of wetlands for their protective ecosystem services under …

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America’s Wetland? A National Survey of Willingness to Pay for Restoration of Louisiana’s Coastal Wetlands

Petrolia, Daniel R.; Interis, Matthew G.; Hwang, Joonghyun - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013

A nationwide survey was conducted to estimate welfare associated with a proposed large-scale wetland restoration project in coastal Louisiana. Both binary- and multinomial-choice survey instruments were administered via Knowledge Networks, with the latter used to estimate willingness to pay for...

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What to Do with “Prefer Not to Vote” Responses from Contingent Valuation Surveys?

Hwang, Joonghyun; Petrolia, Daniel R.; Interis, Matthew G. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013

Arrow et al. (1993), the “Blue Ribbon” panel that issued guidelines for contingent valuation, recommended that respondents to contingent valuation surveys be explicitly allowed to give ‘no-answer’ responses such as ‘don’t know / not sure / prefer not to vote (PNV)’ in addition to...

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Simulation and Prediction of Water Allocation Using Artificial Neural Networks and a Spatially Distributed Hydrological Model

Papagera, A.; Ioannou, K.; Zaimes, G.; Iakovoglou, V.; … - In: AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics 6 (2014) 4

Lake Koronia is located in the North part of Greece and is protected by the Ramsar Convention of wetlands. A deficit in …

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