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Cost-effectiveness of mussel farming as a water quality improvement measure: Agricultural, environmental and market drivers 贻贝养殖作为水质改善措施的成本效益：农业、环境和市场驱动因素

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2020.100168

Raphael Filippelli , Mette Termansen , Berit Hasler , Karen Timmermann , Jens Kjerulf Petersen

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引用次数: 8

Recovering water for the environment during droughts through public water banks within a monopsony-monopoly setting 在垄断环境下，通过公共供水银行在干旱期间为环境恢复用水

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2020.100163

José A. Gómez-Limón, Carlos Gutiérrez-Martín, Nazaret M. Montilla-López

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引用次数: 2

Drinking water quality impacts on health care expenditures in the United States 饮用水质量对美国医疗保健支出的影响

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2020.100162

Fahad Alzahrani , Alan R. Collins , Elham Erfanian

{"title":"Drinking water quality impacts on health care expenditures in the United States","authors":"Fahad Alzahrani , Alan R. Collins , Elham Erfanian","doi":"10.1016/j.wre.2020.100162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wre.2020.100162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research explores the relationship between episodes of contaminated drinking water and health care expenditures in the United States. The analysis relies on panel data from the 48 contiguous states from 2000 to 2011. We use the population served by public water systems that violate health-based standards of the Safe Drinking Water Act as a proxy for contaminated drinking water. We estimate spatial and non-spatial models and control for factors that may affect per capita health care expenditures including variables that reflect air quality violations along with ability to pay plus demand for and supply of health care services. The results from a Spatial Durbin Model indicate that a 1% decrease in the annual percentage of population exposed to drinking water quality violations is associated with reductions in in-state and regional effects equal to 0.005% and 0.035% of per capita health care expenditures, respectively. While relatively small on a per capita basis, drinking water violations have a larger impact on health care expenditures than air quality violations (whose effects are not statistically different from zero). However, compared to other factors, such as Medicare enrollment and income, the impact of these violations on health care expenditures is small. We find that the cumulative regional health care expenditure impacts from drinking water violations are substantially greater than in-state impacts. Thus, a regional approach is recommended to addressing drinking water quality improvements.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48644,"journal":{"name":"Water Resources and Economics","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100162"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.wre.2020.100162","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44749060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

The impacts of three dimensions of (dis)similarities on water quality benefit transfer errors 三维相似性对水质效益传递误差的影响

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2020.100164

Johannes Friedrich Carolus , Jette Bredahl Jacobsen , Søren Bøye Olsen

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引用次数: 4

What do economic water storage valuations reveal about optimal vs. historical water management? 经济储水估值揭示了最优和历史水管理的什么?

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2020.100158

Majed Khadem , Charles Rougé , Julien J. Harou

{"title":"What do economic water storage valuations reveal about optimal vs. historical water management?","authors":"Majed Khadem , Charles Rougé , Julien J. Harou","doi":"10.1016/j.wre.2020.100158","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wre.2020.100158","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>What is the economic value of storing water for future droughts, and what are the consequences of this valuation for water management? One way to answer this question is to ask: ‘what is the valuation, which if used, would maximize a region's economic use of water?’ This prescriptive valuation can be done by linking classical hydro-economic models to global search methods. Another way to answer this question is to ask: ‘what do historical water management operations reveal about water's economic value?’ Indeed, past reservoir uses reveal the empirical inter-temporal valuations of past water managers. Although they may not have been optimized in a formal sense, in mature water resource systems with economic water demands, reservoir storage rules evolve via a socio-political process to embody societies' valuation of water. This empirical, ‘positive’, or descriptive valuation is captured by calibrating a hydro-economic model such that carry-over storage value functions enable simulated storage to match a historical benchmark. This paper compares both valuations for California's Central Valley revealing that carryover storage values derived from historical operations are typically greater than prescribed values. This leads to a greater reliance on groundwater use in historical operations than would have been achieved with system-wide optimization. More generally, comparing the two approaches to water valuations can provide insights into managers' attitudes as well as the impact of regulatory and institutional constraints they have to deal with – and that are not necessarily included in optimization models.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48644,"journal":{"name":"Water Resources and Economics","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100158"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.wre.2020.100158","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41898987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

Spatio-temporal design for a water quality monitoring network maximizing the economic value of information to optimize the detection of accidental pollution 基于信息经济价值最大化的水质监测网络时空设计优化意外污染检测

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2020.100156

François Destandau , Youssef Zaiter

{"title":"Spatio-temporal design for a water quality monitoring network maximizing the economic value of information to optimize the detection of accidental pollution","authors":"François Destandau , Youssef Zaiter","doi":"10.1016/j.wre.2020.100156","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wre.2020.100156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The reduction of damage due to water pollution requires good knowledge of the quality of surface waters. The Water Quality Monitoring Networks (WQMNs) have evolved over time according to the objectives of each one of them: knowledge of long-term quality evolution, search for the origin of pollution, detection of accidental pollution, etc. Information provided by WQMNs could be improved by a spatial approach, optimizing the location or the number of monitoring stations, or by a temporal approach, optimizing the sampling frequency. However, there is a cost for monitoring water quality.</p><p>In this article, we show, for the first time, how the estimation of the Economic Value of Information (EVOI) can be used to determine the spatio-temporal design of the network. With the example of a network that aims to detect accidental pollution, we show how to calculate the EVOI according to the spatial and temporal network design (number and location of stations, temporal accuracy of measurement) and how to define this design by maximizing the EVOI. This will allow us to answer questions such as: Are the expenses invested in the networks justified? With an additional budget, is it better to add a station or to increase the temporal accuracy of the measurement of existing stations? What is the optimal spatial and temporal design of the network when working with a fixed budget?</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48644,"journal":{"name":"Water Resources and Economics","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100156"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.wre.2020.100156","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43584479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 11

The potential contribution of oyster management to water quality goals in the Chesapeake Bay 牡蛎管理对切萨皮克湾水质目标的潜在贡献

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2020.100167

Nikolaos Mykoniatis , Richard Ready

引用次数: 2

WTP for water filters and water quality testing services in Guatemala WTP为危地马拉提供水过滤器和水质检测服务

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2019.01.005

Todd Guilfoos , Sarah Hayden , Emi Uchida , Vinka Oyanedel-Craver

引用次数: 10

Conflicting objectives in groundwater management 地下水管理目标冲突

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2018.06.001

Pereau Jean-Christophe

引用次数: 10

Cost function approach to water protection in forestry 林业水资源保护的成本函数法

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Water Resources and Economics Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wre.2019.100150

Jenni Miettinen , Markku Ollikainen , Mika Nieminen , Lauri Valsta

{"title":"Cost function approach to water protection in forestry","authors":"Jenni Miettinen , Markku Ollikainen , Mika Nieminen , Lauri Valsta","doi":"10.1016/j.wre.2019.100150","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wre.2019.100150","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) strongly emphasizes that all water polluting sectors must enhance the protection of water bodies in a cost-effective way. River Basin Management Plans need to be made to achieve a good environmental status for all water bodies by 2027 at the latest. This article examines three principal water protection measures used in forestry: buffer zones, overland flow fields and sedimentation ponds. We analytically develop marginal abatement cost functions for each of these measures and apply them numerically for the Finnish forestry. We find that the marginal abatement costs of nutrients using buffer zones in clear-cut mineral soil forests are very high, as they entail leaving financially mature and uncut trees. In contrast, the marginal costs of using overland flow fields in conjunction with ditch cleaning and clear-cutting in peatlands are very low. Furthermore, for sediments using overland flow fields as a water protection measure entails significantly lower abatement costs than does using sedimentation ponds in conjunction with ditch cleaning in peatland forests. A cost-effective solution in a river basin entails that the highest nutrient reductions are made in agriculture but that forestry also does its share. A cost-effective allocation of abatement measures entails that the proportions of the overall nutrient reduction are 3% (1%) in forestry and 97% (99%) in agriculture when the reduction target is set as 10% (30%).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48644,"journal":{"name":"Water Resources and Economics","volume":"31 ","pages":"Article 100150"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.wre.2019.100150","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48571315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4