Title:
The economics of water quality
Series:
International library of environmental economics and policy
Publication Information:
Aldershots, England : Ashgate Publishing, 2006
Physical Description:
xxvii, 592 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780754623717
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Summary
Summary
This volume brings together a number of prominent economic studies all of which deal with key water quality issues. The studies focus on the economic aspects of water quality including identifying the polluters' actions and incentives, designing and comparing control mechanisms, analyzing the costs and benefits of water quality programmes, and finally managing transboundary water quality. They all make recommendations for improving water quality through changing incentives, programmes and/or policies.
Author Notes
K. William Easter and Naomi Zeitouni are both based in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, USA.
Table of Contents
| Series preface |
| Introduction |
| Part I Managing Alternative Sources of Water Pollution |
| Industrial Water Pollution |
| Environmental regulation, investment timing and technology choiceWayne B. Gray and Ronald J Shadbegian |
| Industrial pollution in economic development |
| The environmental Kuznets curve revisitedHemamala Hettige and Muthukumara Mani and David Wheeler |
| The cost of water pollution regulation in the pulp and paper industryJohn D. McClelland and John K. Horowitz |
| Agricultural Water Pollution: Dynamics of agricultural groundwater extractionPetra Helleger and David Zilberman and Ekko van Ierland |
| Optimal self-protection from nitrate-contaminated groundwaterRichard C. Ready and Kimberly Henken |
| Economic risk and water quality protection in agricultureDarrell J. Bosch and James W Pease |
| Endogenous transport coefficientsAnastasia M. Lintner and Alfons Weersink |
| Part II Alternative Instruments for Controlling Water Pollution |
| Regulation, Standards, Taxes, Subsidies and Liability for Water Quality |
| Agricultural runoff as a nonpoint externality |
| A theoretical developmentRonald C. Griffin and Daniel W Bromley |
| Agricultural pollution control under Spanish and European environmental policiesYolanda Martinez and Jose Albiac |
| Land retirement as a tool for reducing agricultural nonpoint source pollutionMarc O. Ribaudo and C. Tim Osborn and Kazim Konyor |
| Modeling regional irrigation decisions and drainage pollution controlAriel Dinar and Stephen A. Hatchett and Edna J. Loehman |
| Liability for groundwater contamination from pesticidesKathleen Segerson |
| Water Pollution Permits and Nutrient Trading to Improve Water Quality |
| The structure and practice of water quality trading marketsRichard T. Woodward and Ronald A. Kaiser and Aaron-Marie B. Wicks |
| Transferable discharge permits and economic efficiency: the Fox riverWilliam O''Neal and Martin David and Christina Moore and Erhard Joeres |
| Point-nonpoint nutrient trading in the Susquehanna river basinRichard D. Horan and James S. Shortle and David G. Abler |
| Point nonpoint reduction trading: an interpretive surveyDavid Letson |
| Point nonpoint source trading of pollution abatement: choosing the right trading ratioArun S. Malik and David Letson and Stephen R. Crutchfield |
| A trading-ration system for trading water pollution discharge permitsMing-Feng Hung and Diagee Shaw |
| Part III Returns from Clean Water |
| Provision of Clean water |
| The economics of safe drinking waterRobert Innes and Dennis Cory |
| Economic objectives within a bureaucratic decision process: setting pollution control requirements under the Clean Water ActArthur G. Fraas and Vincent G. Munley |
| Willingness to Pay to Prevent Water Pollution |
| Joint production and averting expenditure measures of willingness to pay: do water expenditures really measure avoidance costs?Nii Adote Abrahams and Bryan J. Hubbell and Jeffrey L. Jordan |
| The economic benefits of surface water quality improvements in developing countries |
| A case study of Davao, PhilippinesKyeongAe Choe and Dale Whittington and Donald T. Lauria |
| Contingent valuation in Korean environmental planning: a pilot application to the protection of drinking water in SeoulSeung-Jun Kwak and Clifford S. Russell |
| Option prices of groundwater protectionSteven F. Edwards |
| Cost of Preventing Water Pollution: The on-farm costs of reducing groundwater pollutionScott L. Johnson and Richard M. Adams and Gregory M. Perry |
| Implications of alternative policies on nitrate contamination of groundwaterManzoor E. Chowdhury and Ronald D. Lacewell |
| Optimal spatial management of agricultural pollutionJohn Braden and Gary V. Johnson and Aziz Bouzaher and David Miltz |
| Part IV Transboundary Water Pollution Control |
| Trade''s dynamic solutions to transboundary pollutionLinda Fernandez |
| Transboundary water management: game-theoretic lessons for projects on the US-Mexico borderGeorge B. Frisvold and Margriet F. Caswell |
| Does trade promote environmental coordination?Hilary Sigman |
| Part V Trends |
