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Using economic valuation techniques to inform water resources management : A survey and critical appraisal of available techniques and an application
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The role of economic valuation techniques in assisting in the design of efficient, equitable and sustainable policies for water resources management in the face of environmental problems such as pollution, intensive land use in agriculture and climate change is defined.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2006-07-15. It has received 357 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Integrated water resources management & Contingent valuation.read more
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Ecosystem services and main environmental risks in a coastal lagoon (Mar Menor, Murcia, SE Spain): The public perception
TL;DR: In this article, a questionnaire was developed and presented to inhabitants and visitors of the Mar Menor area, including a broad representation of professions and activities, to identify stakeholder perception of the environment and how they evaluate the importance of ecological processes for maintaining ecosystem functioning and goods and services provided.
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Trend analysis of a tropical urban river water quality in Malaysia
TL;DR: The present policy on managing river quality in the Klang River has produced encouraging results; the policy should be further improved alongside more vigorous monitoring of pollution discharge from various point sources such as industrial wastewater, municipal sewers, wet markets, sand mining and landfills.
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Using multi-criteria analysis to explore non-market monetary values of water quality changes in the context of the Water Framework Directive
Julia Martin-Ortega,Julio Berbel +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) can contribute to a better understanding and interpretation of the choice experiment results by exploring the criteria involved in respondents' trade-off between the attributes.
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Modeling the effect of social factors on improving biodiversity protection
George Halkos,Nikoleta Jones +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effect of social factors (expressed as social and institutional trust social norms, and social networks) on the decision of individuals to pay for improvement of environmental protection of biodiversity.
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The effect of risk perception on public preferences and willingness to pay for reductions in the health risks posed by toxic cyanobacterial blooms
Peter D. Hunter,Nick Hanley,Mikolaj Czajkowski,Kathryn Mearns,Andrew N. Tyler,Laurence Carvalho,Geoffrey A. Codd,Geoffrey A. Codd +7 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that anticipated health risk reductions are an important nonmarket benefit of improving water quality in recreational waters and should be accounted for in future cost-benefit analyses such as those being undertaken under the auspices of the European Union's Water Framework Directive, but that such values depend on subjective perceptions of water-related health risks and general attitudes towards the environment.
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