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Measuring the benefits of water pollution abatement /
Measuring the Benefits of Water Pollution Abatement.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Academic Press,
�1980.
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| Colección: | Studies in urban economics.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Measuring the Benefits of Water Pollution Abatement; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. Scope and Background; 2. Discharges and Ambient Environmental Quality; 3. The Dimensions of Ambient Water Quality; 4. Effects of Ambient Water Quality on Human Welfare; Chapter 2. Welfare Economics and the Basis of Benefit Measurement; 1. The Nature of Welfare Economics; 2. Basic Welfare Analysis; 3. Market Failure and Government Intervention to Ensure Market Efficiency; 4. Benefit Measures for Public Goods; Chapter 3. Economic Theory of Benefit Measurement.
- 1. Introduction2. Marginal Conditions for Public Good Provision; 3. Basic Benefit Concepts; 4. Consumer Surplus as an Approximation; 5. Some Special Problems; 6. Conclusions; Appendix: Option Value; Chapter 4. Measurement of Instream Water Quality Benefits; 1. Introduction; 2. A Survey of Empirical Techniques of Instream Water Quality Benefit Estimates; 3. Weak Complementarity and the Travel Cost Approach to Benefit Estimation; 4. Hedonic Prices and Land Values; Chapter 5. Estimating Public Goods Demands and Demand Interdependency; 1. Introduction; 2. Definition of the Demand for Public Goods.
- 3. Weak Complementarity4. Derivation of the Theorem; 5. Example; 6. Use of Market Data; 7. Weak Substitutability; 8. The Hedonic Price Equation; 9. The Theorem with Compensated Demand Functions; 10. Multiple Private Goods; 11. Conclusions; Chapter 6. Measurement of Withdrawal Benefits; 1. Introduction; 2. Withdrawal Benefits and Cost Functions; 3. Withdrawal Benefits and Input Demand Equations; 4. Empirical Studies of Withdrawal Benefits; Appendix: Firms' Demand for a Public Good; Chapter 7. Empirical Studies of Instream Benefits; 1. Introduction.
- 2. Statistical Specification in Travel Cost Studies3. A Logit Model and Its Estimation; 4. A Property Value Study; 5. An Aggregate Tobit Model; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Chapter 8. An Empirical Study of Withdrawal Benefits; 1. Introduction; 2. Comments on Recent Health Effects Studies; 3. A New Study Using EPA Data; 4. Comments on Studies of Industrial Benefits of Pollution Abatement; Chapter 9. Estimates of National Benefits of Water Pollution Abatement; 1. Introduction; 2. A Critical Evaluation of Techniques of Benefit Estimation; 3. Revised DRPA Estimates of National Recreational Benefits.
- 4. Swimming Benefit Estimates Based on the Boston Data5. Concluding Remarks on National Benefits; Chapter 10. Conclusions; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic Welfare and Benefit-Cost Theory; 3. Measurement of Benefits from Water Pollution Abatement; 4. Empirical Studies of Benefits from Water Pollution Control; References; Index.