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Young, Robert A. (Colorado State University, USA)

Determining the Economic Value of Water

Concepts and Methods

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Water provides benefits as a commodity for agriculture, industry, and households, and as a public good such as fisheries habitat, water quality and recreational use. To aid in cost-benefit analysis under conditions where market determined price signals are usually unavailable, economists have developed a range of alternative valuation methods for measuring economic benefits. This volume provides the most comprehensive exposition to-date of the application of economic valuation methods to proposed water resources investments and policies. It provides a conceptual framework for valuation of both commodity and public good uses of water, addressi… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Loomis, John B. (Colorado State University, USA)
  • ISBN: 978-0-415-83846-7
  • EAN: 9780415838467
  • Produktnummer: 15915983
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 358 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D0.0 cm 635 g
  • Auflage: 2 New edition
  • Abbildungen: 13 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Tables, color; 10 Tables, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white
  • Gewicht: 635
  • Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Über den Autor


Robert A. Young was a faculty member at University of Arizona before joining the faculty at Colorado State University in 1970. He was a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics for 21 years, and then was Professor Emeritus until his death in 2013. He had worked as a water policy consultant for the World Bank and the United Nations. Young's research interests were in water supply and quality, particularly in the case of offstream water uses, in agriculture, municipalities and industry. Young's research has received awards from the American Agricultural Economics Association, the Western Agricultural Economics Association, the American Water Resources Association, and Warren A. Hall Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Water Resources. John B. Loomis joined the faculty at Colorado State University in 1993, after being an Associate Professor at University of California-Davis. Previously he worked as an economist for two agencies in the U.S. Department of Interior. Loomis' primary research interests are in non market valuation of water resources such as recreation, instream flow, endangered species and public lands. Loomis' research has received several awards including from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. He was elected Vice-President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and was selected as a Fellow of that Association in 2013. He was also selected as a Distinguished Scholar of the Western Agricultural Economics Association in 2006.

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