TY - JOUR
T1 - Estimating the benefits of water quality improvements under the Water Framework Directive
T2 - are benefits transferable?
AU - Hanley, Nick
AU - Colombo, Sergio
AU - Tinch, Dugald
AU - Black, Andrew
AU - Aftab, Ashar
N1 - Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The Water Framework Directive sets an objective of 'Good Ecological Status' for water bodies across the EU. Non-point pollution from agriculture is a major reason for the failure of rivers in the UK to meet this target. In this paper, we use choice experiment methodology to test the transferability of benefit estimates of water quality improvements for two small catchments where agricultural-source non-point pollution and irrigation water abstraction are the main threats to ecological status. We also investigate the most appropriate techniques to apply to transfer testing, including allowing for correlation between preferences for environmental attributes, and testing for acceptable differences between transferred and original values.
AB - The Water Framework Directive sets an objective of 'Good Ecological Status' for water bodies across the EU. Non-point pollution from agriculture is a major reason for the failure of rivers in the UK to meet this target. In this paper, we use choice experiment methodology to test the transferability of benefit estimates of water quality improvements for two small catchments where agricultural-source non-point pollution and irrigation water abstraction are the main threats to ecological status. We also investigate the most appropriate techniques to apply to transfer testing, including allowing for correlation between preferences for environmental attributes, and testing for acceptable differences between transferred and original values.
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U2 - 10.1093/eurrag/jbl019
DO - 10.1093/eurrag/jbl019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33748790916
SN - 0165-1587
VL - 33
SP - 391
EP - 413
JO - European Review of Agricultural Economics
JF - European Review of Agricultural Economics
IS - 3
ER -