Valuing Ground Water:

Economic Concepts and Approaches

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Size: 204 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1997

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Committee on Valuing Ground Water, National Research Council
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Valuing Ground Water integrates the latest economic, legal, and physical knowledge about ground water and methods for valuing this resource, making it comprehensible to decisionmakers involved in Superfund cleanup efforts, local wellhead protection programs, water allocation, and other water-related management ...
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"...a laudable effort to bridge the gap in language and perspective that often lies between physical scientists and resource economists interested in ground water...a primer for ground water managers and hydrologists who wish to be conversant in the basic economics ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Summary	1-12	(skim)
1: Introduction and Background	13-30	(skim)
2: Ground Water Resources: Hydrology, Ecology, and Economics	31-46	(skim)
3: A Framework for the Valuation of Ground Water	47-67	(skim)
4: Economic Valuation of Ground Water	68-104	(skim)
5: Legal Considerations, Valuation, and Ground Water Policy	105-126	(skim)
6: Case Studies	127-168	(skim)
Appendix A: Glossary	169-173	(skim)
Appendix B: A Portion of a Sample Contingent Value Method Questionnaire	174-176	(skim)
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members	177-182	(skim)
Index	183-189	(skim)

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Valuing Ground Water integrates the latest economic, legal, and physical knowledge about ground water and methods for valuing this resource, making it comprehensible to decisionmakers involved in Superfund cleanup efforts, local wellhead protection programs, water allocation, and other water-related management issues. Using the concept of total economic value, the book provides a framework for calculating the economic value of ground water and evaluating tradeoffs between competing uses of it.

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"...a laudable effort to bridge the gap in language and perspective that often lies between physical scientists and resource economists interested in ground water...a primer for ground water managers and hydrologists who wish to be conversant in the basic economics of ground water valuation." Ground Water, March-April 1998

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