Economic Value of Water Quality

Edited by John C. Bergstrom, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia, Kevin J. Boyle, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, US and the late Gregory L. Poe, Ph.D., formerly Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, US and Visiting Fellow, Jackson Environmental Institute (JEI) and Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), University of East Anglia, UK

• Contents: Preface 1. Economic Value of Water Quality: Introduction and Conceptual Background 2. Determinants of Ground Water Quality Values: Georgia and Maine Case Studies 3. Information and the Valuation of Nitrates in Ground Water, Portage County, Wisconsin 4. Measuring the Value of Protecting Ground Water Quality from Nitrate Contamination in Southeastern Pennsylvania 5. Ground Water, Surface Water, and Wetlands Valuation in Ohio 6. Assessing the Accuracy of Benefits Transfers: Evidence From a Multi-Site Contingent Valuation Study of Ground Water Quality 7. Benefits Transfer: The Case of Nitrate Contamination in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Maine 8. A Preliminary Meta Analysis of Contingent Values for Ground Water Quality Revisited 9. Summary and Conclusions Index

'. . . the book is of immediate policy significance. Those developing ground water management strategies in the USA will find the value estimates useful.'