Use of Economic Valuation in Environmental Policy

Phoebe Koundouri has been an Assistant Professor at DIEES, Athens University of Economics and Business since 2005.

• 1. Introduction. Phoebe Koundouri and Kyriaki Remoundou PART I: CAN CHOICE EXPERIMENT HELP IN THE POLICY DESIGN PROCESS? SELECTED CASE STUDIES ON AQUASTRESS MITIGATION. 2. Choice experiments informingwater resources policy making: a review. Kyriaki Remoundou and Phoebe Koundouri 3. Local public’s valuation of flood risk reduction, biodiversity conservation and recreational activities: the Polish case study Ekin Birol, Nick Handley, Phoebe Koundouri and Yiannis Kountouris 4. Understanding farmers’ preferences for water policy design: the Portuguese case study. Akiko Katayama, Xiaoying Liu, Hanadi Musharrafiyeh, Mare Sarr, Timothy Swanson 5. Estimating farmers’ valuation of aquifer recharge with treated wastewater: the Cypriot case study Ekin Birol, Phoebe Koundouri and Yiannis Kountouris 6. An Analysis of Water Users’ preferences for a Community Based Management Regime to manage Groundwater Use: the Tunisian case study. Xiaoying Liu, Hanadi Musharrafiyeh, Richard Noden, Mare Sarr and Timothy Swanson PART II: CAN PARTICIPATORY AND ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS HELP IN THE POLICY DESIGN PROCESS? SELECTED CASE STUDIES ON AQUASTRESS MITIGATION. 7. The use of multi-agent based models to support water resources management: the Moroccan case study. Ole Benjamin Schroeder, Maria Manez and Paul Jeffrey 8. Industrial water management as a water stress mitigation option: the Bulgarian and Polish case studies. T. Wintgens, G. Dimova, I. Ribarova, E. Druzynska, M. Caruk, L.-S. Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia, K. Tarnacki, T. Melin and D. Savic 9. Enhanced reservoir operation as an instrument for supporting water stress mitigation: the Italian case study. Melanie Bauer, Paolo Botti, Stefania Zaccolo, Oliver Olsson PART III: CONCLUDING REMARKS FOR COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF WATER STRESS MITIGATION OPTIONS. 10. Defining the discount rate trajectory for the evaluation of water stress mitigation policies and projects. Yiannis Kountouris and Phoebe Koundouri

'This book will be of most interest to individuals interested in the use of 'economics' to understand environmental problems with economic tools, both theoretical and applied'.- Robert E. Wright, University of Strathclyde, UK