Estimating the benefits of water quality improvements under the Water Framework Directive: are benefits transferable?

By N. Hanley, S. Colombo, D. Tinch, A. Black, Ashar Aftab. 2006

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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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Ocean Engineering

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Modeling preference heterogeneity in stated choice data: an analysis for public goods generated by agriculture (2009, background): “Environmental applications have increased markedly, see for example Carlsson et al. 2003; Colombo et al. 2005; Hanley et al. 2006; and Birol et al. 2006 .”
The Role of Stated Preference Valuation Methods in Understanding Choices and Informing Policy (2019, methodology): “This has included analyses of implementation of the European Union Water Framework Directive (Hanley et al. 2006; Metcalfe et al. 2012) and strengthening of minimum standards for coastal water quality for bathing (Hanley, Kriström, and Shogren 2009).”