This paper examines how an improved water quality affects the demand for recreation in the Stockholm archipelago. Accomplishing the improvement by reducing nutrient emissions is costly, and is economically motivated only if benefits are great enough to cause a social gain. It is thus of great importance to estimate the benefits from improved water quality. In the present study, water quality is...

Declining reservoir storage has raised the specter of the first water shortage on the Lower Colorado River since the completion of Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams. This focusing event spurred modeling efforts to frame alternatives for managing the reservoir system during prolonged droughts. This paper addresses the management challenges that arise when using modeling tools to manage water scarcity ...

This paper reports on the demand for water-based leisure activity in Ireland based on data from a nationally representative telephone survey. Participation and trip demand are modelled using an augmented Poisson count model and consumer surplus welfare estimates are derived. The model is also used to investigate the level of social exclusion in water-based leisure activity. The demand for four ...

In this study, a fuzzy-stochastic-based violation analysis (FSVA) approach is developed for the planning of water resources management systems with uncertain information, based on a multistage fuzzy-stochastic integer programming (FSIP) model. In FSVA, a number of violation variables for the objective and constraints are allowed, such that in-depth analyses of tradeoffs among economic objective...

Procedures to divide a cake among n people with n-1 cuts (the minimum number) are analyzed and compared. For 2 persons, cut-and-choose, while envy-free and efficient, limits the cutter to exactly 50% if he or she is ignorant of the chooser’s preferences, whereas the chooser can generally obtain more. By comparison, a new 2person surplus procedure (SP’), which induces the players to be truthful ...

A country with a surplus river basin cooperates with a country with a deficit river basin in a joint investment project to build a water canal. The benefits from the existence of the canal are realized when cooperation halts and countries will have the opportunity to engage in a non-cooperative water market game. We define an imputation distribution procedure to share the “burden” from cooperat...