The value of public and private green spaces under water restrictions

MacDonald, Darla Hatton; Crossman, Neville D.; Mahmoudi, Parvin; Taylor, Laura O.; Summers, David; Boxall, Peter C.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.01.003

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“…Identification and estimation of spatial patterns of nonmarket values have taken many forms in the literature. Hedonic studies are perhaps the most widespread approach to estimating spatial relationships of nonmarket values (MacDonald et al 2010;Agee and Crocker, 2010;Kong et al, 2007). Travel cost valuation methodology explicitly incorporates geographical locations of respondents into the analysis .…”

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Nonmarket valuation of water quality: Addressing spatially heterogeneous preferences using GIS and a random parameter logit model

Tait¹,

Baskaran²,

Cullen³

et al. 2012

Ecological Economics

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The spatial distribution of agro-environmental policy benefits has important implications for the efficient allocation of management effort. The practical convenience of relying on sample mean values of individual benefits for aggregation can come at the cost of biased aggregate estimates. The main objective of this paper is to test spatial hypotheses regarding respondents' local water quality and quantity, and their willingness-to-pay for improvements in water quality attributes. This paper combines choice experiment and spatially related water quality data via a Geographical Information System (GIS) to develop a method that evaluates the influence of respondents' local water quality on willingness-to-pay for river and stream conservation programs in Canterbury, New Zealand. Results showed that those respondents who live in the vicinity of low quality waterways are willing to pay more for improvements relative to those who live near to high quality waterways. The study also found that disregarding the influence of respondents' local water quality data has a significant impact on the magnitude of welfare estimates and causes substantial underestimation of aggregated benefits.Key words: Water Quality, Choice Experiment, Geographical Information System, Aggregate Benefits JEL codes: Q51, Q25, Q58 * Corresponding author: peter.tait@lincoln.ac.nz. Ph: 64 3 321 8274 Introduction 2The choices made by researchers when aggregating individual benefits can significantly affect the estimates that are available to be used in cost benefit analysis (Morrison, 2000). Aggregation of environmental values commonly relies on sample mean values of individual benefits. However, individuals' locations in relation to impact sites (proximity) may influence valuation and hence, it is important to account for spatial differences in estimating aggregate benefits (Bateman et al., 2006). Analysis of how values differ spatially within the population being aggregated can mitigate bias by identifying values conditional on spatially related variables that are hypothesised to influence individual preferences. This paper employed choice experiment (CE) methodology and spatially related water quality data in a Geographical Information System (GIS) to evaluate the influence of local water quality on respondents' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for river and stream conservation programs in Canterbury, New Zealand. Identification and estimation of spatial patterns of nonmarket values have taken many forms in the literature. Hedonic studies are perhaps the most widespread approach to estimating spatial relationships of nonmarket values (MacDonald et al. 2010;Agee and Crocker, 2010;Kong et al., 2007). Travel cost valuation methodology explicitly incorporates geographical locations of respondents into the analysis . A growing number of applications of these methods employ GIS tools to enhance accuracy of metrics and spatial modelling (Bateman et al., 2002). Comparison of separate models for individual regions is a traditional approach to investigating ...

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Nonmarket valuation of water quality: Addressing spatially heterogeneous preferences using GIS and a random parameter logit model

Tait¹,

Baskaran²,

Cullen³

et al. 2012

Ecological Economics

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“…To address multiple ecosystem services it is often necessary to use a combination of valuation methods (see, e.g., Boyer and Polasky 2004, Costanza et al 2006, Escobedo et al 2011. Hedonic pricing, an economic valuation method designed to, e.g., capture the value of UGS in terms of their contribution to the market value of housing property, is commonly used for analyzing the benefits associated with UGS in order to make them more visible and to provide support for urban planning in both America and Europe (see, e.g., Tyrväinen 1997, Tyrväinen and Miettinen 2000, Kolbe and Wüstemann 2015, as well as in Asia (see, e.g., Kong et al 2007) and Australia (Hatton MacDonald et al 2010, Mahmoudi et al 2013 . In this paper we focus on urban parks as the UGS unit of study.…”

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Capturing the value of green space in urban parks in a sustainable urban planning and design context: pros and cons of hedonic pricing

Engström¹,

Gren²

2017

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“…Demand management may have unintended social effects and create an imbalance in environmental justice, as consumers in diverse socioeconomic groups may experience water shortages and price increases differently [6]. Other social effects may emerge due to excessive water use restrictions that affect property values or frustrate residents [7]. Water use reductions may be highly unpredictable; low response rates may not conserve adequate water supplies, while high response rates may reduce water utility revenue [8].…”

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Exploring Tradeoffs in Demand-Side and Supply-Side Management of Urban Water Resources Using Agent-Based Modeling and Evolutionary Computation

Kanta

Berglund

2015

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Abstract:Urban water supply systems may be managed through supply-side and demand-side strategies, which focus on water source expansion and demand reductions, respectively. Supply-side strategies bear infrastructure and energy costs, while demand-side strategies bear costs of implementation and inconvenience to consumers. To evaluate the performance of demand-side strategies, the participation and water use adaptations of consumers should be simulated. In this study, a Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) framework is developed to simulate consumer agents that change their consumption to affect the withdrawal from the water supply system, which, in turn influences operational policies and long-term resource planning. Agent-based models are encoded to represent consumers and a policy maker agent and are coupled with water resources system simulation models. The CAS framework is coupled with an evolutionary computation-based multi-objective methodology to explore tradeoffs in cost, inconvenience to consumers, and environmental impacts for both supply-side and demand-side strategies. Decisions are identified to specify storage levels in a reservoir that trigger: (1) increases in the volume of water pumped through inter-basin transfers from an external reservoir; and (2) drought stages, which restrict the volume of water that is allowed for residential outdoor uses. The proposed methodology is demonstrated for Arlington, Texas, water supply system to identify non-dominated strategies for an historic drought decade. Results demonstrate that pumping costs associated with maximizing

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The value of public and private green spaces under water restrictions

Cited by 47 publications

References 42 publications

Nonmarket valuation of water quality: Addressing spatially heterogeneous preferences using GIS and a random parameter logit model

Nonmarket valuation of water quality: Addressing spatially heterogeneous preferences using GIS and a random parameter logit model

Capturing the value of green space in urban parks in a sustainable urban planning and design context: pros and cons of hedonic pricing

Exploring Tradeoffs in Demand-Side and Supply-Side Management of Urban Water Resources Using Agent-Based Modeling and Evolutionary Computation

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