The willingness to pay for groundwater

The diffusion of microgeneration technologies – assessing the influence of perceived product characteristics on home owners' willingness to pay

“…Schultz and Lindsay, 1990). Closeended questions can be single-bounded, double-bounded or multi-bounded.…”

Valuation of groundwater quality using a contingent valuation‐damage function approach

“…Other studies have allowed respondents to specify their own "subjective" probabilities of exceeding health standards [Sun et al, 1992;Poe, 1993] or perceptions of current safety levels [Powell, 1991], with the target being the reduction of the probability of exceeding standards to zero or the improvement of water quality to safe levels. Still other research has had respondents value broadly defined groundwater protection programs and policies [Schultz and Lindsay, 1990;Caudill and Hoehn, 1992; Randall and deZoysa, 1996; Barrett et al, 1996].…”

Environmental policies for a multifunctional agricultural sector in open economies

“…The two primary categories of chemicals that pose health risks to humans are pesticides and nitrates in drinking water from the use of nitrogen fertilizer. Based on estimates of these damages from the environmental literature (Poe, 1998;Environmental Working Group, 1996;Schultz and Lindsay, 1990;Powell, 1990;Pimentel et al, 1992) the base value of e is varied from $2 to $5 billion.…”