Economic assessment of non-market environmental benefits of water quality: An application of the Water Framework Directive to the Guadalquivir River Basin

Authors

  • Julia Martín-Ortega Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3).
  • Julio Berbel Dep. de Economía, Sociología y Política Agrarias. U. de Córdoba
  • Roy Brouwer Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University of Amsterdam

Keywords:

Beneficios ambientales, costes desproporcionados, Directiva Marco del Agua, modelo Heckman, valoración contingente.

Abstract

This study contributes to the economic assessment of the benefits derived from the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). A practical definition of environmental benefits and a valuation scenario of the non-market benefits of water quality improvement is proposed. This economic assessment is needed to asses whether the WFD is disproportionately costly. The contingent valuation method is applied to the Guadalquivir River Basin (Southern Spain), using a two-stage Heckman estimation model.

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Published

2011-10-14

Issue

Vol 9, No 1 (2009)

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