dc.contributor.author | Hampson, DI | |
dc.contributor.author | Ferrini, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Rigby, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Bateman, IJ | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-16T15:55:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-08-19 | |
dc.description.abstract | An important motivation for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive is the creation of non-market environmental benefits, such as improved ecological quality, or greater opportunities for open-access river recreation via microbial pollution remediation. Pollution sources impacting on ecological or recreational water quality may be uncorrelated, but non-market benefits arising from riverine improvements are typically conflated within benefit valuation studies. Using stated preference choice experiments embedded within a survey that also collected respondents' socio-economic characteristics, we aimed to disaggregate these sources of value for different river users, thereby allowing decision makers to understand the consequences of adopting alternative investment strategies. Our results suggested that anglers derived greater value from improvements to the ecological quality of river water, in contrast to swimmers and rowers, for whom greater value is gained from improvements to recreational quality. More generally, we found three distinct groups of respondents: a majority preferring ecological over recreational improvements, a substantial minority holding opposing preference orderings, and a yet smaller proportion expressing relatively low values for either form of river quality enhancement. As such, this research demonstrates that the non-market benefits that may accrue from different types of water quality improvements are nuanced in terms of their potential beneficiaries and, by inference, their overall value and policy implications. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Funding for this research was provided by SEER (the Social and Environmental Economic Research project, funded by the ESRC; Ref: RES-060-25-0063) and ChREAM (the Catchment hydrology, Resources, Economics and Management project, funded by the joint ESRC, BBSRC and NERC Rural Economy and Land programme; Ref: RES-227-25-0024). ESRC support for Danyel Hampson (grant number ES/F023693/1} is gratefully acknowledged. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 9 (8), article621 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/w9080621 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34803 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | MDPI | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_GB |
dc.subject | Water Framework Directive | en_GB |
dc.subject | ecological and microbiological water quality | en_GB |
dc.subject | choice experiment | en_GB |
dc.subject | willingness to pay for river water quality | en_GB |
dc.subject | conditional logit | en_GB |
dc.subject | latent class analysis | en_GB |
dc.subject | non-market benefits | en_GB |
dc.title | River water quality: who cares, how much and why? | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-16T15:55:16Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from MDPI via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Water | en_GB |