Grantee Research Project Results

2020 Progress Report: Assessing the Contribution of Small Streams to Use and Non-use WaterQuality Values Using Modeling, Stakeholder Participation, and Decision Theory

EPA Grant Number: R836169
Title: Assessing the Contribution of Small Streams to Use and Non-use WaterQuality Values Using Modeling, Stakeholder Participation, and Decision Theory
Investigators: Borsuk, Mark E. , Howarth, Richard B. , Rogers, Shannon H. , Chen, Celia Y , Zuidema, Shan
Institution: Dartmouth College , Plymouth State University , University of New Hampshire
EPA Project Officer: Packard, Benjamin H
Project Period: April 1, 2016 through March 31, 2021 (Extended to March 31, 2022)
Project Period Covered by this Report: April 1, 2020 through March 31,2021
Project Amount: $798,337
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Research Category: Water

Objective:

The goal of this project is to develop a transferable framework for linking the health of small streams to water quality indicators, ecosystem services, and social preferences. The project aims to combine a spatially distributed modeling framework for gauging the determinants of water quality with two complementary valuation methods, deliberative multicriteria analysis, and choice modelling. The project focuses on watersheds across New Hampshire with a special focus on the Cocheco and Lamprey Rivers in Southeastern New Hampshire.

Progress Summary:

Our work on water quality modeling and deliberative multicriteria analysis are at an advanced stage. In 2020-2021, our team worked on the development of a stated preference survey that we had planned to administer in the spring of 2020. This timeline was pushed back by the disruption associated with the COVID pandemic. We therefore requested and received a no-cost extension through 3/31/2022.

Future Activities:

We are following the plan described in the recently approved no-cost extension. In particular, the development of our stated preference survey is nearing completion, and we plan to administer this survey at the statewide level in the fall of 2021. In addition, we will continue to work on multiple manuscripts that are currently at varying stages of preparation and peer review.

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Publications
Type	Citation	Project	Document Sources
Journal Article	Borsuk M, Mavrommati G, Samal N, Zuidema S, Wolheim W, Rogers S, Thorn A, Lutz D, Mineau M, Grimm C, Wake C, Howarth R, Gardner K. Deliberative multiattribute valuation of ecosystem services across a range of regional land-use, socioeconomic, and climate scenarios for the upper Merrimack River watershed, New Hampshire, USA. ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY 2019;24(2).	R836169 (2020)	Full-text: JSTOR - Full Text PDF Exit Other: JSTOR - Full Text PDF Exit
Journal Article	Mavrommati G, Borsuk M, Howarth R. A novel deliberative multicriteria evaluation approach to ecosystem service valuation. ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY 2017;22(2).	R836169 (2020)	Full-text: JSTOR - Full Text PDF Exit Other: JSTOR - Full Text PDF Exit
Journal Article	Mavrommati G, Rogers S, Howarth R, Borsuk M. Representing future generations in the deliberative valuation of ecosystem services. ELEMENTA-SCIENCE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE 2020;8.	R836169 (2020)	Full-text: Elementa - Full Text HTML Exit Other: Elementa - Full Text PDF Exit
Journal Article	Mavrommati G, Borsuk M, Kreiley A, Lacrosse C, Rogers S, Buford K, Howarth R. A methodological framework for understanding shared social values in deliberative valuation. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 2021;190.	R836169 (2020) R836169 (Final)	Full-text: ScienceDirect - Full Text PDF Exit Other: ScienceDirect - Full Text PDF Exit

Supplemental Keywords:

Ecosystem services, Small streams, Deliberative multicriteria analysis, Stated preference methods, Bayesian network modeling.

Progress and Final Reports:

Original Abstract

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