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RECORD NUMBER: 106 OF 157Main Title | Recreation Benefits of Water Quality Improvements: Analysis of Day Trips in an Urban Setting. | |||||||||||
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Author | Binkley, Clark S. ; Hanemann., W. Michael ; | |||||||||||
CORP Author | Urban Systems Research and Engineering, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.;Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. Office of Research and Development. | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1976 | |||||||||||
Report Number | EPA-68-01-2282; | |||||||||||
Stock Number | PB-257 719 | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Recreation ; Water quality management ; Environmental impacts ; Benefit cost analysis ; Demand(Economics) ; Models ; Sites ; Travel ; Surveys ; Beaches ; Massachusetts ; Households ; Regression analysis ; Urban areas ; Trip generation ; Boston(Massachusetts) ; Willingness to pay | |||||||||||
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Collation | 267p | |||||||||||
Abstract | Considerable past work has attempted to estimate the recreational benefits which might accrue from water quality improvements. The theoretical underpinnings of this work, however, are becoming increasingly suspect. This report explores demand models, new to recreation analysis, which are based on site characteristics and individual preferences to estimate benefit measured by consumer's surplus. The empirical findings of this study are based on a structured survey of 467 representative households in the Boston SMSA. The focus was specifically day trips to a system of Boston area beaches, but considerable additional data on willingness-to-pay, substitution between sites and activities, water quality perception and general recreation behavior was developed as well. |