Economic Research and Policy Concerning Water
Use and Management Proceedings of the Third Workshop in the Environmental
Policy and Economics Workshop Series
Summary
The purpose of the Environmental Policy and
Economics Workshop Series is to hold in-depth workshops on timely
topics that will further the use of economics as a tool for environmental
decision making. Both NSF/EPA grant recipients and researchers (from
EPA, fellow Federal agencies, academia, and others) will be invited
to attend and discuss their on-going research. Topics are chosen
based on relevance to current EPA issues and, more broadly, to issues
of concern to the environmental economics community. These topics
include exploration of innovations in economic research methods as
well as how research will further environmental policy making and
future environmental economic studies.
This report represents the proceedings of the third workshop of
this series. This two-day workshop was dedicated to exploring issues
surrounding water use
and watershed management. The first session concerned a specific case study
of the Snake River economic study currently underway by the Army
Corps of Engineers
and several other participating Federal agencies. The next three
sessions-"Integrating Economic and Physical Models in Water and Watershed
Research," "Methods for Measuring Stakeholder Values of Water Quality and Watershed
Protection," and "Applications of Stakeholder Valuation Techniques for Water
and Watersheds"-considered economic methods and research areas employed by
researchers who are more generally studying water use and/or watershed
management.
The Workshop included the following papers (please scroll
down for link to download
proceedings):
Table of
Contents-
Introductory Remarks by Chuck Clarke, Administrator,
US EPA Region 10 – Summarization.
Introductory Remarks by Bill O'Neil, US EPA Office of Economy
and the Environment – Summarization.
Session I: A Case Study of Watershed Management: The
Snake River
Watershed
Presentation by Dennis Wagner, US Army Corps of Engineers,
Northwestern Division, and Chair, Drawdown Regional
Economics Workgroup – Summarization.
Presentation by Audrey Perino, Bonneville Power Administration – Summarization.
Presentation by Phil Benge, US Army Corps of Engineers,
Walla Walla District – Summarization.
Presentation by Gary Ellis, US Army Corps of Engineers, Walla
Walla District – Summarization.
Presentation
by Phil Meyer, Meyer Resources, Inc. – Summarization.
Session 2: Integrating Economic and Physical Models in Water and Watershed
Research Adoption of Soil and Water Protection
Practices Among Land Owner-Operators in Three Midwest Watersheds, by Ted L. Napier and Mark Tucker, The Ohio State
University. A National Water Pollution Control
Assessment Model (NWPCAM), by Timothy Bondelid,
Research Triangle Institute; Charles Griffiths, US EPA Office of Economy and
Environment; and George Van Houtven, Research Triangle
Institute. Water Marketing & Instream Flow
Enhancement in the Yakima River Basin, by
Tracey Yerxa, US Bureau of Reclamation. Discussion of Napier and Tucker, and Bondelid,
Griffiths and Van Houtven papers. By Scott Farrow, Carnegie Mellon
University. Discussion of Yerxa paper. By Bill O'Neil,
US EPA Office of Economy and Environment. Question and Answer
Session.
Session 3: Methods for Measuring Stakeholder Values of
Water Quality and Watershed Protection Measuring the Total Economic
Value of Restoring Ecosystem Service in an Impaired River Basin: Results from
a Contingent Valuation Method Survey, by John Loomis, Paula Kent, Liz Strange, Alan Covich, and Kurt Fausch,
Colorado State University. Numbers, Values, and Decisions: Using
Constructed Preference Approaches to Value Watershed Management
Policies, by Robing Gregory, Decision
Research. Alternatives to Traditional CVM in
Environmental Valuation: Applied Research Challenges, by Trina Wellman, Battelle Seattle Research Center; and Robin Gregory,
Decision Research. Discussion of Loomis paper. By Linda Fernandez,
University of California, Santa Barbara. Discussion of Gregory papers. By Patricia
Koss, Portland State University. Question and Answer
Session.
Session 4: Applications of Stakeholder Valuation Techniques
for Water and Watersheds A Protocol for the Elicitation
of Stakeholders' Concerns and Preferences for Incorporation into
Policy Dialogue, Will Focht, Todd DeShong,
John Wood, and Katera Whitaker, Oklahoma State University. Are Bureaucrats and Scientists
Members of Advocacy Coalitions? Evidence from an Intergovernmental Water Policy
Subsystem, Paul Sabatier and Matthew Zafonte,
University of California, Davis. Economic and Environmental Tradeoffs
at the Watershed Scale: Costs of Stream Temperature Reductions, Sian
Mooney, Montana State University—Bozeman,
and
Ludwig M. Eisgruber, Oregon State University. Discussion of Focht, et al and Sabatier
and Zafonte papers. By John Tanaka, Oregon State University. Discussion of Mooney and Eisgruber
paper. By Charles Griffiths, US EPA Office of Economy and
Environment. Question and Answer Session.
Adoption of Soil and Water Protection
Practices Among Land Owner-Operators in Three Midwest Watersheds, by Ted L. Napier and Mark Tucker, The Ohio State
University.