Economics of Coastal and Water Resources

by Turner, R. Kerry; Bateman, Ian J.; Adger, W. Neil

• ISBN13: 9780792365044
• ISBN10: 0792365046
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book examines in detail the resource management problems and challenges posed by the intensification of the environmental change process in coastal areas around the globe. The analysis deployed is by and large buttressed by methods and techniques drawn from social science disciplines: economics, geography, and psychology. However, the overall approach adopted is multidisciplinary with additional contributions from the natural sciences and statistics. The key concept developed is that of ecosystem function value diversity and its management policy analogue, ecosystem integrity maintenance, and the consequent sustainable utilisation of coastal system assets. The functioning of healthy ecosystems generates a range of outputs which society values. The individual chapters analyse and evaluate a range of coastal and water resource functions across different temporal and spatial scales.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Ecological Economics and Coastal Zone Ecosystems' Values: An Overview	1	(44)
Turner R.K.
Bateman, I.J.
Adger, W.N.
Economics, Ecology and Fisheries Management	45	(22)
Tinch, R.
Measuring the Recreational and Amenity Values Affected by Toxic Cyanobacteria: A Contingent Valuation Study of Rutland Water, Leicestershire	67	(24)
Pearson M.J.
Bateman, I.J.
Codd, G.A.
Public Preferences for Reducing Health Risks from Polluted Coastal Bathing Water	91	(22)
Georgiou, S.
Langford, I.H.
Bateman, I.J.
Day, R.J.
Turner, R.K.
The Application of the Cost Benefit Method to Sea Defence and Coastal Protection Management in England	113	(30)
Bateman, I.J.
Turner, R.K.
Klein, R.J.T.
Langford, I.H.
Use and Nonuse Values for Conserving Endangered Species: The Case of the Mediterranean Monk Seal	143	(16)
Langford, I.H.
Skourtos, M.S.
Kontogianni, A.
Day, R.J.
Georgiou, S.
Bateman, I.J.
Management of a Multi-Purpose Coastal Wetland: The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads, England	159	(56)
Brouwer, R.
Bateman, I.J.
Turner, R.K.
Adger, W.N.
Boar, R.
Crooks, S.
Dockerty, T.
Georgiou, S.
Jones, A.
Langford, I.H.
Ledoux, L.
Nishikawa, N.
Powe, N.
Wright, J.
Wright, S.
Valuation and Management of Nutrient Pollution in the Baltic Drainage Basin	215	(20)
Georgiou, S.
Turner, R.K.
Bateman, I.J.
Waste Assimilation and Management in the North Sea	235	(24)
Turner, R.K.
Powell, J.C.
Adger, W.N.
Crooks, S.
Costs and Benefits of Mangrove Conversion and Restoration	259	(22)
Adger, W.N.
Kelly, P.M.
Tri, N.H.
Prospecting for Marine Biodiversity: A Case Study in Montego Bay, Jamaica	281	(24)
Ruitenbeek, J.
Cartier, C.
A Meta-Analysis of Wetland Contingent Valuation Studies	305	(18)
Brouwer, R.
Langford, I.H.
Bateman, I.J.
Turner, R.K.
On Participatory Valuation in Shoreline Management	323	(18)
O'Riordan, T.
List of Contributing Authors	341