Some new approaches to measuring willingness to pay: a case study of flood risk reduction in Roanoke, Virginia

Benefits from a flood control project that accrue to a landowner are defined as the amount the landowner is willing to pay for the reduction in flood risk. The primary method utilized by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to estimate a residential landowner's benefits is the property damages avoi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dietz, Brian C.
Other Authors: Agricultural Economics
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36424
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12232009-020407/