Estimating the Marginal Social Value of Agriculturally Driven Nitrate Concentrations in an Aquifer: A Combined Theoretical-Applied Approach

Cyril Bourgeois, Pierre-Alain Jayet, Florence Habets () and Pascal Viennot ()
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Florence Habets: GEOSCIENCES - Centre de Géosciences - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, METIS - Milieux Environnementaux, Transferts et Interactions dans les hydrosystèmes et les Sols - EPHE - École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers - SU - Sorbonne Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Pascal Viennot: GEOSCIENCES - Centre de Géosciences - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

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Abstract: We combine a theoretical model and a quantitative modeling chain based on a bio-economic model and a hydrological model in order to assess the marginal damage related to the nitrate concentration in an aquifer. The fundamental concept is to take the steady state level resulting from a social planner's optimization program as the target level of nitrate concentration. The interest of doing this is threefold: (i) we characterize the social value of damage related to the targeted nitrate concentration; which (ii) leads us to design the optimal path consistent with the target; and (iii) we can in turn assess welfare losses arising when the tax path deviates from the optimal one.

Keywords: non-point source pollution; nitrate; Aquifer pollution; WFD; Hydro-economic modeling; inverse modeling; optimal control; lag effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Water Economics and Policy, 2018, 4 (1), pp.1650021. ⟨10.1142/S2382624X16500211⟩

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DOI: 10.1142/S2382624X16500211

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