Valuing Environmental Costs of Algal Blooms. An application to Santa Ponça Bay, Mallorca

Catalina M. Torres Figuerola, Dolores García Pérez () and Antoni Riera Font

No 2007/03, CRE Working Papers (Documents de treball del CRE) from Centre de Recerca Econòmica (UIB ·"Sa Nostra")

Abstract: In many recreational sites, marine coastal water can be affected by the presence of algal blooms, having potential impacts, although not exclusively, on recreational activities. This paper applies a choice experiment to elicit the marginal value for a set of attributes describing coastal water quality improving programs in the presence of algal blooms in Santa Ponça Bay, Mallorca (Spain), where the main impact is a temporary loss of sight depth in coastal water. Results from show that, for the residents of the area, a policy decreasing both the duration and intensity of the bloom would be welfare improving. Besides, there exist nonlinearities in the valuation function for the attributes related to the extent and duration of the blooms.

Keywords: Choice experiments; Water quality; Algal blooms; Thresholds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2007-01, Revised 2007-01
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Published in 'Documents de Treball CRE', January 2007, pages 1-31

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