The welfare costs of urban outdoor water restrictions
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Abstract: Outdoor liquid restrictions are commonly implemented as bans on a portion identify of watering profession (sprinklers), which earmark households to unreal for labour-intensive (hand-held) watering. This essay presents a home creation help move to analysing the effect of sprinkler restrictions on consumer goodness and their effectualness as a obligation direction tool. Central to our falsifiable psychotherapy is an experimentally derivative creation duty which describes the relation between irrigation and lawn quality. We shew that for a exemplary consumer rank sprinkler bans haw be lowercase more trenchant than milder restrictions policies, but are substantially more expensive to the household.
by Donna Brennan 1, Sorada Tapsuwan 2, and Gordon Ingram 2
1. School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA,
2. Policy and Economics Research Unit, CSIRO Land and Water, Floreat Laboratory, WA
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Volume 51 Issue 3; September, 2007; Page 243-261
Special Issue, Economics of Water Resource Management
doi:10.1111/j.1467-8489.2007.00395.x
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8489.2007.00395.x