Valuing potential groundwater protection benefits

Crocker, Thomas D.; Forster, Bruce A.; Shogren, Jason F.

doi:10.1029/90wr02135

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“…Subjective inference about disease risk is often based on sparse information from direct observation, indirect covariates, and broader belief contexts, and plays an important role in the perceived marginal value of risk-reducing management practices (Tversky and Kahneman, 1973; Johnson et al , 1993; Mittal and Ross, 1998; McNamara et al , 2006; Clark, 2013; Cole et al , 2013). Although the role of perceptions in avoidance behavior has been well documented in economics (Courant and Porter, 1981; Crocker et al , 1991; Dickie and Gerking, 1996; Ahamad, 2016), the evidence of the impact of disease risk perceptions on disease mitigation and control strategies such as vaccination and antimicrobial use is scant.…”

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Relationships between livestock grazing practices, disease risk, and antimicrobial use among East African Agropastoralists

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Livestock health is economically important for agropastoral households whose wealth is held partly as livestock. Households can invest in disease prevention and treatment, but livestock disease risk is also affected by grazing practices that result in inter-herd contact and disease transmission in regions with endemic communicable diseases. This paper examines the relationships between communal grazing and antimicrobial use in Maasai, Chagga and Arusha households in northern Tanzania. We develop a theoretical model of the economic connection between communal grazing, disease transmission risk, risk perceptions, and antimicrobial use, and derive testable hypotheses about these connections. Regression results suggest that history of disease and communal grazing are associated with higher subjective disease risk and greater antimicrobial use. We discuss the implications of these results in light of the potential for relatively high inter-herd disease transmission rates among communal grazers and potential contributions to antimicrobial resistance due to antimicrobial use.

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Relationships between livestock grazing practices, disease risk, and antimicrobial use among East African Agropastoralists

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“…Section 6 concludes. Altaf, et al (1992) focused on WTP for safe drinking water while Crocker, et al (1991) provide a theoretical framework for valuing the benefits of preventing ground water contamination which shows the importance of the risk and location of contamination, the exposed population, and risk perceptions. Chowdhury (1999) uses the contingent valuation method to estimate Dhaka Slum-dwellers willingness to pay for safe drinking water.…”

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Household’s Willingness to Pay for Safe Drinking Water: A Case Study of Abbottabad District

Haq¹,

Mustafa²,

Ahmad³

2022

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“…However, it is not certain whether groundwater is sufficiently available to cater for future water needs in the city. This reiterates the fact that groundwater accounts for over 97% of the accessible global freshwater resources, and therefore it is important to have a framework for valuing the benefits of preventing groundwater contamination after assessing the importance of the risk and risk perception of the exposed population as suggested by [35]. Moreover, the study revealed that most people in Dar es Salaam use above average amount of water (i.e., 40 L per person per day) as compared to other places in sub-Saharan Africa [29].…”

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Quantification of Groundwater Exploitation and Assessment of Water Quality Risk Perception in the Dar Es Salaam Quaternary Aquifer, Tanzania

Mussa

Mjemah

Walraevens

2019

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This study quantified groundwater exploitation and assessed water quality risk perception in the Dar es Salaam quaternary aquifer through a socio-economic survey. Annual total groundwater exploitation was estimated, using the daily per capita consumption of groundwater derived from the household survey. A logistic regression analysis was performed to ascertain the influence of sex, marital status, education level, employment, income, and cost of water on groundwater quality risk perception. It was revealed that most residents of Dar es Salaam use groundwater as a main source of water supply. The results of this study further showed that 78% consider groundwater as a reliable source. Averting strategies for insufficient quantity of groundwater consist of minimizing less necessary water uses, while for poor quality, buying bottled water and water treatment by boiling and using chemicals. The chance for water quality risk perception is 0.205 times greater for married than unmarried household heads, and it is 623 times higher for employed versus unemployed household heads. To get an overall view of the importance of groundwater for domestic needs in Dar es Salaam it is imperative to combine a time series data of groundwater and surface water exploitation.

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Valuing potential groundwater protection benefits

Cited by 27 publications

References 22 publications

Relationships between livestock grazing practices, disease risk, and antimicrobial use among East African Agropastoralists

Relationships between livestock grazing practices, disease risk, and antimicrobial use among East African Agropastoralists

Household’s Willingness to Pay for Safe Drinking Water: A Case Study of Abbottabad District

Quantification of Groundwater Exploitation and Assessment of Water Quality Risk Perception in the Dar Es Salaam Quaternary Aquifer, Tanzania

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