Economic valuation of environmental benefits from wastewater treatment processes: An empirical approach for Spain

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 953-957

  Hernández Sancho, Francesc ^a   Molinos Senante, María ^a   Sala Garrido, Ramón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distance functions; Economic valuation; Environmental benefits; Shadow prices; Undesirable outputs; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; ECONOMIC VALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; SHADOW PRICE; SHADOW PRICES;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COSTS; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION METHOD; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; PROPERTY RIGHTS; VALUATION; WASTEWATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN UNION; SPAIN; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 71849108505     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.10.028     Document Type: Article

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