Benefit-Cost Analysis for Water System Planning

✍ Scribed by Charles W. Howe(auth.)

• Publisher: by the American Geophysical Union.
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 151
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

About The Product

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Water Resources Monograph Series.

This is a small book on a very large topic: water resource system planning. The term water resource system as used here means a combination of structural and nonstructural measures, including rules of operation, for transforming stocks or flows of water into more useful outputs of water, water services, or water-related products. Examples of these outputs would include municipal water supply, flood control, waste disposal and water quality management, navigation, irrigation, and hydroelectric power. Both the original water inputs and the outputs are characterized by quantity, quality, time, and place.

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–8):
Chapter 2 The Accounting Stance (pages 9–13):
Chapter 3 Multiple Objective Planning (pages 15–34):
Chapter 4 Measurement of Economic Efficiency Benefits and Costs (pages 35–61):
Chapter 5 Comparison of Benefits and Costs Over Time (pages 63–82):
Chapter 6 Criteria for Project Design and Selection (pages 83–103):
Chapter 7 Selected Empirical Studies (pages 105–139):

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
Foreword......Page 3
Preface......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Point of View......Page 12
General Economic Problem: Scarcity......Page 14
Distribution of Project Benefits and Costs among Different Groups......Page 17
Relevance and Irrelevance of Financing Arrangements......Page 18
With-Without Criterion: The Basic Reference Point......Page 19
2 The Accounting Stance......Page 20
Types of Benefits and Costs to be Used in Planning
......Page 25
Objectives Other Than National Economic Efficiency......Page 29
Procedures for Incorporating Multiple Objectives in Project Design and Selection
......Page 40
Examples of Project Benefits and Costs
......Page 45
Measurement of Benefits and Costs Comparable in Monetary Dollar Terms
......Page 52
Simulation of Market Prices
......Page 57
Concept and Measurement of Costs
......Page 60
Appropriateness of Existing Market Prices as Measures of Benefits and Costs
......Page 63
Handling of Price Changes Over Time
......Page 65
Use of the Cost of the Best Alternative Project as a Measure of Benefits
......Page 66
Issue of Secondary Benefits and Costs
......Page 69
Managerial Analysis of a
Project......Page 71
5 Comparison of Benefits and Costs Over Time
......Page 72
Determination of the Discount Rate......Page 74
Benefit and Cost Patterns Over Time
......Page 79
Handling of Risk
......Page 82
Appropriate Length of the Planning Period
......Page 88
Appendix : Impact of General Domestic in Flationon the Present Value of Net Benefits
......Page 89
Consideration of a Broad Range of Alternatives
......Page 92
Rules for Optimum Project Design
......Page 95
Rules for Optimum Selection of Projects
......Page 101
Use of Ex Post Analyses
......Page 103
Role of Pricing
......Page 104
Appendix: A Simplified Staging Problem......Page 109
7 Selected Empirical Studies
......Page 113
Application of Multiple Objective Planning......Page 114
Measurement of Environmental Impacts......Page 129
Benefits from Water Quality Improvement......Page 134
Recreation Benefits from Water Quality Improvement......Page 139
Management and Financing of Water Quality Programs......Page 144
References......Page 148