In
this
seminar, Diane
Dupont, a
professor
in
the
Department
of
Economics
and
member
of
the
Environmental
Sustainability
Research
Centre
at
Brock
University,
presents
a
method
for
obtaining
public
preferences
for
improved
water
and
wastewater
management.
Register
today.
Light
refreshments
will
be
provided.
Key topics covered
This talk will describe a method to elicit public preferences for improved water and wastewater management. Specifically, it will examine the relative desirability of engineering versus green infrastructure approaches to having more reliable water supplies and to mitigating the likelihood of rainfall-caused flooding events. Results indicate a great deal of heterogeneity about prior beliefs on the likelihood of adverse events and that green infrastructure elicits a higher willingness-to-pay to deal with unreliable water supplies but not to support flooding infrastructure.
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