Estimating the value of water-use efficiency in the Intermountain West
"Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of water-efficiency programs can be difficult, because not all the benefits are easily quantified. This report presents an economic framework based on two tools from the California Urban Water Conservation Council to estimate the avoided costs and environmenta...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Monica, CA
Rand Corp.
2008, 2008
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| Series: | Technical report
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Denver water case study
- Case-study methodology
- Results
- Summary and conclusions
- Appendix A: Avoided-cost model
- Appendix B: Environmental-benefit modeling
- Appendix C: Impact of supply and demand changes on long-run avoided costs
- Appendix D: Efficiency-program cost estimates
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-69)