Monday, January 13, 2020

The Impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms and E. coli on Recreational Behavior in Lake Erie

Abstract:
This paper examines simultaneously the effect of E. coli and harmful algal blooms on recreational behavior using survey data collected from Ohio recreators who visited Lake Erie during the summer of 2016. Using simulation based on latent class models of recreation choice, we find beachgoers and recreational anglers would lose in aggregate $7.7 million and $69.1 million, respectively, each year if water quality conditions were to become so poor that Lake Erie’s western basin were closed. Finally, we recover heterogeneity in recreators’ aversion toward algae and Escherichia coli, with beachgoers more averse to E. coli and anglers more averse to algae.
Eerie Blooms in Lake Erie
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145453/eerie-blooms-in-lake-erie
by David Wolf 1, Wei Chen 2, Sathya Gopalakrishnan 3, Timothy Haab 4 and H. Allen Klaiber 5
1. Assistant professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire; wolfdm@uwec.edu
2. Assistant professor, School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, Beijing, PR China; chen.4863@osu.edu
3. Associate professor, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, Columbus; gopalakrishnan.27@osu.edu
Professor, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, Columbus; haab.1@osu.edu
5, Professor, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, Columbus; klaiber.16@osu.edu
http://le.uwpress.org/content/95/4/455.abstract
Land Economics http://le.uwpress.org/ via University of Wisconsin Press http://www.uwpress.org/
Volume 95, Number 4; November 1, 2019; pages 455-472

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