Controlling for these influencing factors, the estimated non-market benefits of river restoration policy scenarios appear to be transferable between Hungary and Romania, but not between Austria and Hungary and Austria and Romania.
Given the role of location specific factors such as differences in population density and degree of urbanization, the use of a generally applicable research design seems a necessary, but insufficient precondition to reduce transfer errors when applying existing estimates of the non-market benefits of river restoration from the international literature to new river restoration contexts.
Although the government is happy to talk up the benefits of river-linking – such as providing up to 45GW of new electricity capacity, and a better supply of water for irrigation in about 120m acres of land, as well as flood control – it is strangely hushed on the subject of execution.
The objective of this paper is to estimate the non-market benefits of ecological river restoration and test their transferability across the second largest river basin in Europe.
Restoring fish populations would boost the economic benefits of the river Severn, which already sees recreational and commercial fishing activities bring in more than £15m a year.
We also catch fish, crab and oysters, so for us to keep enjoying the benefits of the river, we fully understand that, as farmers, we're part of the solution to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.
The neighboring Occoneechee and Shakori tribes reaped the benefits of the river likewise.
The project is designed in a way that it is environmentally friend and to optimize the benefit of the Nile river; no down stream country would be adversely affected.
Since a corps' study determined that Orange County received 95% of the benefit of the All-River Plan, some have argued that it should pay 95% of the local portion.
While those may have been attempts to control the river for the benefit of business and commerce it also denied the delta the soil that flowed down the river and continually renewed the delta and costal areas.
