Recreational Benefits from Water Quality Improvements: The Chicago Rivers Case
Eui-Gak Hwang
Gundars Rudzitis
DOI: 10.2190/U12X-KBB2-71HV-U52J
Abstract
There has been increasing attention paid to the recreational benefits from cleaning up waterways. This paper briefly reviews the theoretical and empirical aspects of estimating benefits from water quality improvements. Two pragmatic approaches for estimating river related recreational benefits are presented and applied to rivers in the Chicago Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.