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Costs of abandoned coal mine reclamation and associated recreation benefits in Ohio
Ist Teil von
Journal of environmental management, 2012-06, Vol.100, p.52-58
Ort / Verlag
Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
Two hundred years of coal mining in Ohio have degraded land and water resources, imposing social costs on its citizens. An interdisciplinary approach employing hydrology, geographic information systems, and a recreation visitation function model, is used to estimate the damages from upstream coal mining to lakes in Ohio. The estimated recreational damages to five of the coal-mining-impacted lakes, using dissolved sulfate as coal-mining-impact indicator, amount to $21 Million per year. Post-reclamation recreational benefits from reducing sulfate concentrations by 6.5% and 15% in the five impacted lakes were estimated to range from $1.89 to $4.92 Million per year, with a net present value ranging from $14.56 Million to $37.79 Million. A benefit costs analysis (BCA) of recreational benefits and coal mine reclamation costs provides some evidence for potential Pareto improvement by investing limited resources in reclamation projects.
► We estimated coal-mining damages using hydrology, GIS, and environmental economics. ► Visitation function and benefit transfer were used to quantify coal-mining damages. ► Societal benefits from restoring upstream coal mines were quantified. ► Benefit cost analysis was used to identify potential Pareto improvement projects.