Community Goals - Management Opportunities: An Approach to Flood Plain Management

摘要

The publication presents a methodology for estimating first-round local effects related to the change in the availability of water for supply purposes or recreation. It developes estimates of demand for reservoir recreation and estimates the change in structural unemployment resulting from changes in output. It evaluates the differences in regional multiplier values and propose a refinement in regional multiplier estimates; it integrates the various research papers and presents a case for a selected strategy for estimating those national income benefits to water resource development in excess of direct output valued in terms of the users willingness to pay.