CONTENTS List of Figures ix List of Tables xi List of Appendices xvi List of Contributors xvii Preface xxi Chapter 1: Introduction 1 1.1. About the Book 1 1.2. Environmental Valuation in South Asia 2 1.3. Valuation Methods 4 1.4. Implementing Full Cost Pricing in Agrarian Settings 6 1.5. Accounting for Linked Ecological and Social Systems 8 1.6. Improved Health Outcomes 10 1.7. Micro to Macro: Valuation and Better Measures of Sustainable Development 12 1.8. Increasing Revenues through Better Valuation 13 1.9. Challenges to Environmental Valuation in Developing Countries 14 Chapter 2: Environmental Valuation: A Review of Methods 19 A.K. Haque, M.N. Murty and P. Shyamsundar 2.1. Environmental Resources and Economic Valuation 19 2.2. Environmental Values 20 2.3. Measuring Environmental Values and Policy Changes 22 2.4. Valuation Methods 23 2.5. Conclusion 32 Chapter 3: Valuing the Environment as a Production Input 36 Jeffrey R. Vincent 36 3.1. Introduction 36 3.2. Production Function 38 3.3. Cost Function 46 3.4. Profit Function 54 3.5. Empirical Implications 57 3.6. Implications of Relaxing Key Assumptions 64 3.7. Example: Rainfall and Rice in India 70 Chapter 4: Should Shrimp Farmers Pay Paddy Farmers?: The Challenges of Examining Salinization Externalities in South India 79 L, Vmamaheswari, K. Omar Hattab, P. Nasurudeen and P. Selvaraj 4.1. Introduction 79 4.2. Study Area 80 4.3. Data 82 4.4. Homogeneity of Paddy Villages 84 4.5. Soil Characteristics 84 4.6. Comparing Paddy Cultivation 87 4.7. Estimation of Externality Cost 88 4.8. Factors Causing Soil Salinity 90 4.9. Production Function Analysis 91 4.10. Welfare Gains from Salinity Reduction 95 4.11. Conclusion 96 Chapter 5: Evaluating Gains from De-Eutrophication of the Dutch Canal in Sri Lanka 99 W.R. Rohitha 5.1. Introduction 99 5.2. Study Area and Data 5.3. Water Quality Valuation Techniques 5.4. Analysis of Results 5.5. Conclusion and Policy Implications Chapter 6: Pesticide Productivity and Vegetable Farming in Nepal 115 Ratna Kumar Jha and Adhrit Prasad Regmi 6.1. Introduction 115 6.2. Pesticide Use in Agriculture: A Review 118 6.3. Study Area and Data 120 6.4. Theory and Methods 123 6.5. Results and Discussion 127 6.6. Conclusions and Policy Recommendations 135 Chapter 7: Forests, Hydrological Services, and Agricultural Income: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India 141 Sharachchandra Lele, Iswar Patil, Shrinivas Badiger, Ajit Menon and Rajeev Kumar 7.1. Introduction 141 7.2. Forest Ecosystems, Watershed Services and Social Well-being: the Existing Literature 142 7.3. Framework and Objectives 145 7.4. Study Site: Ecological, Social and Agro-hydrological Characteristics 146 7.5. Relationship between Rainfall, Catchment Response and Tank Filling 151 7.6. Socio-economic Data Collection and Sampling 155 7.7. Estimating Agricultural Incomes and Wage Employment Under Alternative Hydrological Scenarios 157 7.8. Likely Impacts of Changes in Catchment Vegetation on Agricultural Incomes and Wage Employment in the Tank Command 162 7.9. Conclusions and Implications 164 Chapter 8: Can Mangroves Minimize Property Loss during Big Storms?: An Analysis of House Damages due to the Super Cyclone in Orissa 170 Saudamini Das 8.1. Introduction 170 8.2. Studies on Valuing the Storm Protection role of Coastal Forests 172 8.3. Study Area 174 8.4. Methodology 175 8.5. Data 184 8.6. Results and Discussion 188 8.7. Conclusions and Policy Recommendations 200 Chapter 9: Valuation of Recreational Amenities from Environmental Resources: The Case of Two National Parks in Northern Pakistan 211 Himayatullah Khan 9.1. Introduction 211 9.2. Studying two Parks in Pakistan 213 9.3. Research Methods 214 9.4. Results and Discussion 222 9.5. Conclusions and Policy Implications 228 Chapter 10: Valuing the Land of Tigers: What Indian Visitors Reveal 232 Indrila Guha and Santadas Ghosh 10.1. Introduction 232 10.2. Studies Estimating Recreational Value 234 10.3. Methodology for ZTCM 235 10.4. Nature of a Sundarban Tour 237 10.5. Survey Design and Sampling 240 10.6. Data Exploration: Descriptive Statistics 241 10.7. Empirical Estimates 248 10.8. Conclusion and Policy Implications 253 Chapter 11: Estimating Welfare Losses from Urban Air Pollution using Panel Data from Household Health Diaries 256 Usha Gupta 11.1. Introduction 256 11.2. Study Site 258 11.3. Data Sources and Survey Design 260 11.4. Methodology 262 11.5. Estimating Household Health Production Function Model 264 11.6. Results 268 11.7. Conclusion 272 Chapter 12: Children in the Slums of Dhaka: Diarrhoea Prevalence and its Implications 276 M. Jahangir Alam 12.1. Introduction 276 12.2. Determinants and Costs of Child Diarrhoea 278 12.3. Study Area and Sampling 281 12.4. Methods of Estimation 283 12.5. Results and Discussion 290 12.6. Cost and Sensitivity Analysis of Child Diarrhoea 296 12.7. Conclusions and Policy Recommendations 301 Chapter 13: Red Wells, Green Wells and the Costs of Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh 306 M. Zakir Hossain Khan and A.K. Enamul Haque 13.1. Introduction 306 13.2. Background 307 13.3. Methods 309 13.4. Results 317 13.5. Discussions and Conclusions 323 Chapter 14: Air Quality and Cement Production: Examining the Implications of Point Source Pollution in Sri Lanka 328 Cyril Bogahawatte and Janaranjana Herath 14.1. Introduction 328 14.2. Air Pollution and Health Impacts 329 14.3. Study area 331 14.4. Data 332 14.5. Methodology and Estimation 336 14.6. Results and Discussion 341 14.7. Conclusions and Policy Implications 345 Chapter 15: Revisiting the Need for Improved Stoves: Estimating Health, Time and Carbon Benefits 348 Min Bikram Malla Thakuri 15.1. Introduction 348 15.2. Indoor Air Pollution Problem in Developing Countries: A Review 349 15.3. Study Area and Data 353 15.4. Methodology 355 15.5. Results and Discussion 362 15.6. Conclusions and Recommendations 374 Chapter 16: Benefits from Reduced Air Pollution in Delhi and Kolkata: A Hedonic Property Price Approach 380 M.N. Murty, S.C. Gulati and Avishek Banerjee 16.1. Introduction 380 16.2. The Hedonic Price Model and Choice of Functional Forms 382 16.3. Data Sources and Design of Household Survey 386 16.4. Model for Estimation and Measurement of Variables 387 16.5. Estimates of Hedonic Property Value Model with Alternative Functional Forms 394 16.6. Inverse Demand Functions for Environmental Quality and Welfare Gains from Reduced Air Pollution 403 16.7. Conclusion 406 Chapter 17: The Value of Statistical Life 412 K. R. Shanmugam and S. Madheswaran 17.1. Introduction 412 17.2. Methodology 414 17.3. Econometric Specification of the Hedonic Wage Function 418 17.4. Estimation Issues 418 17.5. Empirical Analysis 426 17.6. Concluding Remarks 437 Chapter 18: An Assessment of Demand for Improved Household Water Supply in Southwest Sri Lanka 444 Herath Gunatilake, Jui-Chen Yang, Subhrendu Pattanayak and Caroline van den Berg 18.1. Introduction 444 18.2. Use of the CV Method to Measure WTP 446 18.3. Planning, Design and Administering the Survey 448 18.4. Results 461 18.5. Conclusion 470 Index 475