@article{ref1,
title="Costs of abandoned coal mine reclamation and associated recreation benefits in Ohio",
journal="Journal of environmental management",
year="2012",
author="Mishra, Shruti K. and Hitzhusen, Frederick J. and Sohngen, Brent L. and Guldmann, Jean-Michel",
volume="100",
number="",
pages="52-58",
abstract="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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0301-4797",
doi="10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.01.021",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.01.021"
}