@article{vanBueren:123734,
      recid = {123734},
      author = {van Bueren, Martin and Pannell, David J. and Hodgson, G.},
      title = {Mapping the regional benefits and costs of strategies for   controlling dryland salinity},
      address = {2000-01},
      number = {411-2016-25706},
      pages = {13},
      year = {2000},
      abstract = {Hydrologists predict that salinity in the agricultural  region of Western Australia will
eventually affect an  average of 30 percent of the landscape if nothing is done  to
reduce current levels of recharge. The scale of tree  planting and other works thought
to be required for  controlling salinity represent a radical departure from the  traditional
agricultural system practised in WA. The  objective of the research presented in this
paper was to  assess whether a large investment in salinity control is  warranted at a
regional level and, if so, who are the  winners and losers. A geographic information
system (GIS),  together with maps of predicted salinity, were used to  facilitate the
economic analysis. The GIS served as a  systematic way of identifying and
quantifying the areas of  agricultural land and off-farm public assets that are at  risk
from salinity. Area statistics from the GIS were  coupled to a spreadsheet model that
simulated costs and  benefits over a 20 year period. Net present values were  then
passed back to the GIS for mapping. The procedure  described in this paper is a useful
way to gain an initial  appraisal of the relative size and spatial distribution of  economic
impacts associated with a particular control  program.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/123734},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.123734},
}