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Reduction of Urban Runoff Through Economic Incentives: Boulder, Colorado 1
Author(s) -
Thompson Stephen A.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1982.tb04539.x
Subject(s) - surface runoff , urbanization , externality , incentive , environmental science , urban runoff , hydrology (agriculture) , land use , natural resource economics , economics , stormwater , civil engineering , geology , engineering , geotechnical engineering , economic growth , microeconomics , ecology , biology
The problems of increased surface runoff which follow in step with urbanization can be conceptualized in terms of environmental economics. The private transformation of land from a permeable to an impermeable surface imposes the externality of increased surface runoff upon society as a whole and especially on those downstream. The city of Boulder, Colorado, has enacted an ordinance which attempts to internalize some of these external costs and at the same time decrease surface runoff from the urban environment.