caa a22 4500 46902996X CHVBK 20180323132740.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00402654 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00402654 Economics of ground-water quality monitoring: A survey of experts [Elektronische Daten] [R. Rajagopal, Graham Tobin] The cost of a monitoring program can be easily ascertained in terms of the expenditures incurred for such items as personnel, supplies, field visits, instrumentation and laboratory analyses. The benefits of a monitoring program, however, cannot be easily evaluated due to the diversity of objectives for which monitoring programs are initiated and operated. The case study and the results of the follow-up exploratory survey reported in this paper were intended to capture the objective as well as the subjective reasons employed by a group of experts in responding to selected socio-economic questions related to the design of monitoring programs. Ninety-seven individuals, through a formal questionnaire, participated in the survey. They showed definite preferences, although there was some variability in responses due to such factors as residential status, institutional affiliation, education, and the length of professional experience. It was clear that the respondents favored the inclusion of cost-effectiveness criteria in monitoring programs; were ambivalent to the idea of initiating a regulatory program to monitor the wells of a large number of private owners; and if such a program were to be initiated they recommended that individual well owners share the bulk of the financial burden. Preliminary results from such exploratory surveys can lead to the framing of insightful research questions or hypotheses for further evaluation. Confirmatory testing of such questions or hypotheses in real world settings is a valuable area for further research. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Rajagopal R. Department of Geography and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa, Iowa, USA aut Tobin Graham Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, USA aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 22/1(1992-07-01), 39-56 0167-6369 22:1<39 1992 22 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00402654 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00402654 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rajagopal R. Department of Geography and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa, Iowa, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tobin Graham Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 22/1(1992-07-01), 39-56 0167-6369 22:1<39 1992 22 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer