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Rights to the River: Implementing A Social Cost-Benefit Analysis in the United States Hydropower Relicensing Process

Private hydropower operations across the United States are utilizing a public resource, rivers, for power production benefits. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulates river use through a relicensing procedure that occurs every thirty or fifty years through a cost-benefit analysis framework to determine the best public use of the river. This thesis explores the structure of the current cost-benefit analysis and the effects of timing, public participation and valuation of ecosystem services in the final relicensing decision, and recommends the use of a social cost-benefit framework to distribute the natural resource benefits rivers provide more equally and give fair weight to ecosystem benefits in a market-driven process.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:CLAREMONT/oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:scripps_theses-2395
Date01 January 2019
CreatorsWendle, Claire
PublisherScholarship @ Claremont
Source SetsClaremont Colleges
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceScripps Senior Theses
Rights© 2019 Claire C Wendle

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