Response to ‘Discussion of the paper “Cost effective policies for alternative distributions of stochastic water pollution” by Gren, Destouni and Tempone’ by Kampas and Adamidis |
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Authors: | Georgia Destouni Ing-Marie Gren |
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Affiliation: | aDepartment of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden;bDepartment of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7013, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden |
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Abstract: | The note by Kampas and Adamidis (2004; KA) argues for a series of limitations in the paper by [Gren, I.-M., Destouni, G., Tempone R., 2002. Cost effective policies for alternative distributions of stochastic water pollution. Journal of Environmental Management, 66, 145–157.]. We systematically go through and reply to the arguments made by KA, showing that they are all based on misunderstanding of the pollutant load quantities involved in the GDT study and of the scope and purpose of the study. Specifically, the KA arguments are critically based on the invalid assumption of log-normality in individual, basin-scale annual pollutant loads, which are the basic pollutant transport quantities involved in the GDT study. We show that GDT never made, or had physical reason to make any such assumption, whereby the following KA arguments become irrelevant. |
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Keywords: | Stochastic water pollution KA arguments Cost effectiveness |
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