An Integrated Assessment Model for Valuing Water Quality Changes in the United States
美国环保局开发了综合评估模型，结合水文模型HAWQS和经济模型BenSPLASH，用于分析水质变化带来的效益，并在共和河流域进行了案例应用。
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) often requires expertise from environmental assessors, hydrologists, economists, and others to analyze the benefits of regional and national policy decisions related to changes in water quality. This led EPA to develop two models to form an Integrated Assessment Model (IAM): HAWQS is a web-based water quantity and quality modeling systems and BenSPLASH is a modeling platform for quantifying the economic benefits of changes in water quality. This paper discusses the development of the component models and applies HAWQS and BenSPLASH to a case study in the Republican River Basin.