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About the Authors
Kathryne Cleary is a senior research associate at Resources for the Future. Her work
at RFF focuses primarily on electricity policy with the Future of Power Initiative and
includes work on carbon pricing, electricity market design, and electrification. Outside
of her work on electricity, Cleary has worked on economic studies on the value of
information. Cleary holds an MEM with a focus on energy policy from the Yale School
of the Environment and a BA in economics and environmental policy from Boston
University.
Alan Krupnick is a senior fellow at Resources for the Future. Krupnick\'s research
focuses on analyzing environmental and energy issues, in particular the benefits, costs
and design of pollution and energy policies, both in the United States and abroad,
Krupnick\'s portfolio includes oil and gas issues, the value of information agenda
Covered by our VALUABLES initiative with NASA, and policies to bring down industrial
emissions of greenhouse gases.
Seth Villanueva is research analyst at Resources forthe Future. He graduated from UC
Santa Barbara in 2019 with a BA in economics and a minor in mathematics. At UCSB，
Seth worked as a Gretler Research Fellow under Professor Olivier Deschenes to study
economic outcomes related to the scaling of wind power generation. Seth\'s current
projects at RFF focus on the valuation of climate models and resource management
services, as well as the maintaining of RFF\'s annual Global Energy Outlook report.
Alexandra Thompson is senior research associate and GlIS research coordinator at
Resources forthe Future. Thompson brings a distinctive skillset to RFF through her
training in urban and regional planning. Her graduate work on local ecosystem service
provision through an intersection of traditional planning, environmental economics, and
spatial analysis gives her a unique perspective on problem solving through research.
Her work seeks to improve the understanding of complex environmental problems
through the creative use and analysis of spatial data. Thompson\'s current research
includes the valuation of remotely sensed data, impacts of oil and gas development on
water use, invasive species monitoring and control, cross-boundary management of
environmental challenges, sea level rise impacts, and more.
Resources forthe FutureAcknowledgements
We would like to thank first the sponsors and our partners and reviewers from the
Office for Coastal Management at NOAA: Nicholas (Miki) Schmidt, division chief，
Science and Geospatial Services; Kate Quigley economist and our project manager;
Lori Cary-Kothera, who gave us the website data that Alex analyzed; and Jeff Adkins，
economist. In connection with the case studies, we thank Chase Glisson and Morgan
Pitts from the Jackson County Utility Authority who were so generous with their time
and knowledge in helping us research the Jackson, Mississippi case study and the
many, many Digital Coast users and contributors from Hawaii to New Jersey to Florida
and elsewhere who helped us understand the contributions that the Digital Coast
makes to their professional lives. At RFF, we thank Margaret Walls for her good counsel.
Cover photo: Mike Phillips / Shutterstock
About RFF
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Washingtomn, DC. Its mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource
decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement. RFF is
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solutions leading to a healthy environment and a thriving economy.
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The Societal Value of the Digital CoastAbstract
The Digital Coast is a platform run by NOAA\'s Office for Coastal Management (OCM)
that is composed of thousands of datasets, tools, trainings, and stories related to
improving coastal management. The Digital Coast is publicly funded, which makes
it difficult to value. This report employs valuation techniques to estimate the value
the platform affords its users in the form of improved decisions regarding coastal
management and to estimate the program\'s benefits versus its costs of operation. We
highlight the various categories of typical uses of the Digital Coast platform, perform
aliterature review of how these might contribute to societal benefits, conduct website
analytics to provide a breakdown of various tools and datasets by category and
partner type, and perform two case studies. Our first case study looks at the use of
two Digital Coast products in Jackson, Mississippi, to relocate wastewater treatment
plants to higher ground based on future flood risks. We estimate that this onetime
use of Digital Coast resources yielded societal benefits of S11 million to $2.2 million in
2014S. Given that Digital Coast resources, particularly the Sea Level Rise Viewer are
used thousands of times annually we estimate that the true benefits of the platform
are many times higher than illustrated by this case study. Our second case study
estimates participants\' expected willingness to pay for two trainings available to the
private sector through the Digital Coast program. We find that individual trainings are
worth approximately S$27 to S146 per participant per hour. Extrapolating this to all the
in-person trainings offered by the Digital Coast Academy yields estimated societal
benefits of S18 million to $9.7 million annually.
Resources forthe Future
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