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You, Me, and The Bay: Undergraduate Opportunities in AGNR. Jason Wong. Rain Gardens. The Project. Incentives and Hurdles to the Adoption of Rain Gardens in Maryland What factors affect people’s decision to install a rain garden? Awareness? Neighborhood effects? Financial incentives?
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You, Me, and The Bay: Undergraduate Opportunities in AGNR Jason Wong
The Project • Incentives and Hurdles to the Adoption of Rain Gardens in Maryland • What factors affect people’s decision to install a rain garden? • Awareness? • Neighborhood effects? • Financial incentives? • Aesthetics? • Care for the Bay? • Feasibility?
Questions faced • How can we obtain information on people’s preferences? • How much do we care to help restore the Bay? How much are we willing to pay? • What kinds of policies and incentive structures can we design to increase behavior, such as installing rain gardens, that helps the Bay?
Survey Study in Howard County • UMD Extension + Columbia Association + Chesapeake Bay Trust • Optimal incentive structure + factors in people’s willingness to install rain gardens • 20,000 + Surveys to be administered in Howard Country
Why is this important? • Informing Chesapeake Bay policy • Choosing effective incentive structures • Columbia’s RG cost share offerings, for instance • Increasing Bay-friendly behavior like rain gardens, other Low Impact Development • Meeting Bay TMDL goals
Undergraduate Engagement in AREC • Undergraduate Hands-on Training and Research • Conversations in Environmental Economics: Undergraduate Seminar • Maryland Day Family Fun Games & Environmental Economics