Land Economics articles from August 1996

Land Economics archives from August 1996

Economic assessment of the Regional Clean Air Incentives Market: a new emissions trading program for Los Angeles. (includes appendix)
August 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) has adopted an emissions trading program as a means of achieving further emission reductions from stationary sources. The Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM)...

Cross-media pollution: responses to restrictions on chlorinated solvent releases.
August 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION Pollution control policy in the U.S. has traditionally been designed in a fragmented manner. Policy goals and instruments are chosen separately for emissions into air and water and for management of hazardous waste. However,...

Estimating the supply of conservation goods in Britain: a comparison of the financial efficiency of two policy instruments.
August 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION The management of land for primary production in the U.K. is driven mainly by the objectives of farmers and foresters with regard to the level and stability of their incomes. Management reflects expected prices and costs during...

Scarcity, resource price uncertainty, and economic growth.
August 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION Given the historical growth in the demand for material goods coupled with the apparent fixity of the natural resource base, it is not surprising that periodically the implications of resource availability for economic...

Identifying "spread" versus "backwash" effects in regional economic areas: a density functions approach. (includes appendices)
August 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION Recent changes in industrial structures, organization, regulations, and markets favor the location of economic activity in metropolitan areas over rural communities. For example, the principal growth sectors in the new global...

Timber production factor shares by forest tenancy group.
August 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION Forest land management activities are integrated into regional economies through use of factor resources (land, labor, and capital), returns to factor resource owners, and forward-linked value-added industries. An understanding...

Wage-homestead tenancies: technological dualism and tenant household size.
August 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION The last twenty years have seen the emergence of an extensive literature examining tenancy in developing countries. Though the bulk of this literature is devoted to sharecropping,(1) there are numerous other forms of tenancy...

Valuing public goods: discrete versus continuous contingent-valuation responses. (includes appendix)
August 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION Economic analyses of environmental issues have maintained a high profile in the national policy arena through the 1970s, 1980s, and into the 1990s (Cropper and Oates 1992). Throughout this period economists have continued to...

Difference between continuous and discrete contingent value estimates.
August 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION The contingent valuation (CV) method has become increasingly used to measure values associated with public and nonmarket goods. Indeed, where individual preferences over the level of provision of a nonmarket good are not tied...