Land Economics articles from August 1999

Land Economics archives from August 1999

Deforestation and Ownership: Evidence from Historical Accounts and Contemporary Data.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION The factors that cause forests to advance or decline are assessed using a source of information that economists have largely overlooked, historical accounts of forest cover changes in specific regions of the world and the...

Minimum Cost Strategies for Sequestering Carbon in Forests.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Sequestering carbon in forests and forest products is a potentially useful mechanism in global efforts to offset expanding greenhouse gas emissions (see, for example, United Nations 1992). In the United States, the Clinton...

Threshold Rules for Funding Environmental Mandates: Accountability and the Unfunded Mandate Reform Act.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Within the last few years, a debate has emerged regarding whether the federal government should be allowed to impose mandates on state (or local) governments without providing the funds necessary to implement those...

Assessing the Short-Run Economic Cost of Environmental Constraints on Hydropower Operations at Glen Canyon Dam.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Hydropower plants produce electricity without burning fossil fuels and producing air pollution and are sometimes thought of as environmentally benign. In fact, large hydropower facilities have blocked the spawning of...

Transaction Costs of Policies to Reduce Agricultural Phosphorous Pollution in the Minnesota River.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Nonpoint source pollution control is a difficult problem in theory and in practice. The inability to observe emissions at reasonable cost means that emission taxes and standards are difficult if not impossible to implement....

Impacts of Land Development Charges.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION A problem of long standing in discussions of land development, namely how government charges affect the land development process, is revisited in this article. The analysis focuses on one particular form of development...

The Effect of Agricultural Policy on Farmland Values.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION The transfer efficiency of an agricultural support program is usually measured by its effectiveness in distributing benefits within the agri-food sector. While most farm programs are directed at farmers in terms of income...

Estimating Irrigation Water Value Using Hedonic Price Analysis: A Case Study in Malheur County, Oregon.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION The demand for water in the western United States is growing not only in magnitude, but also in variety. Growing cities seek greater volumes to satisfy new customers, water-based recreation is increasing, and pressures are...

Testing for Temporal Reliability in Contingent Valuation with Time for Changes in Factors Affecting Demand.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Economic analysis of environmental policy often must employ non-market estimates of benefits in order to determine the efficiency of various alternatives. Contingent valuation is a method developed to estimate the economic...

Household Labor Market Choices and the Demand for Recreation.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION In the text book allocation of time, individuals divide their time between labor and leisure based on a constant wage rate. These models break down when the wage rate depends on the amount of time allocated to work or when...

Do Reminders of Substitutes and Budget Constraints Influence Contingent Valuation Estimates? Another Comment.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Loomis, Gonzalez-Caban, and Gregory (1994; hereafter LGG) tested the NOAA panel (Arrow et al. 1993) recommendation to include substitute and budget constraint reminders in contingent markets. Their study of old-growth...

Do Reminders of Substitutes and Budget Constraints Influence Contingent Valuation Estimates? Reply to Another Comment.
August 1, 1999... Kotchen and Reiling (hereafter KR) conduct a replication of the Loomis, Gonzalez-Caban, and Gregory (1994) test of the NOAA panel's (Arrow et al. 1993) recommendation that reminders of substitutes and budget constraints be included in...