Land Economics articles from February 1994

Land Economics archives from February 1994

Using a 'hybrid' approach to model oil and gas supply: a case study of the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf. (includes appendices)
February 1, 1994... Economics and Management Science 4 (Autumn):454-98. Mansvelt-Beck, Frederik W., and Karl M. Wiig. 1977. The Economics of Offshore Oil and Gas Supplies. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company. McCray, Arthur W. 1975. Petroleum Evaluations and...

Technical change in agriculture and land degradation in developing countries: a general equilibrium analysis.
February 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Rapid land degradation in developing countries, particularly that caused by soil erosion in sloping uplands, has been the source of much concern in recent years.(1) This concern has been reflected in substantial increases in...

Price formation in farm land markets.
February 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Policies that make farm land markets more efficient can promote farmer adjustment to changing conditions and help to achieve social goals for land use. Most analyses of these markets use secondary data to estimate a first-stage...

Amenity benefits and the optimal allocation of land.
February 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Over the last several decades, population and economic growth in the United States have resulted in the conversion of a significant amount of agricultural land to urban uses. In many areas of the country, the diminishing...

Can utility commissions improve on environmental regulations?
February 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Many state Public Utility Commissions (PUCs) are convinced that they should do something about the environmental impacts of the electric utilities they regulate. Some proponents of this idea argue that PUCs must act because...

Land retirement as a tool for reducing agricultural nonpoint source pollution. (includes appendix)
February 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Sediment, chemicals, and other materials originating on fields, forests, streets, and other nonpoint sources are the cause of many of the remaining water quality problems in the United States. Nonpoint source (NPS) pollution is...

A difficulty with the travel cost method.
February 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION The research program to estimate recreation benefits via the travel cost method, TCM (Hotelling 1949; Clawson 1959; Bockstael, McConnell, and Strand 1991), has established an empirically robust result: site visitation and...

Consequences of using different question formats in contingent valuation: a Monte Carlo study.
February 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION As with any survey method, the validity of contingent valuation estimates depends on the format of the questionnaire. To assess the value of nonmarket goods, researchers using the contingent valuation method (CVM) have employed...