Land Economics articles from February 1995

Land Economics archives from February 1995

On the meaning of economic efficiency in policy analysis.
February 1, 1995... I. ON THE MEANING OF ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY IN POLICY ANALYSIS Along with the increasing relevance of applied welfare (policy) analysis over the past few decades, an important transition in the economist's perception of economic efficiency has...

Land and poverty in the United States: insights and oversights.
February 1, 1995... Sakolski, Aaron M. 1957. Land Tenure and Land Taxation in America. New York: R. Schalkenback Foundation. Salamon, Lester. 1976. "Land and Minority Enterprise: The Crisis and the Opportunity." Office of Minority Business Enterprise, U.S. Dept....

Large-scale shopping center development opportunities.
February 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Our aim in this paper is to examine the development opportunities for large-scale shopping centers. Large-scale shopping center development opportunities in the U.S. - defined to include those centers built around one or more...

Household resources, transaction costs, and adjustment through land tenancy.
February 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The temporary transfer of land via tenancy, either by fixed-rent or sharecropping arrangements, is an institution commonly found in the rural areas of many developing countries (Otsuka, Chuma, and Hayami 1992). Attempts to...

The demand for solid waste disposal.
February 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Municipal solid waste disposal has usually been directly or indirectly subsidized by local governments. Widespread reliance on general tax revenue to finance disposal, rather than direct charges which vary with volume or...

Technological disasters and natural resource damage assessment: an evaluation of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. (1989 Alaskan disaster)
February 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Disasters tend to be highly visible events with the potential for considerable economic dislocation. While researchers have extensively explored the economic dimensions of natural disasters (DeAllesi 1968, 1975; Dacy and...

Testing willingness-to-pay models of discrete choice contingent valuation survey data.
February 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The contingent valuation (CV) method is a well-established technique to measure the benefits from changes in the quality of the environment. In order to elicit the public's willingness to pay (WTP) for a specified change in...

Valuing time in travel cost demand analysis: an empirical investigation. (includes appendix)
February 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The analysis of time allocation among recreation alternatives and/or other activities requires empirical valuation of opportunity time costs. Travel cost models (TCM) are seriously underspecified if pricing of time is ignored....

Sky islands, squirrels, and scopes: the political economy of an environmental conflict.
February 1, 1995... The economics discipline is unlikely to have a professional comparative advantage in the near future either in valuing genetic resources or in resolving the controversy about how many and which species to preserve. Gardner Brown, Jr. (1985,...

Least-cost forest carbon reserves: cost-effective subsidies to convert marginal agricultural land to forests.
February 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The opportunity for growing forests to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has received considerable attention (e.g., Marland 1988; Dixon, Schroeder, and Winjum 1991; Trexler 1991; Winjum, Schroeder, and Kenady 1991;...

Houston remains unzoned.
February 1, 1995... On November 2, 1993 the good citizens of Houston, Texas once again voted to reject a proposal to have zoning in the only major city in the U.S. that remains unzoned. Houston voters decisively defeated zoning in 1948 and 1962, but this time the...

Fractional licenses: an alternative to license buy-backs.
February 1, 1995... I. EXTENDING THE FRACTIONAL LICENSE CONCEPT Townsend (1992) proposed fractional licenses as a fisheries management approach that would solve some practical design problems in the implementation of limited entry. Under fractional licenses, the...