Land Economics articles from February 1996

Land Economics archives from February 1996

Patterns of behavior in endangered species preservation.
February 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION As a society, we seem to have made a generalized commitment to conserving biodiversity; but how do we spend our limited resources on this commitment? Our goal is to answer this question by studying actual decisions made...

Uniform compliance costs for mineral commodities: who gains or who loses?
February 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION The idea that users should pay for the damage that they inflict on our natural environment is accepted by most economists and political philosophers. Nevertheless, conflicts between efficiency and equity inevitably arise when...

Environmental policy based on strict liability: implications of uncertainty and bankruptcy.
February 1, 1996... ABSTRACT. A firm-level model is developed to analyze the impacts of bankruptcy and uncertain firm wealth on incentives for safety under a strict liability rule. Future damages and wealth are uncertain, and a firms income earning activities...

An examination of the monopoly zoning hypothesis.
February 1, 1996... ABSTRACT. There have been several studies that have investigated the effect of zoning on housing prices. One hypothesis is that the restrictiveness of zoning laws will vary with the monopoly power of a town. The degree of monopoly power varies...

A comparison of costs in privately owned and publicly owned electric utilities: the role of scale.
February 1, 1996... ABSTRACT. The continued coexistence of small, publicly owned electricity utilities and larger privately owned utilities suggests that each ownership form has advantages inherent in scale and/or the acquisition of inputs. This pattern may be...

Water and energy price impacts on residential water demand in Copenhagen. (includes appendix)
February 1, 1996... While water price effects on residential water demand have been studied for several decades, the impact of energy prices does not seem to have received much attention. In this paper a residential water demand function -- derived from a model...

Contingent valuation and revealed preference methodologies: comparing the estimates for quasi-public goods.
February 1, 1996... ABSTRACT. A literature search provides 83 studies from which 616 comparisons of contingent valuation (CV) to revealed preference (RP) estimates are made. Summary statistics of the CV/RP ratios are provided for the complete dataset, a 5 percent...

Construct validity of averting cost measures of environmental benefits.
February 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION Economists have developed direct and indirect techniques to measure the benefits of proposed environmental improvements. These benefits are usually defined as the sum of individual willingness to pay for a particular...

Economic valuation of the chinook salmon sport fishery of the Gulkana River, Alaska, under current and alternate management plans.
February 1, 1996... This paper extends the standard travel cost method (TCM) to develop estimates of the economic value of recreational chinook salmon fishing on the Gulkana River, Alaska, under existing and hypothetical fishery management conditions. Respondents...

The demand for solid waste disposal: comment. (response to James G. Strathman et. al., Land Economics, vol. 71, Feb. 1995, p. 57)(Comment and Reply)
February 1, 1996... In a recent article in this journal, Strathman, Rufulo, and Mildner (1995) (henceforth SRM) evaluate the efficiency consequences of common practices regarding the pricing of municipal solid waste services. They conduct their analysis by...

The demand for solid waste disposal: reply. (response to Deborah Vaughn Nestor and Michael J. Podolsky in this issue, p. 129)(Comment and Reply)
February 1, 1996... Nester and Podolsky (1996; hereafter NP) are correct that we simplified the analysis by assuming that other inputs are not substitutable with landfilling in estimating the demand for landfill disposal services. For example, once waste has been...