Land Economics articles from May 1992

Land Economics archives from May 1992

Gordon Cameron, 1937-1990. (Cambridge University economist) (Obituary)
May 1, 1992... Editor's Introduction It is altogether too rare that academic journals pause in the course of their routine business to honor a scholar who has touched so many fives. In this instance I am doubly moved. Gordon Cameron was a major force...

Recent developments in the market for rural land use in China. (includes appendices)
May 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION Starting agricultural production about 7,000 years ago, China has had quite a developed land market for centuries. Fairly extensive existence of land selling and leasing was one significant feature of the land system of...

Valuing environmental quality changes using averting expenditures: an application to groundwater contamination.
May 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION Groundwater quality management has become an important public policy issue. While the extent and severity of groundwater degradation is not currently well documented, public concern over possible human health effects...

Uncertainty, information, and hedonic pricing. (includes appendix)
May 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION Application of the hedonic pricing technique, developed by Rosen (1974), to the estimation of consumer valuations of avoiding or incurring the risk of losses from natural hazards has recently appeared in the literature...

A fractional licensing program for fisheries.
May 1, 1992... I. BACKGROUND: LIMITATIONS OF LIMITED ENTRY AND ITQs The economic theory of fisheries management has produced essentially two management programs: limited entry (Sinclair 1961) and individual transferable quotas (ITQs).(1) The...

The bioeconomics of resource rehabilitation: a commercial-sport analysis for a Great Lakes fishery.
May 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION Applied dynamic models are proficient at describing the conceptual underpinnings of fishery economics. They are less adept, however, at portraying bioeconomic realism. Unrealistic biological methods are partly to blame....

Sensitivity of willingness-to-pay estimates to bid design in dichotomous choice contingent valuation models.
May 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION Contingent valuation methods are rapidly taking their place among the dominant techniques for determining the demand for nonmarket goods (see Mitchell and Carson 1989 for numerous references). In particular, the...

Estimating existence value for users and nonusers of New Jersey beaches.
May 1, 1992... I. INTRODUCTION Beach-related activities constitute one of the most popular forms of outdoor recreation in the United States. With recent national attention on shoreline degradation (oil contaminated beaches in Alaska, medical waste...

Who cares about wooded hillsides? (Speculations)
May 1, 1992... A case has been made for preservation of the nation's wetlands. However, given the finiteness of the natural landscape and certain unstoppable human events, tradeoffs will need to be made. Consider, for example, the values of wooded hillsides....