Land Economics articles from May 1995

Land Economics archives from May 1995

Management of transnational commons: coordination, publicness, and treaty formation.
May 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Although national boundaries are useful when applying rules to govern economic activities, pollution from such activities need not be confined to these arbitrarily drawn frontiers. Recently, there has surfaced an increased...

Systemic crises in hierarchical ecological economies.
May 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The concept, nature, role, and function of hierarchy has been much discussed in both ecology and economics. There has also been much discussion of the nature and functioning of combined ecological-economic systems. What has...

A discrete/continuous choice approach to residential water demand under block rate pricing. (includes appendix)
May 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The residential demand for water services has been the subject of a lengthy literature, much of which appears in this journal. This literature has focused on the issues for both model specification and estimation introduced by...

Oligopsony, vertical integration, and output substitution: welfare effects in U.S. pulpwood markets. (includes appendix)
May 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Spatial factors such as the cost of transporting products between sellers and buyers can mitigate the forces necessary to support perfect competition. This is particularly the case in markets for bulky, land-intensive inputs...

Willingness to pay for quality improvements: comparative statics and interpretation of contingent valuation results.
May 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The increased use of dichotomous choice contingent valuation (CV) data has provided motivation for development of two major models that explain responses to contingent choices. The Hanemann (1984) approach is to specify...

The oil spill size of tanker and barge accidents: determinants and policy implications.
May 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The effectiveness of regulation varies with the level of compliance, which ultimately depends on how effective the regulatory agency is in enforcing its standards. Enforcement methods include direct monitoring (i.e., ex ante...

Motor-fuel taxes and household welfare: an applied general equilibrium analysis.
May 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Expenditure patterns of motor-fuel tax receipts at both the federal and state/local levels have changed considerably over the last decade. There has been a diversion of these revenues away from traditional highway construction...

Environmental philosophy and the concept of nonuse value.(Speculations)
May 1, 1995... In recent years, many resource economists have focused on measuring nonuse, or "passive use," values as one component of total nonmarket benefits. Questions about defining nonuse values, their measurement, and whether they should be included in...

The values jury to aid natural resource decisions.(Speculations)
May 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Congressional legislation emphasizes that public resource allocation should reflect the values citizens assign to those resources.(1) Yet, information about assigned values and preferences of members of the public, including...