nep-env New Economics Papers
on Environmental Economics
Issue of 2006‒12‒04
fifteen papers chosen by
Francisco S.Ramos
Federal University of Pernambuco
  1. DEFORESTATION, GROWTH AND AGGLOMERATION EFFECTS: EVIDENCE FROM AGRICULTURE IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON By Danilo Camargo Igliori
  2. COMÉRCIO E MEIO AMBIENTE: POLÍTICAS AMBIENTAIS E COMPETITIVIDADE NO ÂMBITO DA ALCA By Flavio Tosi Feijó; André Filipe Zago de Azevedo
  3. A INFLUÊNCIA DA “THIRD-PARTY CERTIFICATION” NO CONSUMO DE ORGANISMOS GENETICAMENTE MODIFICADOS By José Felipe A. de Almeida
  4. PROSPECÇÃO PARA BIODIVERSIDADE: UMA ABORDAGEM VIA OPÇÕES REAIS By Edson Gonçalves
  5. WATER REUSE IN BRAZILIAN MANUFACTURING FIRMS By José Gustavo Féres; Alban Thomas; Arnaud Reynaud
  6. VALOR AMBIENTAL EM UMA PERSPECTIVA HETERODOXA INSTITUCIONAL-ECOLÓGICA By Maurício de Carvalho Amazonas
  7. A IMPORTÂNCIA DA REDUÇÃO DO LIXO PARA A QUALIDADE AMBIENTAL EM RECIFE – PE – UMA ANÁLISE POR VALORAÇÃO CONTINGENTE By Luciana de Figueirêdo Lopes Lucena; José Lamartine Távora Júnior
  8. DEMANDA POR ÁGUA E CUSTO DE CONTROLE DA POLUIÇÃO HÍDRICA EM INDÚSTRIAS DA BACIA DO RIO PARAÍBA DO SUL By Ronaldo Seroa da Motta; Alban Thomas; Arnaud Reynaud; José Gustavo Féres
  9. VALORAÇÃO ECONÔMICA AMBIENTAL: O CASO DO RIO PARAIBUNA, JUIZ DE FORA – MG By Roberta Fernanda da Paz de Souza; Aziz Galvão da Silva Júnior
  10. CUSTO DA POLUIÇÃO GERADA PELOS ÔNIBUS URBANOS NA RMSP By Vivian Mac Knight; Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young
  11. Estimating Heterogeneous Capacity and Capacity Utilization in a Multi-Species Fishery By Ronald G. Felthovan Author=Name: William C. Horrace; Kurt E. Schnier
  12. INFINITE UNCERTAINTY, FORGOTTEN FEEDBACKS, AND COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE POLICY By Richard S.J. Tol; Gary W. Yohe
  13. Economic Evidence of Willingness to Pay for the National Animal Identification System in the US By Resende-Filho, Moises; Buhr, Brian
  14. A consumption-based approach to environmental Kuznets curves usinf the ecological footprint indicator By Bagliani Marco; Bravo Giangiacomo; Dalmazzone Silvana
  15. Decentralization and environment By Dalmazzone Silvana
  1. By: Danilo Camargo Igliori
    Date: 2006
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:anp:en2006:102&r=env
  2. By: Flavio Tosi Feijó; André Filipe Zago de Azevedo
    Date: 2006
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:anp:en2006:103&r=env
  3. By: José Felipe A. de Almeida
    Date: 2006
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:anp:en2006:104&r=env
  4. By: Edson Gonçalves
    Date: 2006
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:anp:en2006:112&r=env
  5. By: José Gustavo Féres; Alban Thomas; Arnaud Reynaud
    Date: 2006
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:anp:en2006:181&r=env
  6. By: Maurício de Carvalho Amazonas
    Date: 2006
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:anp:en2006:182&r=env
  7. By: Luciana de Figueirêdo Lopes Lucena; José Lamartine Távora Júnior
    Date: 2006
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:anp:en2006:183&r=env
  8. By: Ronaldo Seroa da Motta; Alban Thomas; Arnaud Reynaud; José Gustavo Féres
    Date: 2006
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:anp:en2006:67&r=env
  9. By: Roberta Fernanda da Paz de Souza; Aziz Galvão da Silva Júnior
    Date: 2006
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:anp:en2006:68&r=env
  10. By: Vivian Mac Knight; Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young
    Date: 2006
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:anp:en2006:69&r=env
  11. By: Ronald G. Felthovan Author=Name: William C. Horrace (Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1020); Kurt E. Schnier
    Abstract: We use a stochastic production frontier model to investigate the presence of heterogeneous production and its impact on fleet capacity and capacity utilization in a multi-species fishery. Furthermore, we propose a new fleet capacity estimate that incorporates complete information on the stochastic differences between each vessel-specific technical efficiency distribution. Results indicate that ignoring heterogeneity in production technologies within a multi-species fishery, as well as the complete distribution of a vessel's technical efficiency socre, may yield erroneous fleet-wide production profiles and estimates of capacity. Furthermore, our new estimate of capacity enables out-of-sample production predictions predicated on either homogeneity or heterogeneity modeling which may be utuilized to facilitate policy.
    Keywords: fishery capacity, heterogeneous production, latent class modeling
    JEL: C23 D24 N50
    Date: 2006–11
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:max:cprwps:86&r=env
  12. By: Richard S.J. Tol (Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University); Gary W. Yohe (Economics Department, Wesleyan University)
    Abstract: Tol (2003) found evidence that the uncertainty that surrounds estimates of the marginal damage of climate change may be infinite even if total damages are finite and questioned the applicability of expected cost-benefit analysis to global mitigation policy. Yohe (2003) suggested that this problem could be alleviated if international development aid were directed at eliminating the source of the problem – climate induced negative growth rates in a few regions along a handful of troublesome scenarios. The hypothesis about adding a second policy lever to the climate policy calculus is shown to hold, but not as robustly as perhaps expected. Infinite uncertainty and its implications for global mitigation policy can be avoided for a reasonable price in the relatively unlikely event that climate change can cause negative economic growth in a region or two when the portfolio of international policies includes at least two tools.
    Keywords: climate policy, development aid, equity weighting, expected cost-benefit analysis
    Date: 2005–08
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wes:weswpa:2005-003&r=env
  13. By: Resende-Filho, Moises; Buhr, Brian
    Abstract: This article investigates the willingness to pay for the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) in the US. We assume that with the NAIS in place, consumers’ risk perception about BSE or mad cow, zoonosis and residues in meat would be mitigated. Therefore, food safety indices for beef, pork and poultry summing the number of references to meat safety found in the top fifty English language news articles in circulation in the US have been constructed. These indices were incorporated in generalized almost ideal demand systems to estimate the effect of those food safety scares on the demand for meat in the US. We found that food safety impacts upon the final demand for meat in the US are small and do not show lagged effects. Using the preferred model, we constructed three scenarios on the basis of hypothesized impacts of the NAIS on consumers' food safety concerns about meat. We use the differences between the predicted total revenue for beef, pork and poultry across scenarios as gross measures of the NAIS’ economic value to the meat sector. Our conclusion is that if the defense of the NAIS is based on its effect on the demand side of the market for meats it is expected that the US Federal government will need to pay for a great part of the costs with the NAIS; otherwise the NAIS is likely to be economically unfeasible in the US.
    Keywords: National Animal Identification System; Meat Safety; System of Demand Equations
    JEL: Q18 Q13 Q11
    Date: 2006–09–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:468&r=env
  14. By: Bagliani Marco; Bravo Giangiacomo; Dalmazzone Silvana (University of Turin)
    Abstract: Recent research suggests that consumption-based measures offer an insightful perspective on the debate on the relationship between economie growth and the environment. In this article, we deepen the eonsumption-based line of inquiry by investigating the empirical èvidenee in support of the environmental Kuznets hypothesis using 1961-2001 ecological footprint data. We test not only inverted-U and linear functions, but a!so power functions as potentia!ly suitable models to represent the relationship between per capita income and environmental impact. Our results do not show evidence of delinking: the rate of growth of the ecologica! footprint slowly decreases when per capita income increases, but the growth itself never stops. The best model approximating this relationship is therefore not a quadratic but a power function, which does not support the case far indefinite economie growth as a prospective solution to environmental problems.
    Date: 2006–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:uto:dipeco:200601&r=env
  15. By: Dalmazzone Silvana (University of Turin)
    Abstract: A part of the literature on fiscal federalism aver the years has dealt with environmental policy as a particular case of the supply of public goods. The centrai issue is the identification of criteria on how to allocate powers and functions aver environmental management at different levels of govemment. The main stream of literature focuses on the conditions needed to establish whether pollution standards and regulatory programs should be set and designed by centraI or rather by local governments. This paper provides a review of the debate and explores a few potential limits of the prevailing line of enquiry.
    Date: 2006–02
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:uto:dipeco:200602&r=env
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