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on Environmental Economics |
| By: | Darbandi, Elham; Saghaian, Sayed |
| Abstract: | Keeping global temperature rises below two degrees Celsius is a targeted international community goal. The literature suggests that it is important to explicitly consider the consumption side, as well as the production side to achieve this goal. However, the lack of awareness among the public related to the linkage of the livestock sector and climate change may hinder consumers to change their consumption behavior to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. This study has two purposes. First, we quantify the environmental loading of U.S. beef sector by calculating emission levels over the period of 1990-2017. Beef cattle is one of the most emission-intensive sectors, which is responsible for 54% of total GHGs from livestock. Following International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guideline, we identify three sources of emissions, including enteric fermentation, manure management, and manure left on pastures. Second, we provide an understanding of consumption-environmental connection related to the beef industry. This knowledge might help to avoid the catastrophic climate change consequences in the future. |
| Keywords: | Agribusiness, Agricultural and Food Policy, Livestock Production/Industries |
| Date: | 2018–01–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:saea18:266680&r=env |
| By: | Moore, Karli A.; Kovacs, Kent F. |
| Abstract: | Sequestration of atmospheric carbon in forested lands offsets carbon emissions from other industries. Conversion of private lands, particularly agricultural tracts in marginal areas, to forests can bolster carbon abatement. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers voluntary, incentive-based programs to encourage landowners to adopt production practices with positive environmental outcomes. This policy can be used to increase transition from marginal agricultural land to forests, thereby creating new carbon sinks. We analyze an eleven-county study area in the Mississippi Delta region of Arkansas to determine feasibility for a subsidy focused on carbon abatement through afforestation. This study area is significant for two reasons: the long growing season and humid climate is ideal for fast growing trees such as loblolly pine, and groundwater depletion dynamics factor heavily into future optimal land use patterns. A spatially-explicit optimization model will determine the pattern of land use that maximizes discounted economic returns to landowners and explore responsiveness of optimal land use to government subsidies. The product of this effort, a marginal cost curve for carbon abatement, will assist policymakers in allocating limited resources to programs for greenhouse gas mitigation. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use |
| Date: | 2018–01–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:saea18:266595&r=env |
| By: | Shahbaz, Muhammad; Destek, Mehmet; Polemis, Michael |
| Abstract: | This study investigates the main interrelations generated by the impact of foreign capital along with financial development on clean energy consumption and environmental degradation proxied by the inclusion of CO2 emissions. In doing so, we used panel data techniques targeted at BRICS and Next-11 countries spanning the period 1992-2016. Our paper strongly accounts for the existence of cross-sectional dependence and non-stationarity usually ignored by the other empirical studies. In case of BRICS, the empirical findings reveal that economic growth increases clean energy consumption while financial development reduces it. On the contrary, foreign capital inflows do not appear to have a statistically significant effect on clean energy. We argue that, economic growth, foreign capital inflows and financial development increase CO2 emissions, while clean energy consumption reduces environmental degradation by mitigating carbon emissions in BRICS countries. In case of Next-11 countries, empirical findings indicate that economic growth and foreign capital have positive effect on clean energy consumption. However, economic growth and financial development increases CO2 emissions in N-11 countries. |
| Keywords: | Foreign Capital, Financial Development, Clean Energy, CO2 emissions, Panel Data |
| JEL: | G1 Q4 Q5 |
| Date: | 2018–07–31 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:89267&r=env |
| By: | Sun, Lianqun; Williams, Ryan B.; Mitchell, Donna; Silva, Nirodha De |
| Abstract: | This research focuses on the southernmost portion of the Ogallala Aquifer, underlying the Texas High Plains and eastern New Mexico. Irrigated agriculture and industrial/municipal water demand are in competition for this essentially nonrenewable resource. The absence of a market mechanism has resulted in policy to restrict agricultural withdrawals in order to conserve water for future municipal needs. These policies are established in the absence of an estimated social value for the water resources. This paper investigates the possibility of the marketable option value for maintaining groundwater resources in the southern Ogallala Aquifer as compared to an estimated existence value. We utilize a referendum format contingent valuation (CV) survey of the western portion of Texas. Both the estimates of existence value and option value are reasonable, given current use values. Factors influencing both estimates include age, the existence of children, importance of the aquifer for household income, and pro-environmental attitudes. We conclude by comparing the two estimates. Given that property rights in Texas are governed by the rule of capture, we contend – contrary to arguments presented in Freeman (2003) – that option value is the appropriate social value measure. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2018–01–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:saea18:266731&r=env |
| By: | Grillitsch, Markus (Lund University); Hansen, Teis (Lund University) |
| Abstract: | As response to environmental challenges such as global warming and the extinction of species sustainable regional development has become a key policy objective. Regions, however, vary in their preconditions for green industrial path development. Taking existing regional industrial specialization patterns as a starting point, this paper develops a new typology linking regional preconditions to various pathways for green industrial path development. This provides the foundation for identifying place-based policy implications for growing clean industries in different types of regions, grounded in the emerging perspective in innovation studies on policies for transformative change. The paper thereby helps to understand the pathways for greening the economy in different regional contexts and how such green pathways can be promoted through policy. |
| Keywords: | Green growth; regional development; cleantech; industrial path development; place-based policy; regional policy |
| JEL: | O30 O38 P48 Q50 Q58 R10 R58 |
| Date: | 2018–09–27 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:lucirc:2018_011&r=env |
| By: | Asongu, Simplice |
| Abstract: | We provide policy-relevant critical masses beyond which, increasing CO2 emissions negatively affects inclusive human development. This study examines how increasing CO2 emissions affects inclusive human development in 44 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Fixed Effects and Tobit regressions. In order to increase the policy relevance of this study, the dataset is decomposed into fundamental characteristics of inclusive development and environmental degradation based on income levels (Low income versus (vs.) Middle income); legal origins (English Common law vs. French Civil law); religious domination (Christianity vs. Islam); openness to sea (Landlocked vs. Coastal); resource-wealth (Oil-rich vs. Oil-poor) and political stability (Stable vs. Unstable). All computed thresholds are within policy range. Hence, above these thresholds, CO2 emissions negatively affect inclusive human development. |
| Keywords: | CO2 emissions; Economic development; Africa |
| JEL: | C52 O38 O40 O55 P37 |
| Date: | 2018–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:89130&r=env |
| By: | Caroline Orset (Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, ECO-PUB - Economie Publique - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AgroParisTech) |
| Abstract: | Despite the various measures taken to reduce air pollution in France, the French continue to use high-emission vehicles. We propose to evaluate the willingness to pay (WTP) for four means of transport: two high-emission vehicles (diesel taxi and diesel personal vehicle) and two low-emission vehicles (rented electric vehicle and public transport). Successive messages revealing the effects of air pollution on health and the environment are provided to individuals in a different order. The information conveyed changes both of the WTP of individuals and of their choices. However, the use of high-emission vehicles has not diminished , personal vehicles remain the most popular. Using data collected from our survey, a multinomial logit model is used to determine individual choices. We find that improving individuals' confidence in air pollution recommendations would be a good way to lead them to choose low-emission rather than high-emission means of transport. Moreover, these estimates also indicate that individuals who attach great importance to comfort are less likely to choose low-emission vehicles than those who value price above other factors. Individual interest can therefore prevail over collective interest, thus verifying the theory of the tragedy of the commons. Different policies (taxes, subsidies, or standard) to encourage people to adopt low-emission vehicles are then tested. |
| Keywords: | Air Pollution,Information Campaign,Means of Transport,Tax-Subsidy-Standard,Travellers' Willingness to Pay |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01866811&r=env |
| By: | Coria, Jessica (Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University); Hennlock, Magnus (Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL),); Sterner, Thomas |
| Abstract: | In this paper, we analyze the effects of the interaction between national and local policies designed to reduce an environmental externality that causes environmental damages both nationally and locally. We formulate a theoretical model to develop hypotheses regarding the combined effects of such policies on the stringency of the local policies and on firms’ emissions reductions. To test our hypotheses, we use actual data for Sweden, where emissions of nitrogen oxides from combustion plants are subject to a heavy national tax and to individual emissions standards set by county authorities. Our analytical findings suggest that it is unlikely that local regulators will impose emissions standards stringent enough to achieve further reductions than those induced by the national tax. This is confirmed in our data, where most emissions reductions can be attributed to the national tax and the effects of the emissions standards are not significant. |
| Keywords: | environmental regulation; multi-governance; federalism; emission taxes; command-and-control; air pollution; N0x; Sweden |
| JEL: | D62 H23 H77 Q58 |
| Date: | 2018–09 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:gunwpe:0742&r=env |
| By: | Golub, Alla; Sohngen, Brent; Cai, Yongyang; Hertel, Thomas W.; Kim, John |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Natural Resource Economics, Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274407&r=env |
| By: | Claassen, Roger; Bowman, Maria; McFadden, Jonathan; Smith, David; Wallander, Steven |
| Abstract: | Reducing tillage and increasing soil cover can enhance soil health. Conservation tillage, particularly no-till or strip-till, used in conjunction with soil cover practices (like conservation crop rotations and cover crops) can lead to a range of soil health benefits: improved agricultural productivity, greater drought resilience, and better environmental outcomes. This report uses field-level data to estimate tillage practice adoption based on soil disturbance as measured by absence of tillage operations (for no-till) and the Soil Tillage Intensity Rating (STIR, for mulch till). To gauge the intensity of tillage over time, we estimate the number of years no-till or strip-till are used over a 4-year period. Rates of adoption for practices that affect soil cover—including conservation crop rotations, cover crops, double cropping, fallowing, and residue harvest or grazing—are also estimated. The rates at which these practices are adopted in conjunction with no-till/strip-till are also estimated to illustrate interactions between tillage and practices that affect soil cover. |
| Keywords: | Crop Production/Industries |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uersib:277566&r=env |
| By: | Ray Chaudhuri, A. (Tilburg University, Center For Economic Research); Benchekroun, H.; Breton, Michele |
| Abstract: | We examine the profitability of horizontal mergers within nonrenewable resource industries, which account for a large proportion of merger activities worldwide. Each firm owns a private stock of the resource and uses open-loop strategies when choosing its extraction path. We analytically show that even a small merger (merger of 2 firms) is always profitable when the resource stock owned by each firm is small enough. In the case where pollution is generated by the industry's activity, we show that an environmental policy that increases the firms' production cost or reduces their selling price can deter a merger. This speeds up the industry's extraction and thereby causes emissions to occur earlier than under a laissez-faire scenario. |
| Keywords: | exhaustible resources; horizontal mergers; environmental regulation; differential games |
| JEL: | Q39 L41 Q58 |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tiu:tiucen:0900f396-d440-4db5-9102-a56c8a0d07d6&r=env |
| By: | Derek Lemoine |
| Abstract: | I formally relate the consequences of climate change to time series variation in weather. First, I show that the effects of climate change on adaptation investments can be bounded from below by estimating responses to weather outcomes. The bound becomes tighter when also estimating responses to forecasts. Second, I show that the marginal effect of climate change on long-run payoffs is identical to the average effect of transient weather events. Instead of estimating the marginal effect of weather within distinct weather bins, empirical work should estimate the average effect of weather within each climate. |
| JEL: | D84 H43 Q54 |
| Date: | 2018–09 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:25008&r=env |
| By: | Marshall, Elizabeth; Aillery, Marcel; Ribaudo, Marc; Key, Nigel; Sneeringer, Stacy; Hansen, LeRoy; Malcolm, Scott; Riddle, Anne |
| Abstract: | Every summer, a large area forms in the northern Gulf of Mexico where dissolved oxygen becomes too low for many aquatic species to survive. This “hypoxic zone” is fueled by nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) runoff from the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB), most of which comes from agriculture. This analysis used the ERS Regional Environment and Agriculture Programming (REAP) model and data from the USDA Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) to assess the most cost-effective way of achieving a 45-percent reduction in cropland nutrient loads to the Gulf. Strategies involve adoption of management practices that reduce nutrient loss from fields to water resources, off-field practices for intercepting nutrients, retirement of marginal cropland, and other changes in crop management. Results suggest that proximity to the Gulf was a major factor in the location of nutrient-reduction efforts when reducing Gulf hypoxia was the only goal. When local as well as Gulf nutrient-reduction targets are applied, nutrient-reduction efforts are spread more evenly across the MARB. Adopting nutrient management practices, restoring wetlands, and retiring cropland to meet water quality goals also increased commodity prices, resulting in more intensive production outside the MARB and increased nutrient and sediment loadings to water in other watersheds. |
| Keywords: | Crop Production/Industries, Environmental Economics and Policy, Health Economics and Policy |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uersrr:277567&r=env |
| By: | Gollier, Christian |
| Abstract: | When an intertemporal carbon budget is imposed to fight climate change, abating emissions earlier has a social rate of return that is equal to the growth rate of the marginal abatement cost, i.e., of the carbon price. I use a normative version of asset pricing theory to determine the efficient level of the growth rate of expected carbon price in this Hotelling’s framework under uncertainty. When future marginal abatement costs are negatively correlated with aggregate consumption, an immediate vigorous reduction in emissions provides a hedge against the macroeconomic risk borne by the representative agent. The growth rate of expected carbon price should therefore be smaller than the interest rate in that case, and the initial carbon price should be large. The opposite is true when this correlation is positive, and the Hotelling’s rule applies as a limit case with independence. We calibrate a simple two-period version of the model by introducing infrequent macroeconomic catastrophes à la Barro in order to fit the model to observed assets pricing in the economy. From this numerical exercise, we recommend a growth rate of expected carbon price around 3.5% per year (plus inflation), which is much larger than the 1% equilibrium interest rate in our economy. |
| Keywords: | Uncertain mitigation cost; marginal abatement cost; Hotelling’s rule; consumptionbased CAPM |
| JEL: | D81 G12 Q54 |
| Date: | 2018–09 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tse:wpaper:32931&r=env |
| By: | Acharya, Ram N.; C., Apar G.; Ward, Frank |
| Abstract: | Most rivers in Nepal originate in the high mountain glaciers and flow into the Ganges serving as the primary source of fresh water for the whole region. However, global warming-induced changes in temperature and rainfall patterns are accelerating the rate of deglaciation, the frequency of glacial lake outburst, massive flooding, and droughts. Moreover, the climate-induced changes in Nepalese river systems, which contribute more than 70 percent of the dry season river flow to the Ganges, is significantly affecting transboundary water supply and use in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. In this light, this study uses a hydro-economic model to determine the optimal allocation of water in Fewa Lake watershed among four competing uses - irrigation, municipal use, power generation, and recreational use. Preliminary results show considerable opportunity to increase economic efficiency, equity, and sustainability. For example, construction of additional reservoir storage capacity and better use of available rainfall and river flow data in managing existing reservoir systems can substantially improve power generation capacity, ability to control flood, and increase irrigation productivity without significantly reducing downstream flow. |
| Keywords: | Resource /Energy Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2018–01–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:saea18:266673&r=env |
| By: | Nicolas Julian Seyler |
| Abstract: | In literature, large performance discrepancies have been found for comparable buildings. Moreover, often a large gap between predicted and actual building performance has been observed. The underlying reason for these phenomena is in many cases user behavior. Buildings may have become more efficient, but user behavior can easily offset potential efficiency gains.User behaviors have been and still are puzzling researchers. A key question remains how individual factors like knowledge, awareness or attitude relate to behaviors; commonly known as attitude-behavior gap. Anecdotal findings suggest that mindfulness is associated with closing this gap. Mindfulness is usually defined as an enhanced awareness of and attention to what is currently taking place. It may be important to disengage individuals from automatic thoughts, habits, and behavioral patterns. Mindfulness may facilitate behaviors which are consistent with one’s attitudes, values, and beliefs. This paper investigates the effects of environmental awareness and mindfulness on environmental real estate user behaviors at home and at work.A pre-test study has been conducted among students and evaluated with structural equation modeling. Preliminary findings revealed that mindfulness positively affects environmental awareness as well as environmental behaviors at home and at work. Other sustainable consumption patterns positively affect environmental behaviors as well, suggesting that “green” individuals also behave accordingly in buildings. Additionally, the context seems to influence behaviors, since environmental real estate user behaviors can be rather observed at home. One possible explanation is that occupants do not pay for utilities at the office. Nevertheless, the results imply that until environmental real estate user behaviors become the societal default, their enactment depends on mindful and environmentally aware individuals. In a next step, a study using a representative sample of the German population will be conducted to test for support of the findings.The contributions of this article are twofold. Firstly, it is one of the first articles to assess whether the same individual behaves differently depending on the context. Secondly, the article contributes to the existing literature in the field of building energy and water conservation by offering evidence that mindfulness as well as environmental awareness affect environmental real estate user behaviors. |
| Keywords: | Energy Conservation; Environmental Behavior; Occupant Behavior; Sustainability; Water Conservation |
| JEL: | R3 |
| Date: | 2018–01–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arz:wpaper:eres2018_15&r=env |
| By: | Ji, Xinde; Cobourn, Kelly M.; Weng, Weizhe |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274306&r=env |
| By: | Lambert, Lixia He; English, Burton C.; Clark, Christopher D.; Lambert, Dayton M.; Boyer, Chris; Smith, Aaron; Papnicolaou, Thanos; Hellwinckel, Chad M. |
| Keywords: | Resource /Energy Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2018–01–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:saea18:266559&r=env |
| By: | Khurana, Ritika; Mugabe, Douglas; Etienne, Xiaoli L. |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats, International Development |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274413&r=env |
| By: | Cath Jackson; Allison Orr |
| Abstract: | A decade ago, the authors completed a RICS-funded study (see Jackson & Orr, 2008; 2011) into investor decision-making at the asset acquisition stage and found that the environmental sustainability rating of a property was an insignificant consideration, ranking at 7th place out of eight property attributes. These findings are revisited, again funded by the RICS, to explore how, as the sustainability agenda has advanced generally, the property industry has reacted.Studies suggest that capital value and rental green premia for sustainability exist, especially in US and Australian markets, indicating that investors and tenants are willing to pay higher prices for properties with sustainability attributes. However, evidence also suggests that the higher values being paid are greater than the pure financial (cost-saving) gains.Similar research in the UK is beginning to emerge but the findings are less conclusive. Thus, there is a need to investigate the drivers for such policies in the UK and the degree to which they are being implemented. Four key themes guide the study: (1) Strategy setting and policy; (2) Financial drivers; (3) Non-financial drivers; and (4) Implementation and measurement.The empirical part of the study follows two stages: firstly, a quantitative simulation exercise revealed that the BREEAM rating has risen to be the third most important attribute for investors during asset acquisition. However, conversely, stated preferences revealed it is expected to make virtually no contribution to achieving target returns or to risk mitigation. Here we present the results of the second stage, where focus groups explored drivers for the adoption and implementation of environmental sustainability strategies, and any barriers to change.The results indicate that:The drivers for investing in sustainability features vary and include internal initiatives, external peer pressure and reputational drivers, as well as the requirements of investor-clients and some tenants; Crucially, green premia are not felt to exist in the UK. This was seen as a source of conflict between the achievement of financial and sustainability objectives, where there is a lack of hard evidence of added-value coming from expenditure on sustainability initiatives and systems; and At the implementation stage, where the achievement of financial and sustainability objectives appear to be mutually exclusive, financial objectives remain the predominant concern of fund managers. |
| Keywords: | Environmental; Investment; Sustainability; UK |
| JEL: | R3 |
| Date: | 2018–01–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arz:wpaper:eres2018_244&r=env |
| By: | Durrmeyer, Isis |
| Abstract: | I analyze the distributional effects of an environmental policy in the new automobile market: the French feebate. I quantify the monetary and environmental gains and losses that are due to this new automobile purchase tax/subsidy across consumers. I develop and estimate a structural model of the demand and supply for new cars that features a high level of heterogeneity in consumers' preferences. By exploiting data on car sales at the municipality level, I identify the heterogeneity parameters through the correlation that exists between household characteristics and car attributes across municipalities. I simulate the market equilibrium without the feebate to quantify the causal welfare and environmental effects of the feebate. The policy reduces average carbon emissions but increases the emissions of all the local pollutants, and the effects are heterogeneous across consumers, car manufacturers and pollutants. The performance of the feebate is very high for consumer surplus maximization, but there is room to increase manufacturers' profits and limit the emissions of local pollutants. |
| Date: | 2018–09 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tse:wpaper:32928&r=env |
| By: | Bocci, Corinne F.; Lupi, Frank; Sohngen, Brent |
| Keywords: | Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Natural Resource Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274011&r=env |
| By: | Caillavet, France; Fadhuile, Adelaide; Nichèle, Véronique |
| Keywords: | Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Demand and Price Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:273860&r=env |
| By: | Liu, Pengfei; Swallow, Stephen K. |
| Abstract: | Credit stacking involves the sale of multiple types of environmental credits from a single, spatially defined project. The practice is controversial because environmental advocates suspect (a) producers may undermine the principle of additionality by extracting unearned profits through the sale of by-products from actions taken based on the incentives for a single credit-type, (b) society may lose the opportunity for free environmental improvements when complementary or joint production creates such by-products, or (c) broader environmental quality may decline by allowing polluters’ cheaper or easier compliance with off-set requirements, weakening incentives to avoid initiating degradation. Previous research ignores producers’ potential responses when the credit stacking policy changes. This paper offers a framework to analyze the interaction between credit stacking policy and producers’ choices—especially regarding their choice of production technology—and the implications for the relative advantages of alternative stacking policies for environmental markets. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2018–07 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274846&r=env |
| By: | - |
| Abstract: | En este estudio se recoge una revisión del estado actual del conocimiento acerca de las metodologías y herramientas más utilizadas para la evaluación de los riesgos y las consecuencias del cambio climático sobre los sistemas natural y socioeconómico, en particular de los asociados a los efectos de la inundación y la erosión de las zonas costeras. El documento se estructura en tres bloques: un primer bloque introductorio en el que se presentan los antecedentes y una revisión general de la literatura en relación con el análisis de los riesgos de inundación y erosión sobre los sistemas costeros; un segundo bloque orientado a revisar las estrategias existentes para abordar la caracterización de la inundación costera y sus consecuencias a diferentes escalas, y un tercer bloque centrado en los diferentes métodos que se encuentran en la literature para analizar los cambios en la línea de costa y sus riesgos derivados. |
| Keywords: | CAMBIO CLIMATICO, COSTAS, ECOLOGIA DE LAS COSTAS, EVALUACION DE RIESGOS, EVALUACION DEL IMPACTO AMBIENTAL, INUNDACIONES, EROSION DE LAS COSTAS, DATOS ESTADISTICOS, CLIMATE CHANGE, COASTS, SEASHORE ECOLOGY, RISK ASSESSMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT, FLOODS, COASTAL EROSION, STATISTICAL DATA |
| Date: | 2018–09–24 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ecr:col022:44096&r=env |
| By: | Sohngen, Brent; Favero, Alice; Jin, Yufang; Huang, Yuhan |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274307&r=env |
| By: | Brewer, Brady; Campbell, Ben; Rabinowitz, Adam; Russell, Levi |
| Abstract: | Regulation and compliance are major issues within the agricultural industry. We attempt to gain a better understanding of the factors effecting the cost of compliance in the agricultural sector. We conducted an online survey during Fall 2014 on Northeastern agricultural producers. A total of 600 surveys were collected representing all types of agricultural production within the Northeastern U.S. We find producers perceive all regulations have increased since 2010, but environmental, food safety, and environmental regulations having been perceived to increase the most. Over half of the survey respondents indicated a significant increase in the cost of compliance for state regulations. However, fines after inspection was found to have little impact on the cost of compliance. We also find that older farmers have less costs of compliance and bigger farms have more costs of compliance. |
| Keywords: | Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2018–01–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:saea18:266605&r=env |
| By: | Daigneault, Adam J.; Johnston, Craig; Baker, Justin S.; Latta, Gregory |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, International Trade |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274308&r=env |
| By: | Walker Hanlon (NYU Stern School of Business) |
| Abstract: | "This study provides new evidence on the impact of air pollution in London over the century from 1866-1965. To identify weeks with elevated pollution levels I use new data tracking the timing of London’s famous fog events, which trapped emissions in the city. These events are compared to detailed new weekly mortality data. My results show that acute pollution exposure due to fog events accounted for at least one out of every 200 deaths in London during this century. I provide evidence that the presence of infectious diseases of the respiratory system, such as measles and tuberculosis, increased the mortality effects of pollution. As a result, success in reducing the infectious diseases burden in London in the 20th century reduced the impact of pollution exposure and shifted the distribution of pollution effects across age groups." |
| JEL: | N00 |
| Date: | 2018–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehs:wpaper:18019&r=env |
| By: | Yoo, Do-il; Kim, Hyeon-woong; Kwon, Ji-soo; Kim, So-Jin |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Demand and Price Analysis, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274298&r=env |
| By: | Kitchel, Hannah; Boehm, Rebecca L.; Cash, Sean B. |
| Keywords: | Food and Agricultural Marketing, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Food Safety and Nutrition |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274067&r=env |
| By: | Arellano Gonzalez, Jesus |
| Keywords: | Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Production Economics, Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats |
| Date: | 2018–07–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274010&r=env |
| By: | Bertone Oehninger, Ernst; Lin Lawell, C.-Y. Cynthia; Sanchirico, James N. |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, International Trade, Natural Resource Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274439&r=env |
| By: | Maxir, Henrique Dos Santos; Silveira, Iara; Costa, Rayssa A.; Almeida, Alexandre N.; Galvão, Maria Cristina |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats, Rural/Community Development |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274440&r=env |
| By: | Valcu-Lisman, Adriana M.; Ji, Yongjie; Kling, Catherine L.; Arbuckle, J. Gordon |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Risk and Uncertainty, Natural Resource Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274414&r=env |
| By: | Stevens, Andrew W. |
| Abstract: | How does agricultural land use respond to variation in the price of agricultural water? Answering this question is difficult in California where there is no well-functioning market for water. To overcome this challenge, I use variation in groundwater depth over space and time to proxy for the price of water. This makes sense in a setting where groundwater pumping is unregulated, meaning the effective price of pumped groundwater is the energy cost to pump it. I construct a panel of agricultural fields in Fresno County, California from 2008 to 2016, and estimate a fixed effects model to estimate groundwater depth's effect on transition probabilities between different categories of land cover. I find that groundwater depth reduces the likelihood that parcels will be planted to an annual crop, but increases the likelihood of fallowing land. Groundwater depth seems to have a less profound effect on choosing to plant perennial crops. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2018–01–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:saea18:266691&r=env |
| By: | - |
| Abstract: | Los riesgos de inundación en zonas costeras han aumentado significativamente en los últimos años. La respuesta tradicional a este fenómeno se basa en soluciones convencionales, como la construcción de diques artificiales o el aumento de las dimensiones de las infraestructuras. Se trata de soluciones rígidas, con escasa capacidad de adaptación a condiciones climáticas cambiantes y poco sostenibles en términos ambientales. Sin embargo, se ha demostrado numerosas veces que determinados ecosistemas, como los bosques de manglar y los arrecifes de coral, contribuyen a proteger la costa de las inundaciones y la erosión. Por lo tanto, su recuperación presenta la ventaja de ser una solución flexible, fácilmente adaptable a cambios de largo plazo como el aumento del nivel del mar y que supone costos de conservación mucho menores. En este estudio se valoran los beneficios económicos y sociales de las barreras arrecifales y los manglares cubanos, y se concluye que ambos desempeñan un papel fundamental en la reducción del riesgo de inundación costera. |
| Keywords: | CAMBIO CLIMATICO, COSTAS, PROTECCION DE LAS COSTAS, ARRECIFES DE CORAL, MANGLARES, CLIMATE CHANGE, COASTS, SHORE PROTECTION, CORAL REEFS, MANGROVE SWAMPS |
| Date: | 2018–09–25 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ecr:col022:44103&r=env |
| By: | Anne Musson (ESSCA - Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d'Angers - ESSCA); Damien Rousselière (SMART - Structures et Marché Agricoles, Ressources et Territoires - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AGROCAMPUS OUEST) |
| Abstract: | This article questions the role of producer organisations and cooperatives in agri-environmental practices adoption, illustrated with the case study of the adoption of recycled plastic films by fruit and vegetables producers in the Nantes region. Through an exploratory survey, we show that cooperatives are a lever for spreading environmental innovation. Indeed, experts within cooperatives are sure of the need to adopt such innovations, unlike many producers. We highlight that the existence of this lever is relative to an important variable: trust. |
| Abstract: | Cet article questionne le rôle des organisations de producteurs et des coopératives pour l'adoption de pratiques agroenvironnementales, en s'appuyant sur un cas concret d'adoption de films plastiques recyclés par des maraîchers dans la région nantaise. À travers une enquête exploratoire, nous démontrons que les coopératives constituent un levier en matière de diffusion de l'innovation environnementale. En effet, les experts au sein des coopératives sont convaincus de la nécessité d'adopter de telles innovations, contrairement à nombre de maraîchers. Nous mettons en évidence que l'existence de ce levier est soumis à une variable importante : la confiance. |
| Keywords: | cooperatives,governance,ecological transition,textual analysis,innovation.,gouvernance,transition écologique,analyse textuelle,coopérative |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01850520&r=env |
| By: | Ratliff, English L.; Vassalos, Michael; Motallebi, Marzieh |
| Keywords: | Food and Agricultural Marketing, Demand and Price Analysis, Agribusiness Economics and Management |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274063&r=env |
| By: | - |
| Abstract: | En este trabajo se describe una base de datos históricos del oleaje a lo largo de la costa de Cuba. Se trata de un insumo básico para disponer de una caracterización climática robusta del oleaje que pueda aplicarse en diferentes estudios de ingeniería costera. Esta reconstrucción histórica del oleaje a lo largo de la costa de Cuba ha permitido elaborar un atlas de caracterización climática aplicando diversas metodologías de análisis estadístico. También se incluyen los resultados de las proyecciones de cambio climático del oleaje para finales de siglo, con el objetivo de contar con un análisis de la magnitud de estos cambios para su consideración en la evaluación del riesgo asociado a los efectos del cambio climático en las zonas costeras. |
| Keywords: | CAMBIO CLIMATICO, COSTAS, EVALUACION DEL IMPACTO AMBIENTAL, OLAS MARINAS, MEDICION, MODELOS MATEMATICOS, CLIMATE CHANGE, COASTS, OCEAN WAVES, MEASUREMENT, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT |
| Date: | 2018–09–25 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ecr:col022:44102&r=env |
| By: | Ali, Amjad; Zulfiqar, Kalsoom |
| Abstract: | Mostly, economists believe that due to non-existence of agglomeration economies, there are less chances of employment spatial distribution in an economy. Following the strands of previous literature about agglomeration special impacts, this study has uplifted the curtain from some interesting realities. This study has examined the association between unemployment and natural resources agglomeration in Pakistan from 1980 to 2016. For measuring natural resources agglomeration, an index has been constructed based on coal production, oil production, forest area and agricultural land as a percentage of total land area. The study utilized autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method of co-integration. The results show that natural resources agglomeration, secondary school enrollment, foreign direct investment and inflation have a negative and significant impact on unemployment in Pakistan. The results reveal that population is putting a positive impact on unemployment in Pakistan. The study finds that natural resources agglomeration is an important factor for reducing unemployment in Pakistan. There are some other factors for agglomeration economies, i.e. Local economic policies, natural resources availability and amount of manpower for employment spatial distribution in Pakistan. So, efforts are needed to mega scale for exploration, proper usage and the functioning of natural resources in Pakistan. |
| Keywords: | unemployment, natural resources, inflation, foreign direct investment |
| JEL: | E24 N50 P24 |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:89022&r=env |
| By: | McKee, Brandon; Lamm, Alexa; McFadden, Brandon |
| Abstract: | This study sought to gauge Florida’s consumers’ willingness to pay for protecting the future of Florida’s water supply from 2013 to 2016. This study used a value approach for estimating consumer’s willingness to pay for a 10 percent and a 50 percent increase in their water bill. The study also sought to identify dissonance between Florida’s consumers to determine influencers of their willingness to pay. The study found an increasing percentage of consumers willing to support the protection of Florida’s water supply since 2013. As well, income was a common factor influencing respondent’s willingness to pay. Knowing this dissonance can help decision makers make informed polices and regulations about future water conservation strategies for the future. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2018–01–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:saea18:266590&r=env |
| By: | Gilliland, Ted E.; Sanchirico, James N.; Taylor, J. Edward |
| Keywords: | International Development, Natural Resource Economics, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274244&r=env |
| By: | Liu, Pengfei; Wang, Yu; Zhang, Wei |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274311&r=env |
| By: | Kaia Kask; Ene Kolbre; Aivar Tomson; Ülleke Eerik |
| Abstract: | The changes in market price levels of residential real estate market may occur due to several reasons. Those reasons may have either positive or negative influence, causing either the rise or fall in the level of real estate market prices. Sometimes it may happen that the same real estate asset may be affected by several different factors at the same time, which normally, in ceteris paribus condition, have detrimental effect on the market price level, but bundled together, may cause a co-effect in a manner, where the overall influence on the direction of the level of real estate market price is difficult to identify.One of those hardly identifiable co-effects may occur, if to put together sharp changes in the real estate market conditions with the sharp and detrimental changes in the environmental conditions. Changes in real estate market conditions are measured mostly by the changes in macro- and microeconomic indices, such as changes in economic growth, inflation rate, general and bank loan interest rates and demographics, as well as certain specific physical and market features of the certain types of real estate assets. On the other hand, the possible detrimental environmental conditions might be evoked by different weather events, like heavy wind, causing a storm, hurricane, tornado, and tsunami, also snow, droughts, frosts, heavy rainfall, and lightning, but also by fire, flooding, earthquake, avalanches, tidal waves, and landslides. Usually, several of those mentioned environmental events occur also in a bundle, either at the same time or in a particular sequence in a certain time-frame. This study aims to explore both short- and long-term effects of one-time major flooding incident on residential real estate market prices in the city of Pärnu, in Estonia. The studied marine-coastal flooding event was induced by a heavy storm, caused by the hurricane called “Erwin/Gudrun” at the 9th of January, 2005. The authors offer their own holistic theoretical framework, elaborated further from Tobin and Newton (1986) theory, explaining the phenomenon of flooding on real estate market prices. In the empirical part, the authors seek for alternative solutions to mainstream quantitative methods in similar studies, like repeat sales and hedonic regression analysis, to find robust evidences for identifying the effect of flooding on residential real estate market prices in terms of a small sample analysis of flooded versus non-flooded area transactions data. |
| Keywords: | amenities; environmental hazard; flooding; market price; Residential Real Estate |
| JEL: | R3 |
| Date: | 2018–01–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arz:wpaper:eres2018_51&r=env |
| By: | Liu, Jing; Hertel, Thomas W.; Kucharik, Christopher; Baldos, Uris Lantz C.; Jarvis, Larissa; Ramankutty, Navin |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Natural Resource Economics, Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274427&r=env |
| By: | Bhuiyanmishu, Siddika; Palm-Forster, Leah H.; Li, Tongzhe |
| Keywords: | Experimental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274045&r=env |
| By: | Fan, Yubing; Park, Seong C. |
| Abstract: | To extend the economic life of the Ogallala Aquifer, policy makers and stakeholders have considered and implemented several water conservation policies. Starting with an empirical study by Segarra and Feng (1994), the inter-temporal dynamic approach has been adopted in literature to evaluate impacts of these policies in the region. To integrate the findings and make comparable evaluations, we conducted a meta-analysis of the literature. After a systematic identification and screening of relevant publications including journal articles, meeting papers and reports, the meta-analysis included 19 studies focusing on nine major water conservation polices, including irrigation technology adoption, water use restriction, biotechnology, permanent and temporary conversion to dryland production. The average number of policies analyzed by the literature was 3.33, and more than 60% of the studies included one or more counties in the Southern High Plains region of Texas. The average planning horizon was 52 years. The estimated average decrease of saturated thickness was 59 feet. The economic impacts of these policies were significantly different in each study. |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2018–01–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:saea18:266656&r=env |
| By: | Khadka Mishra, Shruti; Negri, Cristina; Quinn, John; Cacho, Jules |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274313&r=env |
| By: | Villoria, Nelson B.; Liu, Jing; Hertel, Thomas W. |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274299&r=env |
| By: | Dumortier, Jerome; Elobeid, Amani E.; Carriquiry, Miguel A. |
| Keywords: | Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis, International Trade, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:273875&r=env |
| By: | Mallika Appuhamilage, Buddhika P.; Tonsor, Glynn T.; Tack, Jesse B. |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Agribusiness Economics and Management, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274346&r=env |
| By: | Zeng, Shuwei; Du, Xiaodong; Gould, Brian W. |
| Keywords: | Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274001&r=env |
| By: | Levers, Lucia; Pradhananga, Amit; Peterson, Jeffrey M. |
| Keywords: | Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274013&r=env |
| By: | Lichtenberg, Erik; Wang, Haoluan; Newburn, David |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274455&r=env |
| By: | Sun, Shanxia; Gramig, Ben; Delgado, Michael |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Natural Resource Economics, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274456&r=env |
| By: | Sun, Shanxia; Johnson, David R.; Hertel, Thomas W. |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Natural Resource Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274452&r=env |
| By: | Laurent Denant-Boèmont (CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR1 - Université de Rennes 1 - UNIV-RENNES - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Javier Faulin (UPNA - Universidad Pública de Navarra [Espagne]); Sabrina Hammiche (CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR1 - Université de Rennes 1 - UNIV-RENNES - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Adrian Serrano-Hernandez (UPNA - Universidad Pública de Navarra [Espagne]) |
| Abstract: | The estimation of the noise impact caused by road freight transportation is critical to have acknowledgment of the ambiance pollution caused by road traffic crossing geographical areas containing important natural resources. Thus, our work proposes a within-subject survey where a Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) is combined with a laboratory economic experimental auction. Our study objective is to measure the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for reducing traffic noise nuisances due to freight transportation in the region of Navarre, Spain. A special focus is made regarding the measurement of the hypothetical bias, when a comparison is done between hypothetical WTP, coming from the CVM study, with real-incentivized one, as the outcome of the economic experiment. Additionally, statistical analyses are conducted in order to find explanation factors for these outcomes. Results suggest a strong evidence for an upward hypothetical bias (from 50% to 160%) indicating the income, the educational level, the gender, and the age as the main factors which explain that bias. |
| Keywords: | Noise,Transportation externality,Willingness-to-pay,Laboratory economic experiment,Contingent valuation method |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01866869&r=env |
| By: | Potter, Nicholas; Brady, Michael P.; Rajagopalan, Kirti |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats, Natural Resource Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274347&r=env |
| By: | Srivastava, Lorie; Hand, Michael; Kim, John; Sánchez, José J. |
| Keywords: | Resource /Energy Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2018–08 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274840&r=env |
| By: | Wenzel, Daniela (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg) |
| Abstract: | Natural disasters are a challenge for good governance - this is the result of recent research investiga- ting the effects of natural disasters on one important antagonistic force to good governance, public corruption. However, a specific analysis of droughts is so far neglected in this young strand of the literature. This paper fills that gap by analysing the short- and long-term influence of droughts on cor- ruption within a unified panel estimation approach for 122 countries during the years 1985 to 2013. Relying on a meteorological drought index, we show that higher drought exposure is followed by increases in corruption. This effect holds true for subgroups of poor and rich countries although its ti- ming and intensity is different. In addition, we identify drought-induced corruption as a phenomenon of countries yielding high per capita income in the agricultural sector. |
| Keywords: | Drought; Natural Disasters; Public Sector Corruption; Institutions; Economic Development |
| JEL: | D73 E02 Q54 Q56 |
| Date: | 2018–09–28 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ris:vhsuwp:2018_181&r=env |
| By: | Ordoñez, Pablo J.; Baylis, Kathy; Ramirez, Isabel |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Behavioral & Institutional Economics, Rural/Community Development |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274319&r=env |
| By: | Srivastava, Lorie; Hand, Michael S.; Kim, John |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274323&r=env |
| By: | Quiñones, Esteban J.; Nobles, Jenna; Riosmena, Fernando; Nawrotzki, Raphael |
| Keywords: | International Development, Household and Labor Economics, Natural Resource Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274245&r=env |
| By: | Liu, Hongxing; Zhang, Wendong; Irwin, Elena G. |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274426&r=env |
| By: | Chen, Chen-Ti; Lade, Gabriel; Crespi, John M.; Keiser, David A. |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274410&r=env |
| By: | Jacqueline Doremus (Department of Economics, California Polytechnic State University) |
| Abstract: | Does Forest Stewardship Council certification of \responsible" commercial forestrychange nutrition, health and wealth for indigenous peoples, like the Aka of the Congo Basin? Using hand-collected data from the boundary of a certified and an uncertified forest in the Republic of Congo five years after certification, I compare nutrition, health, and wealth using questions that are locally salient and survey timing designed to reach semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers. Though I only observe outcomes after certification, I find suggestive evidence that forest certification may cause increased food insecurity and illness frequency for Aka households. I find no evidence of increased material wealth; instead, the poorest 15th percentile is poorer. Forest certification includes a bundle of activities, including participatory mapping, greater market integration and hunting restrictions, making it difficult to pinpoint the mechanisms driving these results. |
| Keywords: | Forestry; eco-label; sustainability; indigenous peoples |
| JEL: | O13 O18 Q56 |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cpl:wpaper:1804&r=env |
| By: | Crane-Droesch, Andrew; Marshall, Elizabeth; Riddle, Anne; Rosch, Stephanie D.; Cooper, Joseph C.; Wallander, Steven |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Risk and Uncertainty, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274292&r=env |
| By: | Ifft, Jennifer E.; Spini, Pietro; Wilcox, Steven |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis, Ag Finance and Farm Management |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274423&r=env |
| By: | Ji, Chen; Chen, Shuai; Jin, Songqing |
| Keywords: | Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:273863&r=env |
| By: | Weng, Weizhe; Boyle, Kevin J.; Carey, Cayelan; Cobourn, Kelly M.; Dugan, Hilary; Farrell, Kaitlin; Hanson, Paul; Brahma, Sreeya Brahma; Ward, Nicole; Weathers, Kathleen |
| Keywords: | Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274030&r=env |
| By: | Silva, Felipe; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Perrin, Richard K. |
| Keywords: | Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies, Production Economics, Natural Resource Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274370&r=env |
| By: | Zawojska, Ewa; Czajkowski, Mikolaj; Giergiczny, Marek |
| Keywords: | Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats, Behavioral & Institutional Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274019&r=env |
| By: | McCullough, Rebecca; McCallister, Donna; Williams, Ryan B.; Golden, Bill; Guerrero, Bridget |
| Keywords: | Crop Production/Industries |
| Date: | 2018–01–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:saea18:266581&r=env |
| By: | Li, Mengyao; Zhang, Xin; Ferreira, Susana; Smith, Travis A. |
| Keywords: | Behavioral & Institutional Economics, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Household and Labor Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274126&r=env |
| By: | Yeh, D. Adeline; Fan, Xiaoli; Gomez, Miguel I.; Drummond, Francis |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Ag Finance and Farm Management, Agribusiness Economics and Management |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274411&r=env |
| By: | Lewis, David; Dundas, Steven J.; Kling, David; Lew, Daniel K.; Hacker, Sally |
| Keywords: | Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Natural Resource Economics, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274027&r=env |
| By: | Paul Pelzl (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam); Steven (S.) Poelhekke (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Nederlandsche Bank) |
| Abstract: | We analyse the local effect of exogenous shocks to the value of mineral deposits at the district level in Indonesia using a panel of manufacturing plants. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to model and estimate the effect of heterogeneity in natural resource extraction methods. We find that in areas where mineral extraction is relatively capital-intensive, mining booms cause virtually no upward pressure on manufacturing earnings per worker, and both producers of traded and local goods benefit from mining booms in terms of employment. In contrast, labour-intensive mining booms drive up local manufacturing wages such that producers of traded goods reduce employment. This source of heterogeneity helps to explain the mixed evidence for `Dutch disease' effects in the literature. In addition, we find no evidence that fiscal revenue sharing between sub-national districts leads to any spillovers. |
| Keywords: | Dutch disease; natural resources; mining; labour intensity; Indonesia |
| JEL: | L16 L72 O12 O13 Q30 |
| Date: | 2018–09–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tin:wpaper:20180073&r=env |
| By: | Petrusa, Jeffrey E.; Ragnauth, Shaun; Creason, Jared; Antonio Sanjinez, Katherine; Hofmann, Julia; Beach, Robert H. |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Agribusiness Economics and Management, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274412&r=env |
| By: | Geir B. Asheim; Tapan Mitra |
| Abstract: | We examine the investment rule that must be satisfied by an efficient and egalitarian path in a discrete-time version of the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow model of capital accumulation and resource depletion. In the discrete-time model, competitive valuation of net investments in terms of early and late pricing differs. We redefine Hartwick's rule to require zero value of net investments at a valuation rule intermediate between these two. Using this definition, we show that along an efficient and egalitarian path, Hartwick's rule is followed in all time periods. We thereby establish the converse of Hartwick's result in discrete time, and we do so under weaker assumptions than those in the existing literature on how output varies as a function of capital and resource use. Our redefinition of Hartwick's rule follows naturally if discrete time is viewed as providing information at discrete points in time of an underlying continuous-time process. |
| Keywords: | intergenerational equity, sustainable development |
| JEL: | D63 O41 Q01 |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_7206&r=env |
| By: | Wallander, Steven; Hellerstein, Daniel M.; Johnsen, Reid |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Natural Resource Economics, Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274457&r=env |
| By: | Taheripour, Farzad; Scott, Don; Tyner, Wallace E. |
| Keywords: | Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Natural Resource Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:273838&r=env |
| By: | Mojduszka, Eliza M. |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274294&r=env |
| By: | Pena-Levano, Luis M.; Preckel, Paul; Sanders, John H.; Jerez, Kevin; Lowenberg-Deboer, Jess |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Agribusiness Economics and Management, Ag Finance and Farm Management |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274419&r=env |
| By: | Van Deynze, Braeden; Swinton, Scott M.; Hennessy, David A. |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Natural Resource Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274360&r=env |
| By: | Yu, Charng-Jiun; Du, Xiaodong; Phaneuf, Daniel J. |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Agribusiness Economics and Management, Ag Finance and Farm Management |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274428&r=env |
| By: | Zapata, Samuel D.; Alabi, Olufemi J.; Sétamou, Mamoudou; Peguero, Felipe |
| Keywords: | Ag Finance and Farm Management, Production Economics, Risk and Uncertainty |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274104&r=env |
| By: | Dumortier, Jerome; Dokoohaki, Hamze; Elobeid, Amani E.; Hayes, Dermot J.; Laird, David |
| Keywords: | Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies, International Trade, Natural Resource Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274372&r=env |
| By: | Sun, Shanxia; Hertel, Thomas W.; Valqui, Brayam; Webster, Mort |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274290&r=env |
| By: | Sophie Clot; Gilles Grolleau; Lisette Ibanez |
| Abstract: | Rather than just examining moral licensing and cleansing at an aggregate level, we investigate experimentally the moral dynamics at an individual level. We also propose a formal definition of moral consistency or inconsistency (i.e., moral licensing and/or moral cleansing). We found that half our sample present inconsistent pro-environmental behaviour, independently of the way behavior is elicited (positive or negative framing). Men seem to behave more consistently over time, but when they compensate, they license (respectively cleanse) in a higher (respectively lesser) extent than women. We suggest that policies can improve their performances by avoiding a ‘one size fits all approach’ and take into account this heterogeneity of moral dynamics.. |
| Keywords: | cleansing, dictator game, licensing, moral in(consistency), taking game |
| JEL: | C91 D03 |
| Date: | 2018–09 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lam:wpceem:18-17&r=env |
| By: | McGrath, Simon; Alla-Mensah, Joyceline; Langthaler, Margarita |
| Abstract: | While Vocational Education and Training (VET) was almost absent from earlier international development frameworks, the Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) attach greater importance to it. VET is an integral part of the education SDG (SDG 4) and its transversal role for a global transformation is widely acknowledged. However, the conceptual and policy debate is lagging behind. This Briefing Paper analyses the VET and SDG debates from different angles. In the first part, the paper traces the history of VET in international development cooperation and summarises the discussion on current VET concepts, policies and practices in the SDG context with a focus on migration. In the second part, the Briefing Paper, in drawing on a number of theoretical approaches, examines how skills and VET are conceptualised in the broader context of poverty reduction, growth and decent work. Finally, the Paper reflects on the potential contribution of Germanophone VET models to a new human and sustainable development paradigm that arises out of the Agenda 2030 and the SDGs. |
| Keywords: | Vocational Education and Training,Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),Poverty Reduction,Growth,Decent Work,Migration,Dual system of apprenticeship training |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:oefseb:18&r=env |
| By: | Wu, Yu; Mullan, Katrina; Biggs, Trent; Caviglia-Harris, Jill L.; Harris, Daniel; Sills, Erin O. |
| Keywords: | Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Natural Resource Economics, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274012&r=env |
| By: | Adamowicz, Wiktor L.; Lloyd-Smith, Patrick; Zawojska, Ewa |
| Keywords: | Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Behavioral & Institutional Economics, Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274015&r=env |
| By: | Liu, Zhongyuan; Dorfman, Jeffrey H.; Bergstrom, John C.; Chen, Huiguang |
| Keywords: | Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Household and Labor Economics, Behavioral & Institutional Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274008&r=env |
| By: | McFadden, Jonathan; Smith, David J.; Wallander, Steven |
| Keywords: | Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies, Production Economics, Natural Resource Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274385&r=env |
| By: | Queiroz, Pedro; Silva, Felipe; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274437&r=env |
| By: | Willis, Kaila; Hansen, Kristiana M.; Peck, Dannele E. |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274296&r=env |
| By: | Sharma, Bijay P.; Yu, Tun-Hsiang Edward; English, Burton C.; Boyer, Christopher M. |
| Keywords: | Agribusiness Economics and Management, Industrial Org./Supply Chain Management, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:273787&r=env |
| By: | Wrenn, Douglas H.; Klaiber, Allen; Newburn, David |
| Keywords: | Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation, Natural Resource Economics, Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274029&r=env |
| By: | Chia-Lin Chang (Department of Applied Economics Department of Finance National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.); Jukka Ilomäki (Faculty of Management University of Tampere, Finland.); Hannu Laurila (Faculty of Management University of Tampere, Finland.); Michael McAleer (Department of Quantitative Finance National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan and Econometric Institute Erasmus School of Economics Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Department of Quantitative Economics Complutense University of Madrid, Spain And Institute of Advanced Sciences Yokohama National University, Japan.) |
| Abstract: | The paper examines whether the moving average (MA) technique can beat random market timing in traditional and newer branches of an industrial sector. The sector considered is the energy sector, divided into balanced stock portfolios of fossil and renewable energy companies. Eight representative firms are selected for both portfolios. The paper finds that MA timing outperforms random timing with the portfolio of renewable energy companies, whereas the result is less clear with the portfolio of fossil energy companies. Thus, there seems to be more forecastable stochastic trends in sunrise branches than in sunset branches. |
| Keywords: | Moving averages; Market timing; Industrial sector; Energy sector; Fossil fuels; Renewable energy; Random timing; Sunrise branches; Sunset branches. |
| JEL: | C22 C32 L71 L72 Q16 Q42 Q47 |
| Date: | 2018–09 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ucm:doicae:1824&r=env |
| By: | Fleming, Patrick; Lichtenberg, Erik; Newburn, David |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats, Behavioral & Institutional Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274429&r=env |
| By: | Ogunnaike, Maria Gbemisola; Shittu, Adebayo M.; Fapojuwo, Oluwakemi Enitan; Kehinde, Mojisola Olanike |
| Keywords: | Food Safety and Nutrition, Household and Labor Economics, Natural Resource Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:273908&r=env |
| By: | Davide Antonioli (Università degli Studi "G. D'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara, Italy); Grazia Cecere (Télécom Ecole de Management, Institut Mines-Télécom, Paris, France); Massimiliano Mazzanti (Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara, Italy) |
| Abstract: | Information communication technology (ICT) and environmental innovation (EI) are relevant waves of the ongoing technological revolution. We study the complementarity in innovation adoption to test the research hypothesis that the higher the diffusion and intensity of usage of ICT and EI, the higher a firm’s productivity performance might be. However, it is not certain that the use of different innovations stemming from different innovation paths generates higher productivity. To test our hypothesis we use original survey data concerning manufacturing firms in Northeast Italy including detailed information on both ICT and EI. Empirical evidence shows that there are still wide margins to improve the integration between EI and ICT in order to exploit their potential benefits on productivity. The awareness of specific synergies seems to mainly characterize the heavy polluting firms that are subject to more stringent environmental constraints, while some trade-offs tend to emerge for the remaining firms. |
| Keywords: | ICT, environmental innovations, polluting sectors, complementarity, labour productivity |
| Date: | 2018–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:srt:wpaper:1118&r=env |
| By: | Dong, Xiao; Klaiber, Allen; Gopalakrishnan, Sathya; Wrenn, Douglas H. |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Natural Resource Economics, Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274446&r=env |
| By: | Schons Do Valle, Stella Z.; Amacher, Gregory S.; Cobourn, Kelly M.; Arantes, Caroline |
| Keywords: | Natural Resource Economics, Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Household and Labor Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274318&r=env |
| By: | Geussens, Katrien; Van Den Broeck, Goedele; Vanderhaegen, Koen; Verbist, Bruno; Maertens, Miet |
| Keywords: | Resource /Energy Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2018–09–21 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:kucawp:276470&r=env |
| By: | Biedenbach, Abby M.; Brorsen, Wade B.; Biermacher, Jon T.; Rogers, James; Marburger, David A.; Richards, Austin |
| Keywords: | Risk and Uncertainty |
| Date: | 2018–01–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:saea18:266611&r=env |
| By: | Zhong, Hua; Taylor, Michael H.; Rollins, Kimberly S.; Manning, Dale; Goemans, Christopher |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Natural Resource Economics, Household and Labor Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274432&r=env |
| By: | Kim, Haein; Du, Xiaodong; Johnston, Craig |
| Keywords: | Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis, Natural Resource Economics, Behavioral & Institutional Economics |
| Date: | 2018–06–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea18:274451&r=env |