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Tian, Huilan 1964. "Three essays on trade, resource and environment." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38525.
Full textThe first essay develops a model of international duopoly involving competition both in prices and in levels of environmental friendliness, and studies the implications of government policies. It is shown that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, a regulatory increase in the minimum required level of environmental friendliness of the imported goods may harm the home firm, and may result in an increase in the volume of imports. It may also have adverse effects on the environment. Whether consumers lose or gain from such a regulatory increase depends on consumption spillover effects. We also show that, under certain conditions, the duopoly's equilibrium choice of levels of environmental friendliness is socially optimal.
The second essay investigates the properties of the dynamics of population and resource in a model where the objective function is to maximize the utility level of the least advantaged generation. Unlike in models with a utilitarian objective where the typical outcome is a unique steady state, it is found in our model that there is a continuum of steady states. Which steady state will be approached depends on the initial conditions. We show that for relatively large values of the resource stock, each steady state is conditionally stable in the saddlepoint sense; but for small values of the resource stock, the approach path to a steady state is non-monotone in the state space. Along the approach path to a steady state, the implicit discount rate varies over time.
The third essay extends the existing literature on regulation of polluting firms by taking into account the dynamics of investment in pollution abatement capital. It confirms that, under perfect competition, a Pigouvian tax can create the correct incentive for firms to invest and guide firms to achieve the social optimum. This tax path is time consistent. However, when there is a large polluter with price taking behavior, while an efficient and time consistent tax path exists, it is no longer subgame perfect unless the damage cost function is linear in emission. A non-linear taxation rule needs to be designed to achieve the socially optimal outcome. In the case of monopoly, a pair of instruments, an emission tax and a production subsidy, can lead the monopolist to achieve the social optimum. However, if pre-commitment is not possible, it is shown that linear feedback rules cannot achieve the first best outcome.
Sun, Bin. "Essays on environmental economics and resource management." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1180553781.
Full textKuusela, Olli-Pekka. "Three Essays in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50508.
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Byerly, Flint Hilary. "Increasing Private Contributions To Environmental Goods With Behavioral Insights." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2019. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1051.
Full textDury, Karen. "Essays in environmental and natural resource economics as a contribution to sustainable development." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1996. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14840/.
Full textSimms, Jason. "Turning Water into Wine: The Political Economy of the Environment in Southern California's Wine Country." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4581.
Full textGhosh, Soumendra N. "Measuring Natural Resource Scarcity Under Common Property Environment and Uncertainty: An Interpretive Analysis." DigitalCommons@USU, 1987. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4209.
Full textHaskell, Hilary A. "The Seven Deadly Sins of Sustainability: Is Capitalism Really at Fault?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/846.
Full textFadly, Dalia [Verfasser], and Mohamed [Akademischer Betreuer] Farzanegan. "Essays in Environmental and Resource Economics / Dalia Fadly ; Betreuer: Mohamed Farzanegan." Marburg : Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/119136867X/34.
Full textStolper, Samuel. "Oil and Water: Essays on the Economics of Natural Resource Usage." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493345.
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Vosooghi, Sareh. "Three essays on information and transboundary problems in environmental and resource economics." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22867.
Full textMeeusen, Karl M. "FORESTS, CARBON, AND BIOMASS ELECTRICITY GENERATION: TWO ESSAYS IN NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316202710.
Full textAlsharif, Nouf Nasser. "Three essays on growth and economic diversification in resource-rich countries." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/70478/.
Full textDaigneault, Adam J. "Fire, carbon, timber, and trees three essays in natural resource economics /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155657159.
Full textSahlén, Linda. "Essays on environmental and development economics : Public policy, resource prices and global warming." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Nationalekonomi, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1957.
Full textSahlén, Linda. "Essays on environmental and development economics : public policy, resource prices and global warming /." Umeå : Department of Economics, Umeå University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1957.
Full textGeleta, Solomon. "Measuring Citizens' Preferences for Protecting Environmental Resources| Applications of Choice Experiment Surveys, Social Network Analysis and Deliberative Citizens' Juries." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10262222.
Full textMany reasons have been suggested as explanation for observed differences in citizens' environmental conservation projects policy choices and willingness-to-pay (WTP) values. Some people attribute this distinctive decision behavior to contrasts in the overall policy outcome expectations (preference heterogeneity) and/or differences in reactions to the changes in the environmental attributes (response heterogeneity). Others attribute this to differences in individual choice rationales, personalities, encounters, and past and present experiences. In other words, regardless of the possibility that outcomes are the same, people do not have the same emotions, convictions, disposition, or motivations.
In three separate essays, I investigate the possible reasons for the observed differences in citizens' environmental conservation policy choices and examine how preference and response heterogeneity arise. In the first essay, I ask if a priori environmental damage perception is a source of heterogeneity affecting conservation option choice decisions. In the second, I investigate if social networks (interactions among decision-making agents) affect choice decisions. In the third, I investigate if preferences change when decision making agents are allowed to deliberate among peers.
For the first essay, I conducted an on-line choice experiment (CE) survey. The survey asked questions that help to measure citizen preference for protecting environmental public goods, ascertain the value local residents are willing-to-pay (WTP), and determine how preference heterogeneity arises. CE attributes included groundwater use (measured by share of total water use from groundwater), aquatic habitat (measured by count of spawning kokanee salmon return), natural habitat health (measured by the sensitive ecosystem area reclaimed), and rural character (measured by a decrease in urban sprawl and/or a decrease in population density in rural areas). I used a special property levy as the vehicle of payment. Random parameter logit (RP) and latent class (LC) models were estimated to capture response and preference heterogeneity. The results suggest that (1) both preference and response heterogeneities were found for the choices and all environmental attributes respectively (2) respondents who have a higher value for one environmental good will have a higher value for other environmental goods, and (3) a priori damage perception could be one of the sources of response and preference heterogeneity.
In the same survey, I included people's egocentric networks, interactions, environment related activities and perceptions to empirically evaluate whether social network effect (SNE) is a source of systematic differences in preference. I estimate consumer preferences for a hypothetical future environmental conservation management alternative described by its attributes within a Nested Logit Model: nesting broader and distinct conservation options within choices impacted by individual’s network structure. The results show that some network centrality measures capture preference heterogeneity, and consequently the differences in WTP values in a systematic way.
Third, I compare the value estimated based on the traditional choice experiment (CE) with the results obtained using the citizen jury (CJ) approach or a group-based approach or also called the "Market Stall" in some literature. I estimate the effect of deliberation on conservation choice outcomes by removing any significant differences between the people who participated in the CJ (people who volunteered to be contacted again after deliberation treatment) and those people who did the survey twice but did not volunteer for CJ (control group) in terms of their socioeconomic status and be able attribute the changes in preferences to deliberation treatment only. CJ approach involved two 90 minute deliberations held over two days to discuss and consider their preferences and WTP values with other household members. Results show that deliberation improves individuals' valuation process and there is observed difference in choice outcomes between the deliberation treatment and control groups. Both preference and response heterogeneity relatively vanish when people were allowed to deliberate among peers.
Tymoshenko, O. "Ecological and economic aspects of resource provision of mining enterprise." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/40865.
Full textParks, Jacob. "OIL, POLITICS OF THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND THE PERSIAN GULF." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4109.
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Nemati, Mehdi. "ESSAYS ON ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/agecon_etds/66.
Full textPassewitz, Gregory R. "Social Exchange Theory and Volunteer Organizations: Patterns of Participation in Four Environmental/Natural Resource Organizations." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392653996.
Full textParvez, Md Rezwanul. "Essays on Land Conversion, Crop Acreage Response, and Land Conservation Benefits| Evidence from the Dakotas." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10641458.
Full textThis research is composed of three essays. It highlights the driving factors of land conversion and crop acreage response focusing on North Dakota agriculture and estimates the benefits of conservation land measures at west central South Dakota watershed. The major questions that are addressed here are how and why agricultural producers decide among different land use choices, crop selection, and land conservation measures and how their decision vary over time? The first essay examines the long run land conversion trend interconnected with change in crop, oil, and ethanol prices, climate and renewable fuel policy mandates. Data are obtained from Cropland Data Layer from 1997 to 2015 period of National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) at the USDA. The first essay employs a Seemingly Unrelated Tobit Regression approach to better understand the connection between land conversion and crop prices, biofuel policies, biophysical environment. Key findings indicate land-use conversion from grassland to cropland is relatively higher across the ND counties.
The second essay is designed to investigate the relationship between crop acreage response and socio-economic and environmental drivers. We use prices for crude oil, planted acres of major crops (corn, wheat, soybean, hay) and prices from the period of 1990 to 2015. This essay focuses on corn acreage response due to crop prices, energy policies, climate and other socio-economic factors using a Fixed Effect parameter framework.
The final essay estimates environmental benefits due to adoption of conservation practices. In other words, it analyzes the economic and environmental benefits of implemented conservation practices at Bad River watershed in South Dakota using an integrated framework. For example, in an article in the Global Journal of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development (2016), a Benefit Cost Analysis model is utilized to assess soil conservation benefits and evaluate economic impacts of conservation measures at a watershed scale. The economic analysis includes estimation of benefit cost ratio, annual rate of return of conservation practices. Key findings suggest that benefit value of sediment reduction average $2.13 per ton expressed in constant (year = 2000) dollars and the ratio of benefits to costs is greater than 1.
Fadali, Elizabeth. "Water Use, Virtual Water and Water Footprints| Economic Modeling and Policy Analyses." Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3608707.
Full textThe theme that binds together the four papers in this dissertation is the tracking of physical quantities of water used by industries in the economy, and an exploration of whether and how this tracking could be helpful in informing water policies, as applied to the state of Nevada or sub-regions of Nevada. The concept of water footprints has been wildly popular in disciplines outside of economics and has been used to help make policy decisions normally considered to lie within the economist's realm. Yet many economists shun 'footprints' in general and water footprints in particular, seeing them as descriptive methods that have little or nothing to add to policy analysis. This thesis attempts to bridge a gap between economists, engineers and planners and the popular imagination about what economic concepts footprints are related to and how they can best be used in policy analysis.
Mmopelwa, Gagoitseope. "The value of the Okavango delta a natural resource accounting approach /." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12072006-152953.
Full textGoodenberger, James Stevenson. "Three Essays Regarding the Economics of Resources with Spatial-Dynamic Transition Processes." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468964324.
Full textFernandez, Cheryl Joy Jardiolin. "Marine protected area : a case study in north-easter Iloilo, Philippines : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management in Economics, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." Massey University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1250.
Full textMatheis, Michael Roy. "Mining Booms and Busts: New Evidence on the Consequences of Mining in the U.S." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556593.
Full textHalpern, Gator. "Aquculture and Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/40.
Full textHull, Robert. "Environmental Economics: A Case Study for the Big Cottonwood Canyon Watershed." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/73.
Full textFoster, Alec. "A Contingent Valuation of Tampa’s Urban Forest Resource." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3551.
Full textDuru, Christian Udogadi. "Environmental Degradation: Key Challenge to Sustainable Economic Development in the Niger Delta." ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/114.
Full textGilbert, Ethan. "Water Policy: The World's Most Important Resource Politicized." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/520.
Full textMeeks, Robyn. "Essays on the Economics of Household Water Access in Developing Countries." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10367.
Full textCicala, Steven Joseph. "Essays on the Allocation of Scarce Resources among Competing Ends." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10994.
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Spash, Clive L. "The Shallow or the Deep Ecological Economics Movement?" Elsevier, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.05.016.
Full textBenincasa, Stefano. "Evolutionary Behavioral Economics: Essays on Adaptive Rationality in Complex Environments." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/268752.
Full textStark, Alyson N. "The Consequences of Increasing Ocean Acidification on Local and Global Fishing Industries." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/70.
Full textPritzlaff, Richard G. "A Meta-Analysis of Successful Community-Based Payment for Ecosystem Services Programs." Thesis, Prescott College, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10822273.
Full textEcosystem services (ES), payments for ecosystem services (PES), and the development of markets for PES are transformational concepts and practices that emerged from environmental and ecological economics. Although the establishment of regulatory markets tends to be “top down,” there is evidence that more locally acceptable and successful markets tend to come from the community, from the “bottom up.” This meta-analysis analyzes 20 recent articles that examined approximately 454 PES cases from around the world, most organized from the bottom up. Cross-case analysis reveals possible best practices. Involving communities in design, decision-making, governance, and operation of local PES programs is found in many cases to contribute to improvements in both ecosystems and community livelihoods. Devolving project administration and ES provision monitoring to the local level is found to lower costs, increase project legitimacy, community equity, and leaves efficiency and fairness tradeoff decision-making in the hands of local communities. This in turn adds to feelings of competence, autonomy, and control. The experience of cooperative learning, skill acquisition, and enhanced individual and community capacities that results from participation in PES program design is found to positively influence social, cultural, economic, and multilevel political dynamics, allowing local sustainable resource use and management to emerge. In several cases, there are indications that this leads to a changed local and regional political economy due to successful value capture of enhanced ES resulting from restored ecosystems, as well as indications of other transformative changes in communities. These findings are used to provide recommendations to a watershed restoration initiative in the borderlands of Southern Arizona.
Kerr, Geoffrey N. "The economics of managing congestion: with special reference to backcountry recreation." Lincoln University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1971.
Full textChildress, Ronald Jr. "Water Quality Trading Markets for the Kentucky River Basin: A Point Source Profile." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/agecon_etds/8.
Full textPenn, Jerrod M. "ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES, STATED PREFERENCES, AND HYPOTHETICAL BIAS." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/agecon_etds/57.
Full textMekonnen, Kefyalew. "The economics of developing water resource projects in the Ethiopian Nile River basin : their environmental, and transboundary implications /." The economics of developing water resource projects in the Ethiopian Nile River basinRead the abstract of the thesis, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17380.pdf.
Full textAllison, Isaiah. "Techno-economic evaluation of associated gas usage for gas turbine power generation in the presence of degradation & resource decline." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2014. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/9233.
Full textUehara, Takuro. "A Systems Approach to Ecological Economic Models Developed Progressively in Three Interwoven Articles." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/553.
Full textWood, Richard, Konstantin Stadler, Moana Simas, Tatyana Bulavskaya, Stefan Giljum, Franz Stephan Lutter, and Arnold Tukker. "Growth in Environmental Footprints and Environmental Impacts Embodied in Trade: Resource Efficiency Indicators from EXIOBASE3." Wiley, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12735.
Full textStauth, Roy Bryan. "An environmental evaluation methodology for improving resource allocation decisions : a treatise with selected South African case studies." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18594.
Full textTalbot-Jones, Julia. "The Institutional Economics of Granting a River Legal Standing." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/132935.
Full textAlgermissen, Gordon H. "California Water Management: Establishing a Framework for an Efficient Future." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/733.
Full textHerzberg, Julika Verfasser], Oliver [Akademischer Betreuer] [Lorz, and Thomas S. [Akademischer Betreuer] Lontzek. "Essays on environmental and resource economics: evaluation of voluntary and mandatory policies / Julika Herzberg ; Jens Oliver Lorz, Thomas S. Lontzek." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1238149499/34.
Full textOuellette, Kayla. "Agriculture, Environmental Restoration and Ecosystem Services: Assessing the Costs of Water Storage on Agricultural Lands in South Florida." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5090.
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