Recent Advances in Environmental Economics

410 Pages·2002·13.933 MB·English

by  John A. List, De, Aart De Zeeuw

Recent Advances in Environmental
Economics
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NEW HORIZONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
Series Editors:Wallace E.Oates,Professor ofEconomics,University ofMaryland,USA and
Henk Folmer,Professor ofGeneral Economics,Wageningen University and Professor of
Environmental Economics,Tilburg University,The Netherlands
This important series is designed to make a significant contribution to the development of
the principles and practices ofenvironmental economics.It includes both theoretical and
empirical work.International in scope,it addresses issues ofcurrent and future concern in
both East and West and in developed and developing countries.
The main purpose ofthe series is to create a forum for the publication ofhigh quality
work and to show how economic analysis can make a contribution to understanding and
resolving the environmental problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century.
Recent titles in the series include:
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A Survey ofCurrent Issues
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An Analysis ofthe Ancillary Benefits ofReducing Carbon Emissions
Dirk T.G.Rübbelke
Pollution,Property and Prices
An Essay in Policy-making & Economics
J.H.Dales
The Contingent Valuation ofNatural Parks
Assessing the Warmglow Propensity Factor
Paulo A.L.D.Nunes
Environmental Policy Making in Economics
with Prior Tax Distortions
Edited by Lawrence H.Goulder
Recent Advances in Environmental Economics
Edited by John A.List and Aart de Zeeuw
Sustainability and Endogenous Growth
Karen Pittel
The Economic Valuation ofthe Environment and Public Policy
A Hedonic Approach
Noboru Hidano
Global Climate Change
The Science,Economics and Politics
James M.Griffin
Global Environmental Change in Alpine Regions
Recognition,Impact,Adaptation and Mitigation
Edited by Karl W.Steininger and Hannelore Weck-Hannemann
Environmental Management and the Competitiveness ofthe Nature-Based
Tourism Destinations
Twan Huybers and JeffBennett
Recent Advances in
Environmental
Economics
Edited by
John A. List
Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource
Economics,University of Maryland,US
Aart de Zeeuw
Professor of Environmental Economics,Department of
Economics and CentER,Tilburg University,The Netherlands
NEW HORIZONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham,UK • Northampton,MA,USA
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Library ofCongress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Recent advances in environmental economics / edited by John A.List,Aart de Zeeuw.
p.cm.—(New horizons in environmental economics)
Papers from a workshop held in Orlando,Florida,30 November–2 December 2000.
Includes index.
1. Environmental economics—Congresses. 2. Environmental policy—
Congresses. 3. International cooperation—Congresses. 4. Greenhouse gas
mitigation—Congresses. I. List,John A.,1968– II. Zeeuw,Aart de,1952–
III. Series.
HD75.6.R426 2002
333.7—dc21 2002021391
ISBN1 84376 002 9
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd,Bodmin,Cornwall
Contents
List of contributors vii
Introduction ix
1 A reconsideration of environmental federalism 1
Wallace E.Oates
2 Global environmental governance,political lobbying and
transboundary pollution 33
Surjinder Johal and Alistair Ulph
3 Endogenous transfrontier pollution 59
Michael Rauscher
4 Allocating greenhouse gas emissions among countries with
mobilepopulations 84
Michael Hoel
5 Environmental regulation and international trade:a general
equilibrium approach 98
Chris Elbers and Cees Withagen
6 The ups and downs of the environmental Kuznets curve 119
Arik Levinson
7 Participation in industry-wide voluntary approaches:
short-runvs.long-run equilibrium 142
Na Li Dawson and Kathleen Segerson
8 Irreversible development of a natural resource:management
rulesand policy issues when direct use values and
environmentalvalues are uncertain 158
Anastasios Xepapadeas
9 A model of neighbourhood conditions and internal
householdenvironments 182
Mark Agee and Thomas Crocker
10 Environmental policy and the timing of drilling and
productioninthe oil and gas industry 202
Mitch Kunce,Shelby Gerking and William Morgan
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11 Using flexible scenarios in benefit estimation:an application
tothecluster rule and the pulp and paper industry 232
Susan Kask,Todd Cherry,Jason Shogren and Peter Frykblom
12 Trade-offat the trough:TMDLs and the evolving status of
USwaterquality policy 257
Carol Mansfield and V.Kerry Smith
13 Heterogeneous preferences and complex environmental goods:
thecase of ecosystem restoration 286
J.Walter Milon and David Scrogin
14 Incentives in public goods experiments:implications for the
environment 309
Jacob Goeree,Charles Holt and Susan Laury
15 An experimental test for options value:relevance for
contingentvaluation elicitation 340
David Bjornstad,Paul Brewer,Ronald Cummings and
Michael McKee
16 Is the scope test meaningful in the presence of other-regarding
behaviour? 365
William Schulze,Gregory Poe,Ian Bateman and Daniel Rondeau
Index 385
Contributors
Mark Agee,Penn State University,USA
Ian Bateman,University of East Anglia,UK
David Bjornstad,Oak Ridge National Laboratory,USA
Paul Brewer, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong
Kong
Todd Cherry,Appalachian State University,USA
Thomas Crocker,University of Wyoming,USA
Ronald Cummings,Georgia State University,USA
Na Li Dawson,University of Connecticut,USA
Chris Elbers,Free University Amsterdam,The Netherlands
Peter Frykblom,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Uppsala
Shelby Gerking,University of Central Florida,USA
Jacob Goeree,University of Virginia,USA
Michael Hoel,University of Oslo,Norway
Charles Holt,University of Virginia,USA
Surjinder Johal,University of Southampton,UK
Susan Kask,Western Carolina University,USA
Mitch Kunce,University of Wyoming,USA
Susan Laury,Georgia State University,USA
Arik Levinson,Georgetown University,USA
Carol Mansfield,Research Triangle Institute,USA
Michael McKee,University of New Mexico,USA
J.Walter Milon,University of Central Florida,USA
William Morgan,University of Wyoming,USA
Wallace E.Oates,University of Maryland,USA
Gregory Poe,Cornell University,USAand University of East Anglia,UK
Michael Rauscher,University of Rostock,Germany
Daniel Rondeau,University of Victoria,Canada
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William Schulze,Cornell University and University of Washington,USA
David Scrogin,University of Central Florida,USA
Kathleen Segerson,University of Connecticut,USA
Jason Shogren,University of Wyoming,USA
V.Kerry Smith,North Carolina State University,USA
Alistair Ulph,University of Southampton,UK
Cees Withagen, Free University Amsterdam and Tilburg University, The
Netherlands
Anastasios Xepapadeas,University of Crete,Greece
Introduction
A few years ago, the Department of Economics at the University of
Central Florida decided to commit a considerable amount of resources in
the area of environmental and resource economics. The Galloway
Professorship in Environmental and Resource Economics was established
and preference was given to this research area in the recruitment of junior
faculty. In line with this policy of ‘selected excellence’, the Center for
Environmental Policy Analysis,which has a mission to improve the quality
of Florida’s public and private decisions that have environmental, eco-
nomic,and resource-use implications,was created and the idea was born to
inaugurate this institute with a premier conference in Orlando.
A few years earlier, the CentER for Economic Research at Tilburg
University in the Netherlands had developed a successful niche in environ-
mental and resource economics. The optimal strategy was to combine
forces and to organize the conference jointly.A major notion driving this
cooperation was to bring together different strands of research in environ-
mental and resource economics that could be considered frontier develop-
ments in both Europe and North America. In Europe, the dominant
direction in the area seems to be a strong use of theoretical applications to
solve policy problems,whereas in North America one distinct trend seems
to be toward a more empirically oriented approach. The interaction
between the two strands has traditionally been somewhat weak,as schol-
ars tend to meet in large conferences with separate (often parallel) sessions
or organise distinct workshops. The UCF/CentER conference aimed to
produce a forum for a small group of leading researchers from these dis-
tinct directions.The workshop came to fruition in Orlando,30 November–
2 December 2000.
Our invitation policy was simple: a theme was not compulsory, rather
our main focus was on research quality.While the size ofthe workshop only
permitted us to invite a handful of scholars,we were pleasantly surprised
that several top-notch scholars in this area ofresearch were open to the idea
of attending the conference.During the workshop the quality of research
presented led many to believe that a refereed volume based on the papers
should be pursued. It was clear that the participants were willing to con-
tribute manuscripts toward a volume that could become a landmark of
recent advances in environmental and resource economics.
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