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Preface
..............................
v
I GENERAL
ISSUES
1
1.
The Nature and Significance of Resource
and Environmental Economics
3
1.1.
Introduction
.................... 3
1.2.
How are the Subjects of Economics,
Natural Resource Economics, Environmental
Economics and Ecological Economics Related
to One Another?
.................. 4
1.2.1.
The subject matter of economics
.... 4
1.2.2.
The nature and coverage of natural
resource economics, environmental
economics and ecological economics
. . 5
1.3.
Further Observations on the Development
of Economic Thought about the Significance
of Natural Resources and Environmental
Conditions
..................... 9
1.3.1.
Changing emphasis on the relevance
of natural resources for economic
growth and scarcity
........... 9
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1.3.2.
Changing emphasis on the significance
of material versus nonmaterial goods
for economic welfare
........... 11
1.4.
Notes on the Coverage in this Book of Modern
Issues in Resource and Environmental
Economics
..................... 13
1.5.
Concluding Comments
.............. 14
1.6.
Keywords
..................... 15
1.7.
Questions for Review and Discussion
....... 15
Readings and References
.................. 16
2.
Different Types of Approaches to Environmental
and Resource Economics
21
2.1.
Introduction
.................... 21
2.2.
Neoclassical Economics and Environmental
and Resource Economics
............. 23
2.3.
New Institutional Economics
........... 27
2.4.
Behavioral and Psychological Economics
..... 31
2.5.
Conventional (Old) Institutional Economics
... 36
2.6.
The Austrian School of Economics
........ 41
2.7.
Game Theory and Some of Its Applications
to Environmental Conflict
............ 42
2.7.1.
A prisoners dilemma problem
...... 43
2.7.2.
A game involving a battle of the
sexes
—
further application
....... 44
2.7.3.
Games against nature and environmental
outcomes
................. 45
2.8.
Evolution, Coevolution and Limits to Economic
Growth Imposed by Natural Resource and
Environmental Constraints
............ 50
2.8.1.
Evolutionary economics and the
environment
............... 50
2.8.2.
Coevolution of economic practices, social
systems and environmental conditions
. 51
2.8.3.
Limits to economic growth
....... 51
Contents xi
2.9.
Concluding Comments
.............. 53
2.10.
Keywords
..................... 54
2.11.
Questions for Review and Discussion
....... 54
Readings and References
.................. 57
3.
Economic Failure in Using Natural Resources
and the Environment
63
3.1.
Introduction
.................... 63
3.2.
Identifying Economic Failures and Measuring
Economic Loss
.................. 65
3.2.1.
Pareto optimality
............. 65
3.2.2.
Taking account of future economic
scarcity
.................. 66
3.2.3.
Pareto s criterion and the criterion
of a potential
Paretian
improvement
. . 69
3.3.
Markets and Economic Failure
.......... 70
3.3.1.
Economic failure generally
........ 70
3.3.2.
Externalities, particularly environmental
spillovers
................. 71
3.3.3.
Uncertainty and market failure
..... 77
3.3.4.
Public goods, mixed goods and
quasi-public goods
............ 79
3.3.5.
Open-access commodities and those for
which there is excludability but no rivalry
85
3.3.6.
Monopolies
................ 86
3.4.
Political and Administrative Mechanisms
and Economic Failures
.............. 86
3.4.1.
Failure of majority voting to bring
about
a Paretian
optimum
........ 87
3.4.2.
Special interest pressure groups
..... 88
3.4.3.
Prevalence of myopic and reactive rather
than pro-active behavior by governments
90
3.4.4.
Failures in public administration
..... 91
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3.5.
Conclusions
.................... 92
3.6.
Keywords
..................... 94
3.7.
Questions for Review and Discussion
....... 94
Readings and References
.................. 97
4.
Property Rights, Laws, Markets and Resource Use
99
4.1.
Introduction: General Views about
Property Rights, Justice and Economic
Efficiency
...................... 99
4.2.
Private Property Rights and Other Forms
of Property Rights
................. 103
4.3.
Private Property Rights and the Efficient Operation
of Market Systems
................. 106
4.4.
The Economics of Creating Private Property
. . 108
4.5.
Common Property
................ 110
4.6.
Open-Access Resources
.............. 112
4.6.1.
The nature of open-access resources
. . 112
4.6.2.
Inefficiency of open-access resource
use
—
resource misallocation
...... 113
4.6.3.
Failure to achieve adequate conservation
of natural resources when there is
open-access
................ 116
4.6.4.
Perverse responses to market signals and
biodiversity loss as a result of open-access
116
4.6.5.
Another perspective on the over
exploitation of natural resources when
open-access occurs
............ 118
4.6.6.
Limitations in applying this model
in less developed countries
........ 123
4.6.7.
Other economic failures associated
with open-access resources
........ 125
4.7.
The Taking of Property Rights and Natural
Resource Interests
................. 126
4.8.
Concluding Comments
.............. 128
Contents xiii
4.9.
Keywords
..................... 128
4.10.
Questions for Review and Discussion
....... 129
Readings and References
.................. 131
5.
Regulating Natural Resource Use and
Pollution Emissions
135
5.1.
Introduction
.................... 135
5.2.
Taxes or Charges on Pollution Emissions
and on Waste Disposal
............... 136
5.2.1.
A simple model
.............. 136
5.2.2.
Limitations of the simple model and
their policy consequences
........ 138
5.2.2.1.
Lack of attention to dynamics
and user costs
.......... 139
5.2.2.2.
External environmental impacts
modeled as a global or localized
pure public bad
......... 140
5.2.2.3.
Income distribution
consequences of environmental
regulation are not assessed
... 141
5.2.2.4.
Uncertainty about the costs
and benefits of environmental
regulation and about
how external economic effects
should be evaluated
...... 143
5.2.2.5.
Government regulators may not
always try to adopt efficient
economic pricing of pollution
emissions via taxes or charges and
therefore, transaction costs of
regulation could be high
.... 145
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5.2.2.6.
A system of taxes or charges
on adverse environmental
externalities encourages research
and innovations designed
to reduce negative environmental
spillovers
............ 146
5.2.2.7.
Government taxes or charges
on pollution emissions may be
inflexible
............ 146
5.3.
Tradable Permit Systems for Pollution
Emissions and Waste Disposal
........... 147
5.4.
Subsidies for Pollution Reduction
........ 152
5.5.
The Policy of Clearly Defining Property
Rights Combined with Bargaining or the Legal
Settlement of an Environmental Dispute
..... 152
5.6.
Administrative Rules or Fiat as an Environmental
Control Measure
................. 153
5.7.
Zoning of Polluting Activities Having External
Environmental Consequences
........... 154
5.7.1.
Introduction
............... 154
5.7.2.
Zoning of incompatible activities
.... 154
5.7.3.
Cases where external pollution damage
depends only on the distance between
emitters and potential receptors
..... 157
5.7.4.
Should polluting activities be concentrated
by location or dispersed?
......... 158
5.7.5.
Geographical influences
......... 159
5.8.
The Economic Incidence of Environmental
Regulations
.................... 159
5.8.1.
Introduction
............... 159
5.8.2.
Implications of the Pigovian approach
to environmental policy
......... 160
5.8.3.
The incidence of non-Pigovian policies for
environmental regulation
........ 163
5.9.
Regulating the Use of Open-Access Resources
. . 166
5.9.1.
Introduction
............... 166
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5.9.2.
Taxes and charges as a means to govern
the use of shared natural resources
... 167
5.9.3.
The use of tradable permits
....... 170
5.9.4.
Subsidies to
refrain
from
resource use
............... 171
5.9.5.
The creation of private property
rights
................... 172
5.9.6.
Administrative or communal rules
. . . . 172
5.9.7.
Zoning and shared natural
resources
................. 173
5.10.
Regulating the Use of Shared Natural Resources
that Supply Mixed Goods
............. 174
5.11.
Concluding Comments
.............. 175
5.12.
Keywords
..................... 176
5.13.
Questions for Review and Discussion
....... 176
Readings and References
.................. 180
6.
Economic Valuation of Environmental Spillovers
and Natural Resources
183
6.1.
Introduction
.................... 183
6.2.
The Basic Ideas Behind Social Cost-Benefit
Analysis
...................... 184
6.2.1.
A simple illustration
........... 184
6.2.2.
Some complications
........... 186
6.3.
Normative and Philosophical Matters as well
as a Measurement Issue
.............. 187
6.3.1.
Ethical and normative assumptions
underlying economic valuation
..... 187
6.3.2.
A measurement issue
........... 189
6.4.
Steps in Applying Social Cost-Benefit Analysis to
the Valuation of Environmental Spillovers
and to the Valuation of Natural Resources
.... 190
6.4.1.
Identifying and measuring impacts
. . . 190
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6.4.2.
Identifying the economic nature
of the components of environmental
spillovers and of natural resources
.... 191
6.4.3.
Confidence in estimates of economic value
and sensitivity of returns
......... 193
6.5.
Allowing for the Time Dimension in the Process of
Valuation
...................... 194
6.6.
Cases in which Market-Based Valuation
of Environmental Spillovers and Natural
Resource Use is Possible
............. 195
6.6.1.
Simple market-based valuations
..... 196
6.6.2.
A more complicated case involving a
change in the market price of a product
adversely affected by an environmental
externality
................ 198
6.6.3.
Valuing marketed natural resources
that do not generate significant
environmental spillovers
......... 201
6.7.
Introduction to Methods of Valuing
Nonmarketed Commodities
........... 203
6.8.
The Travel Cost Method of Economic Valuation
205
6.8.1.
Background about this method
..... 205
6.8.2.
Procedures for applying the travel cost
method of valuation
........... 206
6.8.3.
Some limitations of the travel cost
method
.................. 209
6.9.
Hedonic Pricing as a Valuation Method
..... 210
6.10.
Contingent Valuation
—
A Stated Preference
Approach
...................... 212
6.10.1.
The basics of contingent valuation
... 212
6.10.2.
Variations in procedures for estimating
contingent values
—
single bids,
multiple bids, bounded bids
....... 213
6.10.3.
Issues raised by procedures used to
estimate contingent values
........ 215
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6.11.
Choice Modeling
—
Stated Preferences Based on
Attributes or Characteristics
of Commodities
.................. 218
6.12.
Other Evaluation and Valuation Methods
.... 221
6.12.1.
Multi-
attribute choice models
...... 221
6.12.2.
Citizens juries
.............. 222
6.12.3.
Cost-effectiveness analysis
........ 223
6.12.4.
Cost of replacement of a natural resource
as an evaluation technique
........ 223
6.13.
Concluding Comments
.............. 224
6.14.
Keywords
..................... 225
6.15.
Questions for Review and Discussion
....... 225
Readings and References
.................. 227
7.
Sustainability as an Environmental and Economic Issue
231
7.1.
Introduction
.................... 231
7.2.
Why has Environmental and Economic
Sustainability Become an Important Issue?
.... 233
7.2.1.
Human dependence on natural resources
233
7.2.2.
Historical impacts of humans on natural
environments and resources as a reason for
concern
.................. 234
7.2.3.
Interdependence between economic
systems and natural resource
systems
.................. 235
7.2.4.
Environmental Kuznets curves
..... 238
7.2.5.
Export of polluting economic
activities
................. 240
7.3.
Types of Material Resources, Particularly Natural
Resources, and Their Implications for Economic
Sustainability
.................... 242
7.3.1.
A classification of material resources
. . . 242
7.3.2.
Biological resources and economic
sustainability
............... 243
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7.3.3.
Replenishable nonbiological natural
resources and those not subject to
significant depletion
........... 245
7.3.4.
Nonrenewable nonbiological resources
which are depletable, for example,
minerals
.................. 246
7.3.5.
Physical man-made capital and human
capital
................... 250
7.4.
Microeconomic Phenomena Resulting in a Lack of
Economic Sustainability
.............. 251
7.5.
Sustainable Development
............. 253
7.6.
Concluding Comments
.............. 256
7.7.
Keywords
..................... 258
7.8.
Questions for Review and Discussion
....... 258
Readings and References
.................. 260
II MORE SPECIFIC TOPICS
263
8.
Agriculture, Agricultural Policies and the
Environment
265
8.1.
Introduction
.................... 265
8.2.
General Impacts of Agricultural Development on
the Environment and on the Availability of Natural
Resources
..................... 266
8.2.1.
Broad environmental concerns
..... 266
8.2.2.
Demand for agricultural production
expected to increase substantially
.... 269
8.3.
Market Failures Involving Agriculture
and Their Implications for the Environment and
Resource Use
................... 269
8.3.1.
Background
............... 269
8.3.2.
Environmental spillovers and agriculture
270
8.3.3.
Use by agriculturalists of open-access
natural resources
............. 273
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8.3.4.
Consequences of agricultural development
for the supply of commodities with public
goods attributes
............. 274
8.4.
Factors Leading to a Lack of Agricultural
Sustainability
.................... 276
8.4.1.
Market factors as a source of lack of
agricultural sustainability
......... 276
8.4.2.
Lack of agricultural sustainability due to
factors other than market
failures
.................. 276
8.5.
Impacts of Agricultural Policies on the
Environment and Natural-Resource Use
..... 278
8.5.1.
Adverse environmental externalities
from agriculture and government subsidies
for agricultural production
........ 278
8.5.2.
Favorable environmental spillovers from
agriculture and public policy
....... 281
8.5.3.
Agricultural policy and the conservation
of natural resources
........... 283
8.6.
Concluding Comments
.............. 283
8.7.
Keywords
..................... 284
8.8.
Questions for Review and Discussion
....... 285
Readings and References
.................. 286
9.
Water Management
289
9.1.
Introduction
.................... 289
9.2.
Scarcity and the Demand for the Available Quantity
ofFreshwater
................... 290
9.3.
Economic Failures in Allocating Scarce
Water Resources
.................. 293
9.3.1.
Background
............... 293
9.3.2.
The most economic allocation of water in
any time period
.............. 294
9.3.3.
The
intertemporal
allocation of water
. . 296
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9.4.
Mechanisms for the Management of the Available
Quantity of Water
................. 298
9.4.1.
Background
............... 298
9.4.2.
Administrative control of the quantity of
water used by different entities or for
different purposes
............ 299
9.4.3.
Administered prices for water-use
.... 299
9.4.4.
Tradable permit systems
for water-use
............... 303
9.5.
Transboundary Use of Water
........... 305
9.6.
Water for Nature Conservation and for
Nonmarketed Uses
................ 308
9.7.
Water Pollution and Water Quality
........ 309
9.7.1.
General aspects
.............. 309
9.7.2.
Controlling water pollution and
managing water quality
......... 310
9.8.
The Economics of Investments to Supplement
Available Water Supplies
.............. 313
9.8.1.
General Aspects
............. 313
9.8.2.
Water recycling and desalinization
. ... 313
9.8.3.
Diversion of water and the pooling of
water resources
.............. 315
9.8.4.
The provision of dams and weirs
.... 316
9.9.
Concluding Comments
.............. 317
9.10.
Keywords
..................... 318
9.11.
Questions for Review and Discussion
....... 319
Readings and References
.................. 321
10.
Biodiversity Conservation
323
10.1.
An Introduction to the Relationship between
Biodiversity and Economics
............ 323
10.2.
The Concept of Biodiversity and the
Measurement of Biodiversity
........... 325
10.3.
Why Does Biodiversity have Economic Value?
. . 326
10.4.
Factors Causing Changes in Biodiversity
..... 331
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10.4.1. General
aspects
.............. 331
10.4.2. Nonanthropogenic
causes
of alterations in
biodiversity
................ 332
10.4.3.
Anthropogenic (mainly economic)
impacts on the biological diversity of wild
organisms
................. 333
10.4.4.
Anthropogenic impacts on the
biodiversity of cultured organisms
.... 333
10.5.
Policies to Promote Biodiversity
Conservation
.................... 337
10.5.1.
An overview
............... 337
10.5.2.
Restriction of market operations as a
conservation measure
.......... 338
10.5.3.
Encouraging market operations in order
to conserve species
............ 340
10.5.4.
Measures designed to make biodiversity
conservation independent of market
forces
................... 342
10.5.5.
An overall perspective
.......... 344
10.6.
Human Development of the Genetic Stock
Including Genetically Engineered Organisms
. . 344
10.6.1.
General features
............. 344
10.6.2.
Property rights in genetic material
and in methods of engineering
genetic material
............. 348
10.7.
Concluding Observations
............. 351
10.8.
Keywords
..................... 354
10.9.
Questions for Review and Discussion
....... 354
Readings and References
.................. 356
11.
Global Warming, Energy Use and Air Pollution
359
11.1.
Introduction
.................... 359
11.2.
Sources of Energy Supply and Issues Involved in
Managing this Supply
............... 361
11.2.1.
The basics
................ 361
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11.2.2.
The composition of energy supplies
used by humans in electricity and heat
production and consumption
...... 362
11.2.3.
Some of the issues involved in managing
energy supplies
.............. 364
11.3.
Global Reduction in Air Quality
—
Ozone Layer
Depletion and Global Warming
.......... 368
11.3.1.
General observations
........... 368
11.3.2.
Do global reductions in air quality due
to human activity provide incentives for
collective regulatory action?
....... 368
11.3.3.
Ozone layer depletion
.......... 372
11.3.4.
Global warming
—
its basic causes and its
predicted consequences
......... 373
11.4.
The Economic Impacts of Global Warming and
Policies to Address It
............... 376
11.4.1.
Estimating the economic costs of
global warming and the net benefits of
controlling it
............... 376
11.4.2.
International agreements and global
warming
................. 382
11.5.
Economic Methods of Regulating Greenhouse Gas
Emissions and Global Warming
.......... 384
11.5.1.
Mitigation versus adjustment and other
general issues
............... 384
11.5.2.
Taxes on greenhouse gas emissions
. . . 386
11.5.3.
Tradable permits for greenhouse gas
emissions
................. 387
11.5.4.
Who pays for reductions in emissions
of greenhouse gases?
........... 389
11.6.
Local and Regional Air Pollution, Including
Regional Transboundary Pollution
........ 390
11.6.1.
Background
............... 390
11.6.2.
Local air pollution
............ 391
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11.6.3. Regional
air pollution
including
transboundary or transfrontier air
pollution
................. 392
11.7.
Concluding Comments
.............. 396
11.8.
Keywords
..................... 398
11.9.
Questions for Review and Discussion
....... 398
Readings and References
.................. 401
12.
Recycling and Solid Waste Management
405
12.1.
Introduction
.................... 405
12.2.
Why should Wastes and Economic Products be
Recycled? What Factors Influence the Extent of
Recycling?
..................... 406
12.2.1.
Reasons for recycling
........... 406
12.2.2.
A simple model of the private economics
ofrecycling
................ 407
12.3.
Adjusting the Simplified Recycling Model
to Allow for Market Failures
........... 409
12.4.
Some Additional Factors That Ought
to Be Taken into Account in Modeling
the Economics of Recycling
............ 411
12.4.1.
Introductory observations
........ 411
12.4.2.
Markets for recyclable wastes
...... 411
12.4.3.
Decisions of individuals about supplying
wastes for recycling
............ 414
12.4.4.
Some additional factors that influence the
extent ofrecycling
............ 416
12.5.
The Management of the Disposal of Garbage
(Trash) by Local Governments
.......... 416
12.5.1.
Marginal cost pricing of garbage disposal
416
12.5.2.
Limitations of the above model
..... 418
12.5.3.
Institutional measures to increase the
economic efficiency of garbage disposal,
for example, contracting out
....... 419
12.6.
Substitutes for Recycling and Waste
Creation
...................... 421
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12.7.
Policy Perspectives
................. 423
12.7.1.
Some relevant observations
....... 423
12.7.2.
Why might consumers have limited
control over the type and amount of
wastes generated by their
purchases?
................ 424
12.7.3.
To what extent should the producers
of products be made responsible for
the wastes generated by their products
rather than consumers or other buyers
of these products?
............ 427
12.8.
Concluding Comments
.............. 428
12.9.
Keywords
..................... 429
12.10.
Questions for Review and Discussion
....... 430
Readings and References
.................. 431
13.
Health and Environmental Economics
433
13.1.
Introduction
.................... 433
13.2.
Basic Considerations in the Economic Assessment
of Environmental Health Policies
......... 434
13.2.1.
The necessity of economic trade-offs
. . 434
13.2.2.
Factors that can be controlled to influence
environmental health and their economic
implications
................ 436
13.3.
Economic Failures and Environmental Health
. . 437
13.3.1.
Environmental spillovers or externalities
437
13.3.2.
Public goods or bads and environmental
health
................... 439
13.3.3.
Ignorance, behavioral variations and
public health concerns
.......... 439
13.4.
Production Functions, the Cost Effectiveness
of Environmental Health Interventions and
Maximization of Net Benefits
........... 440
13.4.1.
Single output-single variable input
production functions
........... 440
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13.4.2. Isoquants —
production
functions
involving multiple inputs
........ 443
13.4.3.
Isocosts
.................. 445
13.4.4.
Cost effectiveness
............ 446
13.4.5.
Expansion paths, total costs and health
benefits
.................. 447
13.5.
Assignment of Monetary Benefits to the
Valuation of the Avoidance of Ill-Health
..... 450
13.5.1.
Monetary values facilitate social
cost-benefit analysis
........... 450
13.5.2.
The economic value of expected longevity
451
13.5.3.
The economic value of avoiding
morbidity
................. 454
13.5.4.
Quality-adjusted-life years (QALYs)
... 455
13.5.5.
Further evaluation considerations
.... 456
13.6.
Chemical and Physical Substances in the
Environment and the Economic Consequences of
Their Health Impacts
—
Empirical Applications
............... 457
13.6.1.
The purpose of this section
....... 457
13.6.2.
Air quality in Los Angeles
........ 457
13.6.3.
The economic costs of air pollution in the
USA
................... 459
13.6.4.
Pollution of water and air by the release of
cadmium from a smelter in China
.... 460
13.6.5.
Water pollution in South Asia by arsenic
460
13.6.6.
Additional observations on water quality
and health
................ 461
13.7.
Economic Considerations and Ecological
and Biological Influences on Environmental
Health
....................... 462
13.7.1.
Background
............... 462
13.7.2.
Economic assessment of vaccination
programs
—
existing analysis
...... 463
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and Environmental Economics: Modern Issues and Applications
13.7.3.
A different possibility to that outlined
above
—
a case in which eradication is an
economic option
............. 465
13.7.4.
Adverse health externalities
—
excessive
use of antibiotics and measures to reduce
contagion of diseases
........... 467
13.8.
Concluding Observations
............. 468
13.9.
Keywords
..................... 469
13.10.
Questions for Review and Discussion
....... 470
Readings and References
.................. 472
Index
............................ 475
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