Increased public awareness of resource management issues and new attitudes toward resource conservation have led to great interest in the subject of the apposite use and management of natural and environmental resources in the American West. This paper analyzes this subject from an interdisciplinary ecological-economic perspective. Four salient issues concerning the study of the West’s ecologic...

Based on SERVAUALmodel, this paper brings in the entropy method to rank quality improvement (QI) priority for service attributes, and a service quality evaluation(SQE) model integrating competitive analyses has been structured to evaluate the mobile communication service quality (SQ) for Wuhan Branch of China Telecom(WBCT). The research shows that the QI priority of 22 service attributes has ch...

This paper develops a framework to analyze the impacts on resource development of e cient management practices that account for possible resource conserving technological, institutional and taste changes. Compared with traditional resource management that ignores these future possibilities, e cient management may not delay or reduce resource development. Under e cient management, higher probabi...

In this paper we present an endogenous growth model with productive public capital and pollution. As to pollution we assume that it is a by-product of aggregate production and that it negatively affects utility of the household but not production possibilities directly. The paper studies the dynamics of the model and demonstrates that there exists either a unique balanced growth path which is a...

In recent years, extensive literature on the Environmental Kuznets Curve leading to optimistic policy conclusions has attracted great attention. However, the underlying cross-section estimations are not very reliable. Accordingly, this contribution uses time series data for a single country with good data quality: Germany. With a specification that includes all theoretical variations and differ...

Using a model calibrated to Khao Yai National Park in Thailand, this paper highlights the importance of generating explicitly spatial and temporal data for developing management plans for tropical protected forests. Spatial and temporal cost-benefit analysis should account for the interactions between different land uses – such as the benefits of contiguous areas of preserved land and edge effe...

We analyze the effect of collective action by green/environmentally aware consumers on ambient environmental quality and market equilibrium. We consider a model with two types of consumers who differ in their willingness-to-pay for a good available in two different environmental qualities, and two competing firms: one selling the good of high environmental quality and the other of low environme...

In the current age of trade and financial openness, local economies in developing countries are becoming increasingly exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide an insight into the interaction between external investors and local communities with a focus upon the different strategies and income sources available...

To date, the valuation of environmental quality has been severely hampered by our ability to actually measure quality. Often environmental resources are described by exhaustive lists of attributes. Unfortunately, high multicollinearity among attributes leads to serious econometric problems. The use of too few attributes, on the other hand, leads to underspecification of the valuation model. Fin...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of weight-based pricing in the collection of household waste. Using a comprehensive panel data set on all households in a Dutch municipality we estimate short-run as well as long-run price effects for the amounts of both compostable and non-recyclable household waste. We find significant and sizeable price effects, with the elasticity for...