This paper addresses the relationship between property regimes and land degradation outcomes, in the context of peasant agriculture. We consider explicitly whether private property provides for superior soil resource conservation, as compared to common property and open access. To assess this we implement optimization algorithms on a supercomputer to address resource decision-making of individu...

The Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance and Technology (OTA) is offering the Right from the Start program to provide Massachusetts businesses with the technical and regulatory support needed to maximize environmental and economic performance. It is especially designed to encourage businesses seeking permits for expansion or start up of new manufacturing operations to consider pollution...

Recovery of copper and chelating agents from sludge extracting solutions Fang-Chih Chang a, Shang-Lien Lo a,∗, Chun-Han Ko b a Research Center for Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control Technology, Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University, 71 Chou-Shan Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan, ROC b School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan Univers...

Drug shortages are not new; they have been managed through conservation, procurement of alternatives, and redistribution of stock The Sandoz shortage in 2012 has caused a radical reduction of generic injectables. In Newfoundland and Labrador, our response has led to the development of the framework, structure, and process outlined in this paper. The efforts have eased the concerns of clinicians...

This paper analyzes conservation and extinction of renewable resources when the production function is nonconcave and the return function depends on consumption and the resource stock. The paper focuses on the efficiency of global conservation, a safe standard of conservation, and extinction. Which outcome obtains depends on the marginal rate of substitution between investment and the stock in ...

This article analyzes the role of prescriptive regulation and citizen-suit litigation (regulatory enforcement) in natural resource conservation in the USA. It first briefly explains why the judiciary is so involved in resource management and why litigation is so often used as a conservation tool. It then summarizes the extent to which regulatory enforcement is being threatened and/or undermined...