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groundwater markets conducted by myself in Tamil Nadu, India during January and February 2001. The aim of this chapter is to give … developing countries with a special emphasis on India.In the first part, I present data from a field study on informal … an exact description of the process of contracting and of the details of the groundwater contracts in order to make some …
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of farmers with the help of the line Departments focusing on groundwater recharge. The economic impact on productivity … situation. The net return per acre, net return per acre inch of groundwater and net return per rupee of irrigation water were … from the program. Accordingly from open wells net return per acre, net return per acre inch of groundwater and net return …
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groundwater markets conducted by myself in Tamil Nadu, India during January and February 2001. The aim of this chapter is to give … developing countries with a special emphasis on India.In the first part, I present data from a field study on informal … an exact description of the process of contracting and of the details of the groundwater contracts in order to make some …
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The effectiveness of SO{sub 2} emission allowance trading under Title 4 of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act (CAA) is of great interest due to the innovative nature of this market incentive approach. However, it may be a mistake to frame the compliance problem for a utility as a decision...
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This paper deals with the market for SO{sub 2} emission allowances over time and electric utility compliance choices. For currently high emitting plants ( 2.5 lb SO{sub 2}/MMBtu), the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) provide for about twice as many SO{sub 2} allowances to be issued per year...
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-making regarding deactivation and decommissioning (D and D), pollution prevention (P2), and asset recovery, and its deployment to …
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This report provides background information for the Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) in its efforts to quantify the environmental externalities associated with new electricity resources. A more detailed companion document has been provided to Bonneville for internal use. This report...
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Concentrations of environmental pollutants tend to follow positively skewed frequency distributions. Two such density functions are the gamma and lognormal. Minimum variance unbiased estimators of the expected value for both densities are available. The small sample statistical properties of...
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This paper focuses on how electric utility companies can respond in their decision making to uncertain variables. Here we take a mean- variance type of approach. The mean'' value is an expected cost, on a discounted value basis. We assume that management has risk preferences incorporating a...
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Claims of property value loss are commonly raised by homeowners when noxious facilities are sited or when new information about the hazards of existing facilities is made public. While the capitalization of externalities into land values is consistent with economic theory, empirical measurement...
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