Income is simultaneously one of the most important variables used by economists and the variable most likely to be missing due to item non-response. While observations that are missing income responses are often dropped from analyses, such treatment is usually inappropriate. More appropriate...

The National Park Service and other agencies have argued that our recreation lands face a crisis of deferred maintenance. This paper evaluates two proposals for funding public lands, increasing gate fees and taxing recreational gear. It analyzes the joint welfare effects of such taxes and the...

1 Measuring Water Quality Benefits: An Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Regulation: An Overview -- 1.3 Objectives -- 1.4 Preview -- 1.5 References -- 2 The Conceptual Basis of Benefits Estimation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 A Brief Review of the Conventional Theory of Benefits Measurement --...

Handbook in Environmental Economics, Volume 4, the latest in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting timely chapters on Modeling Ecosystems and Economic Systems, Framing Sustainability Policy Questions: Who Leads – Ecology or Economics?,...

ch. 1. Conceptual considerations in allocation of wildlands and wilderness resources -- ch. 2. An outline of the wilderness traffic simulator -- ch. 3. Coding the Spanish Peaks wilderness area : preparation of input information -- ch. 4. The Spanish Peaks base case -- ch. 5. Sensitivity...