Standard models of management of a single-species fishery generally assume that the biomass is of known size and that it is generated by a well-specified deterministicgrowth law. In reality the biomass is of uncertain size and usually subject to random growth. Several authors have addressed the...

Trees cast shade on homes and buildings, lowering the inside temperatures and thus reducingdemand for power to cool these buildings during hot times of the year. Drawing from a largesample of residences in Auburn, Alabama, we develop a statistical model that produces specificestimates of the...

Over the past several decades, market-based approaches to natural resource management have received increased attention as a means to cost-effectively achieve environmental quality goals. Following on what has been hailed a success for reducing air pollution, water quality trading (WQT) has more...

The overall aim of this study is to empirically investigate the cost structure of a management agreement typeagri-environmental instrument and to identify factors for cost variation over space and time. We control for theactual level of compliance by using compliance weighted average scheme cost...

Most terrestrial biological invasions occur in landscapes comprising numerous, independently managed properties. Thus, control of invasion spread generally depends on the choices of many managers, each deciding the extent to control invasions on their property. Here we develop a...

Contributed Paper prepared for presentation at the International Association of AgriculturalEconomists’ 2009 Conference, Beijing, China, August 16-22, 2009.

This study describes the development of bio economic models examining the economic and water quality impact of various proposed policy options in the Upper Waikato catchment. In the first phase nitrogen emissions are determined for representative farming systems using the Overseer nutrient...

Increasingly, environmental problems are recognized to involve linkages across multiple environmental variables (e.g., pollution and a fishery). Prior work on managing these complex, linked systems generally focuses on efficiency rather than implementation. However, implementation is important...

This study was intended to develop an understanding of producer preference for land-based carbon sequestration in agriculture. We conducted a mail survey to elicit producer choice to provide marketable carbon offsets by participating in different carbon credit programs characterized by varying...

Guided by the frame work of a household model under credit market failure, this paper aims at investigating the impact of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used in the study is from Malawi collected by the...