People are part of a complex natural system and have the ability to actively interfere with their environment. Collective decisions made by governments represent social rules that limit the extent of people's interference with the environment that support them. Environmental decisions made by...

The success of any groundwater management plan depends on user compliance. There is an intimate relationship between regulatory regimes and pumper perceptions. As well as its enforcement powers, an agency's behavior sends information to users. While enforcement power need not always be used to...

NAREA Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, NAREA Master's Thesis Award of Merit, NAREA Distinguished Member Awards, NAREA Award for Outstanding Public Service Through Economics, and NAREA's Journal Article of the Year for 2008

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Environmental tariffs appear to be a politically necessary part of the climate change policies that are emerging in many countries. The appeal of level playing field arguments is seductive and difficult to dispute. Environmental policy makers, however, may be naïve, because they fail to account...

Ex-ante Bewertungsverfahren von Agrar- und Umweltpolitiken und Politiken für den ländlichen Raum sind integrative Bestandteile des politischen Entscheidungsprozesses in der Europäischen Union. Während es bereits eine Mehrzahl von quantitativen Agrar- Umwelt-Modellen gibt, die sowohl soziale,...

Für den politisch gewünschten Ausbau der Nutzung regenerativer Energien wird eine Steigerung der Biogasproduktion insbesondere auf Basis landwirtschaftlicher Reststoffe wie Wirtschaftsdünger als vorteilhaft angesehen. Obwohl dieser Reststoff produktionskostenfrei zur Verfügung steht, erfolgt...