One of the major shortcommings of past environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) studies is that the spatiotemporal aspects within the data have largely been ignored. By ignoring the spatial aspect of pollution emissions past estimates of the EKC implicitly assume that a region’s emissions are...

Using estimation of demand for the George Washington/Jefferson NationalForest as a case study, it is shown that in a stratified/clustered on-sitesample, latent heterogeneity needs to be accounted for twice: first to accountfor dispersion in the data caused by unobservability of the process that...

Water quality trading (trading) as a means to improve water quality has become an increasingly popular instrument considered by environmental policy makers. Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lists more than forty current trading programs in the U.S., only a few active markets...