Week 3 (List) update

Well, it was answered today and I realized just how out of my depth I am in this whole list... sheesh. But maybe I feel out of my depth because there are not yet enough conversational posts circulating... Maybe this will spark an actual conversation?

It's good to know that good work is being done in the area of defining environmental thresholds (and these people are on this list! wow!!) and (need to read her paper - link doesn't work - sent her an e-mail and will write more when I get a response.)

Email:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Albers, Heidi
Date: Feb 27, 2006 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: Economies of scale in preservation
To: RESECON@lsv.uky.edu

Hi Chris. You might want to look at the Wu and Boggess article in JEEM
38(3):302-21 because it talks about how much it matters to have an
environmental benefits function that has increasing marginal benefits in
a range - or thresholds. Junjie Wu also has a whole slew of papers that
use a thresholds argument in studies of riparian management (for
starters: Ecological Economics 42(2002)313-331 and AJAE
82(2000)400-413).

Boscolo and Vincent have an article in JEEM 46(2003)251-268 that also
looks at nonconvexities in the environmental/resource production
functions.

Amy Ando and I have a project on conservation by private and public
actors and talk about the role of this shaped curve in those papers.
I'm not sure how much of it is in our paper in Land Economics
79(3):311-327 but we are finishing up both a modeling and an empirical
paper that have that stuff in them. The precursor to the papers we are
finishing over the next few weeks is available online: "Spatial Analysis
of Private Land Conservation Decisions." Heidi J. Albers and Amy Ando.
December, 2004. Proceedings of EPA conference "Valuation of Ecological
Benefits: Improving the Science behind Policy Decisions. Session V.
Conservation and Urban Growth: Finding the Balance." pp 47-80.

Heidi's Paper

If you download that paper and
it is intersting, send me an email and I will send you the drafts of
both the modeling and empirical paper that use this type of benefits
function when we polish them a bit.

Enjoy!

hja