Parallel Session 15 Thursday, June 27th 2002 - 10:15 - 11:45 am


Session 15A: Spatial Modelling
(Chair: Matthew Kahn)

Presenter: Konstantinos T Alexandridis Multi Agent-Based Environmental Landscape (Mabel) – An Artificial Intelligence Simulation Model: Some Early Assessments

Presenter: Austin Troy The Role Of Disclosure In The Flood Zone: Assessing The Price Effects Of The California Natural Hazard Disclosure Law (AB 1195)

Presenter: Matthew A Turner Describing Urban Sprawl: Evidence From Remote Sensing Imagery

Presenter: Kurt Bisang Direct Democracy And Institutional Change Of Landscape Regimes. Empirical Evidence Of Changes From The 1970s To The 21st Century In Switzerland

Presenter: Colin Vance Duration Modeling Of Land-Use Change In North Carolina: An Assessment Of Species Vulnerability To Habitat Loss


Session 15B: Sustainable Development 3
(Chair: Dirgha Tiwari)

Presenter: Tisha L N Emerson Income, Environmental Disamenity, And Toxic Releases

Presenter: Daan Van Soest A Shadow Price Approach To Measuring The Costs Of Increased Environmental Stringency

Presenter: Donna Theresa Ramirez Conservation Capital And Sustainable Economic Growth

Presenter: Yacov Tsur Growth, Scarcity And R&D

Presenter: Kathleen P Bell How Smart Are Smart Growth Policies?

Presenter: Zbigniew Bochniarz Evaluating Sustainability Of Economies In Transition: A Comparative Study

Presenter: Marjan Hofkes Is Economic Growth Sustainable? A Trend Analysis For The Netherlands, 1990-1995


Session 15C: Pollution Control And Incentive Effects
(Chair: Theodore Groves)

Presenter: Eftichios Sartzetakis Stable International Environmental Agreements: An Analytical Approach

Presenter: Santiago J Rubio On The Coincidence Of The Feedback Nash Equilibrium And The Feedback Stackelberg Equilibrium In Differential Games Economic Applications

Presenter: Greg Hunter Endogenous Learning And The Option To Invest

Presenter: Maria Khovanskaia Incentive Contracts For Abatement Projects With Costly Self-Audit By The Agent

Presenter: Minh Ha-Duong Climate Strategy With Co2 Capture From The Air

Presenter: Kim Hang Pham Do Strategies For International Environmental Cooperation

Presenter: Maria Damon Conceptual Issues in Transitioning from Copper Hull Coatings on Recreational Boats to Non-Toxic Alternatives


Session 15D: Fisheries 2
(Chair: Jim Sanchirico)

Presenter: R Jayaraman Policy Options For Shark Resource Management In The Indian EEZ

Presenter: Peder Andersen Efficiency Of Cost-Recovery Mechanisms: The Fishery

Presenter: Guillermo E Herrera Implications Of Asymmetric Information And Uncertainty For The Economics Of Bycatch And Discarding

Presenter: Anil Markandya An Economic Analysis Of The Problem Of Sturgeon Depletion In The Caspian Sea

Presenter: Niels Vestergaard Industry Capacity For A Common Pool Resource: The Danish Fishery

Presenter: Lisa Chapman Managing With Imperfect Access Rights

Presenter: Christopher Costello Non-Compliance In ITQ Fisheries


Session 15E: Environmental Valuation 9
(Chair: David Layton)

Presenter: Pei-Ing Wu Design Of An Efficient And Complete Elicitation Decision Process In Contingent Valuation Method: Benefit Evaluation Of Kengting National Park In Taiwan

Presenter: Dominika Dziegielewska Does “No” Mean “No”?Protest Responses And Contingent Valuation

Presenter: Gregory L Poe A Simple Computational Method For Measuring The Difference Of Empirical Distributions: Application To External Scope Tests In Contingent Valuation

Presenter: Megan Werner The Effects Of Extreme Design Points On Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Estimates

Presenter: Peter Martinsson Can Heaping Effects In Open-Ended Data Explain The Difference Between Estimated WTP In Open-Ended And Closed-Ended Contingent Valuation Surveys? An Application To Solid Waste Management In Sri Lanka

Presenter: Julie Hewitt Bias And Efficiency In The Iterative Paired Approach To Nonmarket Valuation

Presenter: J R Deshazo Designing Choice Sets For Stated Preference Methods: The Effects Of Complexity On Choice Consistency

Presenter: Thomas P Holmes Dynamic Anchoring And Distributed Lag Responses In A Binary Choice Experiment


Session 15F: Pollution Markets
(Chair: John Livernois)

Presenter: Gilles Rotillon Capital Allocation And International Equilibrium With Pollution Permits

Presenter: Harald Tauchmann Co2 Abatement And Fuel Mix In German Electric Power Generation: What Are The Carbon Reduction Options Abandoned By The Ecological Tax Reform?

Presenter: Norimichi Matsueda Environmental Transfers Against Global Warming: A Credit-Based Program

Presenter: Matti Liski Carbon Reduction Market

Presenter: Matti Liski Can Carbon Tax Eat OPEC's Rents?

Presenter: Snorre Kverndokk Can Carbon Taxation Reduce Spanish Unemployment?

Presenter: Spencer Banzhaf Efficient Emission Fees In The U.S. Electricity Sector


Session 15H: Environmental Valuation 10
(Chair: Nicholas Hanley)

Presenter: Mark Morrison Does Revealing The Goal Of A Stated Preference Study Lead To Strategic Behavior?

Presenter: Elisabetta Strazzera The Effect Of Protest Votes On The Estimates Of WTP For Use Values Of Recreational Sites

Presenter: Juergen Meyerhoff The Influence Of General And Specific Attitudes On Stated Willingness To Pay: A Composite Attitude-Behaviour Model

Presenter: James J Murphy Controlling For Hypothetical Bias In Contingent Valuation Studies

Presenter: Thomas C Brown Further Tests Of Entreaties To Avoid Hypothetical Bias In Referendum Contingent Valuation

Presenter: Steven Stewart Lab And Field Studies Of Experience And Subject Pool Effects In Contingent Valuation


Session 15I: Water And Development 1
(Chair: Haynes Goddard)

Presenter: Mohamed Salah Matoussi Modeling A Centralized Water Resources Allocation In A World Of Water Scarcity And Incomplete Information

Presenter: Fahim Uddin Rural Water Supply And Environmental Sanitation Project In U.P. Hills (India): A Model For South Asia

Presenter: Bishwanath Goldar Informal Regulation And Water Quality In Rivers In India

Presenter: Purnamita Dasgupta Benefits Of Safe Water For The Urban Poor In Delhi, India: Alternative Valuation Measures

Presenter: Monica Scatasta Integrated Water Resources Management In Brazil: An Economic-Hydrologic-Institutional Analysis Of The Paraíba Do Sul River Basin

Presenter: Nicola King Valuing A City’S Water: The Tshwane Case Study

Presenter: M G Chandrakanth Negative Externality Due To Cumulative Interference Of Irrigation Wells In Groundwater Irrigation In Hard Rock Areas Of Peninsular India