Parallel Session 03 Monday, June 24th 2002 - 2:15 - 4:15 pm


Session 3A: Climate Change 3
(Chair: Harmen Verbruggen)

Presenter: Andreas Löschel The Economic And Environmental Implications Of The U.S. Repudiation Of The Kyoto Protocol And The Subsequent Deals In Bonn And Marrakech (Discussant: Ulf Moslener)

Presenter: Barbara Buchner On The Consequences Of The U.S. Withdrawal From The Kyoto/Bonn Protocol (Discussant: Stephane De Cara)

Presenter: Claudia Kemfert Economic Impact Assessment Of Alternative Climate Policy Strategies (Discussant: Taran Faehn)


Session 3B: Environmental Valuation 2
(Chair: Alan Randall)

Presenter: Roberto Leon-Gonzalez Single Or Double Bounded Contingent Valuation? A Bayesian Test (Discussant: Nicholas Flores)

Presenter: Paulo Ald Nunes Warm Glow And Embedding In Contingent Valuation (Discussant: Kenji Takeuchi)

Presenter: Glenn W Harrison Contingent Valuation Meets The Experts: A Critique Of The NOAA Panel Report (Discussant: John Duffield)

Presenter: Christopher Leggett Evidence Of Social Desirability Bias Contingent Valuation Surveys Administered Through In-Person Interviews. (Discussant: Susana Mourato)


Session 3C: Tropical Deforestation: Issues, Research And Policy Prescriptions
(Chair: Tom Tomich)

Presenter: Cheryl Palm Starting From The Bottom: Analyses Of Land Use Systems

Presenter: Chantal Line Carpentier Moving To The Farm Level: A Bioeconomic Model Of Resource Use In The Western Brazilian Amazon

Presenter: Frank Place Resource Tenure And Resource Use: Views From The Household And Community Levels

Presenter: Andrea Cattaneo Sorting Out The Forests From The Trees: Macroeconomic Policy, Extra-Regional Trends And Deforestation In Brazil

Presenter: Marian S delos Angeles Paying The Bill For Forest Preservation: Environmental Services Payments And Ecosystem Stewardship


Session 3D: Growth
(Chair: Raymond Kopp)

Presenter: Rabindra Nath Chakraborty Rural Environmental Degradation, Growth, And Income Distribution In A Structuralist Two-Sector Model (Discussant: Jesse Czelusta)

Presenter: Ariaster B Chimeli Economic Growth And The Dynamics Of Environmental Quality (Discussant: Alexander Golub)

Presenter: Clas Eriksson Economic Growth, Inequality, Democratization And The Environment (Discussant: Susana Ferreira)

Presenter: Thomas Berger Environment, Migration And Technological Change: Modeling The Dynamic Decision-Making Process At Farm-Household Level (Discussant: Amos Zemel)


Session 3E: Lobbying
(Chair: Wallace Oates)

Presenter: W Bowman Cutter Who's Responsible? How The Assignment Of Regulatory Authority Influences Regulatory Effort (Discussant: Wen Chern)

Presenter: Hossein Farzin Pollution Abatement Investment When Firms Lobby Against Environmental Regulation (Discussant: Michael Ash)

Presenter: Peter Berck Efficiency Controls And The Captured Fishery Regulator (Discussant: Moriki Hosoe)

Presenter: Edward B Barbier Lobbying, Trade And Resource Conversion (Discussant: Carol McAusland)


Session 3E: The Geography Of Pollution: Environmental Justice And Federalism
(Chair: V K Smith)

Presenter: Ann Wolverton Does Race Matter? An Examination Of Polluting Plants' Location Decisions (Discussant: Matthew Kahn)

Presenter: Randy Becker Pollution Abatement Expenditure By U.S. Manufacturing Plants: Do Community Characteristics Matter? (Discussant: Eli Berman)

Presenter: Wayne Gray Optimal Pollution Abatement: Whose Benefits Matter, And How Much? (Discussant: Arik Levinson)

Presenter: Hilary Sigman Federalism And Transboundary Pollution: Water Quality In U.S. Rivers (Discussant: Anna Alberini)


Session 3G: Ecological Economics: Ecology, Entropy, Epistemology, And Ethics
(Chair: Richard B Norgaard)

Presenter: Charles Perrings Ecological And Economic System Dynamics

Presenter: Stefan Baumgartner Thermodynamics And The Economics Of Absolute Scarcity

Presenter: Richard Norgaard Epistemological Complications Of Ecological Economics

Presenter: Richard Howarth Equity And Efficiency In Ecological Economics


Session 3H: Consumer Valuation Of Risk
(Chair: Katrin Millock)

Presenter: David Zilberman Food Safety Policies: Science Versus Beliefs (Discussant: Estelle Gozlan)

Presenter: Anne Rozan A Contingent Valuation Of Risk Perception For Heavy Metals In Food: Some Complementary Indicators (Discussant: Peter Frykblom)

Presenter: Paul Kivi Ambiguity In Food Safety Valuation (Discussant: Marc Willinger)

Presenter: Joshua Graff Zivin Ensuring A Safe Food Supply: The Importance Of Heterogeneity (Discussant: To be announced )


Session 3I: Land Management
(Chair: Aldo Cerda)

Presenter: Jay P Shimshack Crop Insurance And The Extensive Margin (Discussant: Valentina Lira)

Presenter: Anders Skonhoft The Bioeconomics Of Controlling An African Rodent Pest Species (Discussant: Baishali Bakshi)

Presenter: Rolf Groeneveld Land Trade, Transaction Costs, And The Optimal Configuration Of Nature Conservation (Discussant: Henry Thille)

Presenter: Jeffrey R Vincent Potential Welfare Gains Under Specialized Forest Management (Discussant: Eric Lichtenberg)