Economics and Ecology: The Need for Detente in Conservation Ecology (1998)
Kahn, James R; Department Of Economics,University Of Tennessee; Jkahn@utk.edu, Russell, Clifford S; Institute For Public Policy Studies, Vanderbilt University; Russell@uansv5.vanderbilt.edu
Economics and Ecology: The Need for Detente in Conservation Ecology (1998)
O'Neill, Robert V., Kahn, James R., Russell, Clifford S.
"The most important problem facing our species in the next century is how to reconcile our insatiable drive for development with the limited resources of our planet. Attempts at resolution, which...
A PRESERVAÇÃO AMBIENTAL É UM BEM DE LUXO? UM ESTUDO SOBRE VALOR DE ECOSSISTEMAS NA AMAZÔNIA
Alexandre Rivas, James F. Casey, James R. Kahn
This paper looks at the question of whether subsistence level/indigenous people place a value on the preservation of ecosystems independent of direct impacts of environmental change, such as impacts...
Information and the subsistence farmer's decision to deforest in Latin America
James F. Casey, James R. Kahn, Alexandre Rivas
This paper investigates the role that information plays in the decision by subsistence farmers to deforest, and generates a body of evidence from three Latin American studies demonstrating that...
Carbon annuities have been suggested as a means for rewarding landowners for preserving forests and sequestering carbon. Although this is an intuitively appealing approach, the benefits of the...
Information and the subsistence farmer's decision to deforest in Latin America
James F. Casey, James R. Kahn, Alexandre Rivas
This paper investigates the role that information plays in the decision by subsistence farmers to deforest, and generates a body of evidence from three Latin American studies demonstrating that...
Carbon annuities have been suggested as a means for rewarding landowners for preserving forests and sequestering carbon. Although this is an intuitively appealing approach, the benefits of the...
Casey, James F., Kahn, James R., Rivas, Alexandre A.F.
This paper looks at the question of whether subsistence level/indigenous people place a value on the preservation of ecosystems independent of direct impacts of environmental change, such as impacts...
Taking the "U" out of Kuznets: A comprehensive analysis of the EKC and environmental degradation
Caviglia-Harris, Jill L., Chambers, Dustin, Kahn, James R.
Unlike most Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) studies which focus on narrow measures of pollution as proxies for environmental quality, we test the validity of the EKC using the Ecological Footprint...
Ecological Interaction as a Source of Economic Irreversibility
James R. Kahn, Robert V. O’Neill
Irreversibility can be either physical or economic in origin. For example, the extinction of a species is physically irreversible. On the other hand, contamination of lake-bottom sediments by mercury...
New York Value of Chesapeake Striped Bass
Buerger, Robert, Kahn, James R.
This article looks at the interstate open-access externalities associated with Chesapeake Bay striped bass. These fish spawn in the Chesapeake Bay and then migrate to other areas of the East Coast....
Measuring the Economic Damages Associated with Terrestrial Pollution of Marine Ecosystems
This paper looks at the problem of modelling the welfare consequences of the effects of environmental changes on the bioeconomic equilibrium of fisheries. The equilibrium catch equation is suggested...
Fuel Economy Rebound Effect for U.S. Household Vehicles
David L. Greene, James R. Kahn, Robert C. Gibson
This paper presents an econometric estimation of the "rebound effect" for household vehicle travel in the United States based on analysis of survey data collected by the Energy Information...