Showing papers by "Stephen Farber published in 1995"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on estimates of cost savings from using coastal wetlands for substitute treatment in Louisiana, U.S.A. They found that the discounted cost savings ranged from $785 to $34 700 per acre of wetlands used for treatment.

TL;DR: The economic costs and benefits of chemical and low-purchased-input ecological technologies are compared in two Honduran rural development projects as discussed by the authors, and the results show that the farmers utilizing the ecological technologies have achieved this yield increase with one-fifth the chemical fertilizer, and substantially lower overall costs.

TL;DR: The Environmental Scorecard as mentioned in this paper is an incentive-based instrument which established an explicit formula for determining the percentage of a property tax exemption a facility would receive, and was implemented in Louisiana for one year before it was terminated for political reasons.