Showing papers in "Ecological Economics in 1998"

TL;DR: This paper provided a crude initial estimate of the value of ecosystem services to the economy using data from previous published studies and a few original calculations, and estimated the current economic value of 17 ecosystem services for 16 biomes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a more equitable distribution of power is proposed to enhance the influence on policy of those who bear the costs of pollution, relative to those who benefit from pollution-generating activities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of trade policy orientation on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and found that while both industrializing and industrialized countries have added to their energy requirements by exporting manufactured goods, the growth has been substantially higher in the former.

TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative growth model is specified and estimated for three types of emissions (CO2, NOx and SO2) in four countries (Netherlands, UK, USA and Western Germany) and it is found that the time patterns of these emissions correlate positively with economic growth and that emission reductions may have been achieved as a result of structural and technological changes in the economy.

TL;DR: The main argument of as mentioned in this paper is that weak comparability of values should be seen as one characteristic feature of ecological economics, and the formal properties of the concepts of strong comparability (e.g., strong or weak commensurability) and weak comparality (implying incommensurality) will be clarified.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate how well these reports have lived up to their own conceptual mandate and assesses the ability of the human development index to further the development debate, finding that the reports have lost touch with their original vision and the index fails to capture the essence of the world it seeks to portray.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-examine the concept of the environmental Kuznets curve and propose the use of alternative, consumption-based measures of environmental impact, such as CO2 emissions and municipal waste, which show no tendency to decline with increasing per capita income.

TL;DR: A recent forum on the value of ecosystem services and its value to society has been organized by as mentioned in this paper to encourage discussion and commentary on the fundamental issues these works raise from a range of different perspectives and extensions to new, as yet uncharted areas.

TL;DR: In this article, a modified form of input-output analysis is used to calculate the ecological footprint, which provides an estimate of the land area necessary to sustain current levels of resource consumption for a given population.

TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that unequal exchange emerges from a kind of inverse relationship between productive potential and economic value, where the notion of a reasonable market price conceals the fact that what is being exchanged are intact resources for products representing resources already spent.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between income and the atmospheric concentration of sulfur dioxide and showed that the spatial intensity of economic activity, rather than income, provides the impetus for policies and technologies that reduce SO2 emissions.

TL;DR: The authors examines how preferences evolve and change over time and the implications of this for developing policies that meet the three rank ordered goals of ecological sustainability, fair distribution, and allocative efficiency in democratic societies.

TL;DR: In this article, an analytical framework for urban sustainable development is presented to present the main economic concepts that are hidden under this label, and the main aim of this paper is to highlight the possible intervention policies which may be developed to achieve a balanced sustainable development in terms of new policy principles that should govern the sustainable city.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes and tests the hypothesis that political and economic equality result in lower levels of environmental degradation and shows that under some plausible conditions, greater inequality may even be conducive to lower degradation.

TL;DR: This paper argued that contingent valuation can take into account these kinds of judgments only if it moves toward a deliberative, discursive, jury-like research method emphasizing informed discussion leading toward a consensus based on an argument about the public interest.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the work of the Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Maryland and its relationship with the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCSA).

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that the real economic significance of the second law lies in the fact that exergy is not conserved; and that it is a useful common measure of resource quality, as well as quantity, applicable to both materials and energy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present evidence that this is not representative of the way many individual country's pollution emission trajectories evolve and question the emphasis on "income determinism" by the environmental Kuznets curve.

TL;DR: In this article, a transdisciplinary approach is proposed to guide sustainability-related planning and management activities. But the proposed approach involves much more than the usual interaction between partners from different disciplines, and it requires a more open recognition of the subjective priorities that become the framework of sustainable development issues.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize empirical studies completed to date that test whether undesirable land uses have observable negative effects on adjacent property values and assess minimum valuations of terminating undesirable land use, such as clean-up of hazardous sites, or compensation necessary to ameliorate the economic impacts of new undesirable uses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the sources and patterns of respondents' uncertainty regarding their willingness to pay (WTP) and presented alternative approaches for incorporating this uncertainty into estimation of the logit model.

TL;DR: This paper found that heavy polluters are affected more significantly than minor polluters by the public ranking of firms in terms of their environmental performance, and firms whose market values are hurt most by the release of this information are most likely to invest in pollution abatement.

TL;DR: It is concluded that this multi-agent modelling approach is a good illustration of how adaptive behavior can be included in global change modelling.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the possibility of using a large scale multi-country contingent valuation study for making decisions concerning global resources in the specific context of valuing a large set of tropical rainforests.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss both the limitations and possible uses of the sustainability discourse and why we must go beyond sustainability if we are successfully to address the present disorder regarding the human relationship to nature.

TL;DR: In this article, the concept of "environmental function" is used in combination with system diagrams to identify and assess goods and services produced by the system under different management regimes to enable assessment of the economic efficiency of the management regimes.

TL;DR: This article used factor analysis and a discrete choice model to describe differences in public preferences that result from different attitudes regarding the goals of programs designed to preserve farmland and open space, and showed that public preferences for environmental policies often vary among individual citizens according to their socioeconomic characteristics and attitudes toward environmental programs.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study identifies the different interest groups and stakeholders involved in biodiversity conservation and analyses the policy prescriptions they promote, highlighting inadequacies in scientific understanding of the dynamics of complex systems; lack of historic data on resource use; and crucially, the use/misuse of existing data by different interests.