The paper investigates the relationship between the announcement of a proposed haul route and its impact on nearby property values. A large number of studies have been conducted using hedonic property value models to show the impact of environmental disamenities on property values, but to our...

A plethora of literature exists on irrigation development. However, only a few studies analyse the distributional issues associated with irrigation induced technological changes (IITC) in the context of commodity markets. Furthermore, these studies deal with only the theoretical arguments and to...

In this paper we test the Environment Kuznet's Curve (EKC) hypothesis for 43 developing countries. We suggest examining the EKC hypothesis based on the short- and long-run income elasticities; that is, if the long-run income elasticity is smaller than the short-run income elasticity then it is...

Combinatorial auctions allow bidders to bid on individual items or bundles of items. This enables bidders to take advantage of the synergy or complementarity in their valuations of bundles. However, the number of bundles or packages that a bidder could explore may be large making these auctions...

[Abstract]: The task of marketing non-timber forest products (NTFP) has been one of the major challenges to NTFP collectors in Nepal and elsewhere. Owing to their ignorance about the prevailing market prices, the inaccessible terrains and inefficient marketing policies, the collectors are forced...

This study investigates the short-run dynamics and long-run equilibrium relationship between residential electricity demand and factors influencing demand - per capita income, price of electricity, price of kerosene oil and price of liquefied petroleum gas - using annual data for Sri Lanka for...

The focus of this article is on the cost-effectiveness of mitigation strategies to reduce pollution loads and improve water quality in South-East Queensland. Scenarios were developed about the types of catchment interventions that could be considered, and the resulting changes in water quality...

[Abstract]: This paper assesses the economic efficiency of the public-private-community partnership in urban solid waste management in Dhaka City. Waste Concern, a local non-government organization, trialled a partnership approach by integrating all the key stakeholders involved with waste...

Much has been achieved in Australia since the release of the Hilmer (Hilmer et al. 1993) report in 1993, especially in the recent decade with water reform. Prices are beginning to reflect full costs of supply. The same engagement of the reform agenda can not be said for urban waste water and...

Decommissioning programmes have been used in many countries in an attempt to reduce the level of overexploitation in fisheries. The extent to which human capital enhancement may offset capacity reductions, however, has not been previously examined. The study uses a stochastic production frontier...