This paper examines the relationship between futures and spot electricity prices for two of the Australian electricity regions in the National Electricity Market (NEM): namely, New South Wales and Victoria. A generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model is used to...

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...

The English Channel fishery is a multispecies multigear fishery that can be considered to be an amalgam of numerous separate sub-fisheries. Commercial activity in the fishery is predominantly undertaken by fishers from the UK and France. The purpose in this paper is to present the results of a...

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]: 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...

[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...

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...

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...

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...