Abstract: This paper presents a cost–benefit analysis of the Stockholm congestion charging system, based on the observed rather than on the model-forecasted data. The most important data sources are travel time and traffic flow measurements made in the year before the charges were introduced (during April 2005) and during [...]
Abstract: This paper reviews the methods and technologies for congestion pricing of roads. Congestion tolls can be implemented at scales ranging from individual lanes on single links to national road networks. Tolls can be differentiated by time of day, road type and vehicle characteristics, and even set in real [...]
On October 29, 2009, the Save The Waves Coalition announced the preliminary results from its second “Surfonomics” study, a measure of the economic value of the world-famous big-wave break at Mavericks in Half Moon Bay, California. The study found that the surfing site and area has an estimated economic [...]
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Cost?Benefit Analysis (CBA) is one of the most useful tools of applied economics for the social appraisal of public projects and government policies. This textbook shows how CBA can be applied to environmental policy choice and environmental resource management. It covers the conceptual underpinnings of CBA, [...]
Summary: This analysis provides an example of how biodiversity can be measured by means of different indicators, and how the latter can be used to assess the influence of the biodiversity profile of a region on the tourism flows towards it. Previous studies have considered environmental amenities as one [...]
According to Tom Zeller Jr. writing in the November 1, 2009 New York Times:
News last week of the first major influx of Chinese capital and wind turbine manufacturing expertise into the renewable energy market in the United States — a 600-megawatt wind farm planned for the plains of west [...]
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Representatives McDermott (D-WA) and Petri (R-WI) have introduced H.R. 3503, the Salmon Solutions and Planning Act, to help save billions of taxpayer dollars by ensuring that the best available science and economics are used to recover salmon to the Columbia and Snake River Basin. If action is not [...]
