Subject : Dissemination of Information to INSEE Members Message-Id:X-Mail-Ref: 279 X-Mailer: XMAIL 3.0 generate-delivery-report: Request-Delivery-Notification: true Information Dissemination for members of INSEE from INSEE Office at the Institute of Economic. This message contains the list of latest discussion papers on Environmental Economics available at the Resource for Future (RFF) Web Site and the global annual database on environmental resources published by the World Resource Institute (WRI) entitled as 'world resources 98-99.' 1) Non-market valuation Alan Krupnick, Anna Alberini, Maureen Cropper, and Nathalie Simon, with Kenshi Itaoka and Makoto Akai Mortality Risk Valuation for Environmental Policy | August 1999- 99-47 Amy Whritenour Ando, Economies of Scope in Endangered-Species Protection: Evidence from Interest-Group Behavior | July 1997, revised June 1999- 97-44-REV David Austin, Alan Krupnick, Dallas Burtraw, and Terrell Stoessell. The Benefits of Air Pollutant Emissions Reductions in Maryland: Results from the Maryland Externalities Screening and Valuation Model | October 1998 - 99-05 Ju Chin Huang and V. Kerry Smith, Monte Carlo Benchmarks for Discrete Response Valuation Methods | February 1997- 97-23| Ju-Chin Huang, Douglas W. Nychka, and V. Kerry Smith, Nonparametric Discrete Choice Methods for Measuring Economic Values | June 1996 - 96-19 Ju-Chin Huang and V. Kerry Smith, Weak Complementarity and Quasi-Rents | December 1995- 96-06 Laura L. Osborne and V. Kerry Smith, Environmental Amenities as Sources for Product Differentiation and Market Power | October 1996- 96-37 R. David Simpson and Amy B. Craft, The Social Value of Using Biodiversity in New Pharmaceutical Product Research | September 1996- 96-33 R. David Simpson and Roger A. Sedjo, Valuation of Biodiversity for Use in New Product Research in a Model of Sequential Search | July 1996- 96-27 Raymond J. Kopp and Paul R. Portney, Mock Referenda for Intergenerational Decisionmaking | August 1997- 97-48 Richard T. Carson, W. Michael Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp, Jon A. Krosnick, Robert C. Mitchell, Stanley Presser, Paul A. Ruud, and V. Kerry Smith with Michael Conaway and Kerry Martin , Was the NOAA Panel Correct About Contingent Valuation? June 1996- 96-20 Richard T. Carson, W. Michael Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp, Jon A. Krosnick, Robert C. Mitchell, Stanley Presser, Paul A. Ruud, and V. Kerry Smith Referendum Design and Contingent Valuation: The NOAA Panel's No-Vote Recommendation/ November 1995- 96-05 Richard T. Carson, W. Michael Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp, Jon A. Krosnick, Robert C. Mitchell, Stanley Presser, Paul A. Ruud, and V. Kerry Smith Temporal Reliability of Estimates from Contingent Valuation | August 1995- 95-37 Robert N. Stavins, Private Options to Use Public Goods: The Demand For Fishing Licenses and the Benefits of Recreational Fishing | March 1997- 97-33 Roger A. Sedjo The Forest Sector: Important Innovations | August 1997- 97-42 V. Kerry Smith, George Van Houtven and Subhrendu Pattanayak. Benefit Transfer as Preference Calibration | May 1999- 99-36 V. Kerry Smith , Time and the Valuation of Environmental Resources | November 1997- 98-07 V. Kerry Smith, Kurt A. Schwabe, and Carol Mansfield | Does Nature Limit Environmental Federalism? March 1997- 97-30 V. Kerry Smith and Carol Mansfield, Buying Time: Real and Hypothetical Offers | November 1996- 97-09 V. Kerry Smith, Xiaolong Zhang, and Raymond B. Palmquist, Marine Debris, Beach Quality, and Non-Market Values | December 1995 -96-07 V. Kerry Smith and Laura Osborne, Do Contingent Valuation Estimates Pass a "Scope" Test? A Meta Analysis | June 1995- 95-25 V. Kerry Smith Can Contingent Valuation Distinguish Significant from Trivial Public Goods? | June 1995 - 95-24 V. Kerry Smith, Social Benefits of Education: Feedback Effects and Environmental Resources | March 1995- 95-14 2. Cost Benefit Analysis Alan J. Krupnick and Dallas Burtraw, The Social Cost of Electricity: Do the Numbers Add Up? | August 1996- 96-30 Dallas Burtraw and Alan J. Krupnick, Measuring the Value of Health Improvements from Great Lakes Cleanup April 1999- 99-34 Dallas Burtraw and Erin Mansur The Effects of Trading and Banking in the SO2 Allowance Market | March 1999- 99-25 Dallas Burtraw , Cost Savings, Market Performance, and Economic Benefits of the U.S. Acid Rain Program | April 1998, Revised September 1998- 98-28rev Don Fullerton and Robert N. Stavins, How Do Economists Really Think About the Environment? | April 1998- 98-29 Estimates Dallas Burtraw and Alan J. Krupnick , The Second-Best Use of Social Cost | August 1996- 96-29 Ian W. H. Parry, Tax Deductions, Consumption Distortions, and the Marginal Excess Burden of Taxation | August 1999- 99-48 Ian W. H. Parry and Antonio Bento, Revenue Recycling and the Welfare Effects of Road Pricing | August 1999- 99-45 Ian W. H. Parry and Antonio Miguel Bento, Tax Deductible Spending, Environmental Policy, and the "Double Dividend" Hypothesis | February 1999- 99-24 Ian W.H. Parry, Roberton C. Williams III, and Lawrence H. Goulder, When Can Carbon Abatement Policies Increase Welfare? The Fundamental Role of Distorted Factor Markets | January 1997- 97-18 Ian W. H. Parry and Wallace E. Oates, Policy Analysis in a Second-Best World | September 1998- 98-48 James Boyd, The Benefits of Improved Environmental Accounting: An Economic Framework to Identify Priorities | September 1998- 98-49 Janice V. Mazurek, The Role of Health Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Decision Making in Selected Countries: An Initial Survey | October 1996- 96-36 Lawrence H. Goulder, Ian W. H. Parry, and Dallas Burtraw, Revenue-Raising vs. Other Approaches to Environmental Protection: The Critical Significance of Pre-Existing Tax Distortions | July 1996- 96-24 Lawrence H. Goulder, Ian W. H. Parry, Roberton C. Williams III, and Dallas Burtraw, The Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Instruments for Environmental Protection in a Second-Best Setting | March 1998- 98-22 Michael A. Toman, Ronald Lile, and Dennis King, Assessing Sustainability: Some Conceptual and Empirical Challenges | July 1998- 98-42 Michael A. Toman, Sustainable Decision-making: The State of the Art from an Economics Perspective | June 1998- 98-39 Michael Toman, Research Frontiers in the Economics of Climate Change | April 1998- 98-32 Potential for Carbon Forest Plantations in Marginal Timber Forests: The Case of Patagonia, Argentina Roger A. Sedjo | March 1999- 99-27 Rain Dallas Burtraw, Alan J. Krupnick, Erin Mansur, David Austin, The Costs and Benefits of Reducing Acid and Deirdre Farrell | July 1997; revised September 1997- 97-31-REV Raymond J. Kopp and Paul R. Portney, Mock Referenda for Intergenerational Decisionmaking | August 1997- 97-48 Robert N. Stavins, The Costs of Carbon Sequestration: A Revealed-Preference Approach | April 1995- 95-21 Scott Farrow and Michael Toman, Using Environmental Benefit-Cost Analysis to Improve Government Performance | December 1998- 99-11 V. Kerry Smith and Andres Espinosa, Environmental and Trade Policies: Some Methodological Lessons | June 1996- 96-18 V. Kerry Smith, George Van Houtven and Subhrendu Pattanayak, Benefit Transfer as Preference Calibration | May 1999 - 99-36 V. Kerry Smith and Roger Von Haefen, Welfare Measurement and Representative Consumer Theory | April 1997- 97-32 Winston Harrington, Richard D. Morgenstern and Peter Nelson, On the Accuracy of Regulatory Cost Estimates | January 1999- 99-18 Winston Harrington and Virginia McConnell, Coase and Car Repair: Who Should Be Responsible for Emissions of Vehicles in Use? | February 1999- 99-22 3. Risk David M. Konisky, Comparative Risk Projects: A Methodology for Cross-Project Analysis of Human Health Risk Rankings | August 1999- 99-46 Henning Bohn and Robert T. Deacon, Ownership Risk, Investment, and the Use of Natural Resources | February 1997- 97-20 James Boyd and Howard Kunreuther, Retroactive Liability and Future Risk: The Optimal Regulation of Underground Storage Tanks | October 1995- 96-02 James D. Wilson, Default and Inference Options: Use in Recurrent and Ordinary Risk Decisions | February 1998 - 98-17 James D. Wilson, Thresholds for Carcinogens: A Review of the Relevant Science and its Implications for Regulatory Policy | June 1996- 96-21 Jan Mazurek and Robert Hersh, Land Use and Remedy Selection: Experience from the Field -- The Abex Site | March 1997- 97-26 Janice V. Mazurek , The Role of Health Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Decision Making in Selected Countries: An Initial Survey | October 1996- 96-36 Kris Wernstedt, Oil and Water Don't Mix: Risk on Tap in Western Siberia | December 1996- 97-14 Mark R. Powell, Science in Sanitary and Phytosanitary Dispute Resolution | September 1997- 97-50 Mark R. Powell and James D. Wilson, Risk Assessment for National Natural Resource Conservation Programs | August 1997- 97-49 Terry Davies and Nicole Darnall, Environmental Priorities for the District of Columbia: A Report to the Summit Fund | November 1996- 97-04 William A. Pizer, Optimal Choice of Policy Instrument and Stringency Under Uncertainty: The Case of Climate Change | January 1997- 97-17 4. Modelling Allen Blackman and James Boyd, The Economics of Tailored Regulation: Will Voluntary Site-Specific Performance Standards Necessarily Improve Welfare? December 1999- 00-03 Brent Sohngen, Robert Mendelsohn, Roger Sedjo, and Kenneth Lyon, An Analysis of Global Timber Markets | May 1997- 97-37 Carolyn Fischer, Read This Paper Even Later: Procrastination with Time-Inconsistent Preferences | January 1999- 99-20 Carolyn Fischer, Read This Paper Later: Procrastination with Time-Consistent Preferences | January 1999- 99-19 David Austin, Alan Krupnick, Dallas Burtraw, and Terrell Stoessell, The Benefits of Air Pollutant Emissions Reductions in Maryland: Results from the Maryland Externalities Screening and Valuation Model | October 1998- 99-05 Ju Chin Huang and V. Kerry Smith, Monte Carlo Benchmarks for Discrete Response Valuation Methods | February 1997- 97-23 Ju-Chin Huang and V. Kerry Smith, Weak Complementarity and Quasi-Rents December 1995- 96-06 Ju-Chin Huang, Douglas W. Nychka, and V. Kerry Smith, Nonparametric Discrete Choice Methods for Measuring Economic Values | June 1996- 96-19 Laura L. Osborne and V. Kerry Smith, Environmental Amenities as Sources for Product Differentiation and Market Power | October 1996- 96-37' Marine Debris, Beach Quality, and Non-Market Values V. Kerry Smith, Xiaolong Zhang, and Raymond B. Palmquist | December 1995- 96-07 Richard G. Newell and William A. Pizer, Regulating Stock Externalities Under Uncertainty | December 1998- 99-10 Richard D. Morgenstern, William A. Pizer, and Jhih-Shyang Shih, Jobs versus the Environment: Is There a Trade-off? | October 1998- 99-01 Richard D. Morgenstern, William A. Pizer, and Jhih-Shyang Shih | Are We Overstating the Real Economic Costs of Environmental Protection? May 1997; revised June 1997- 97-36-REV Robert N. Stavins, The Costs of Carbon Sequestration: A Revealed-Preference Approach April 1995- 95-21 Roger A. Sedjo and Alberto Goetzl, Models Needed to Assist in the Development of a National Fiber Supply Strategy for the 21st Century: Report of a Workshop | February 1997- 97-22 Roger A Sedjo and Kenneth S. Lyon, Timber Supply Model 96: A Global Timber Supply Model with a Pulpwood Component | April 1996- 96-15 V. Kerry Smith and Andres Espinosa, Environmental and Trade Policies: Some Methodological Lessons | June 1996- 96-18 V. Kerry Smith and Roger Von Haefen, Welfare Measurement and Representative Consumer Theory | April 1997- 97-32 V. Kerry Smith and Laura Osborne, Do Contingent Valuation Estimates Pass a "Scope" Test? A Meta Analysis | June 1995- 95-25 V. Kerry Smith, Can Contingent Valuation Distinguish Significant from Trivial Public Goods? | June 1995- 95-24 William A. Pizer, Optimal Choice of Policy Instrument and Stringency Under Uncertainty: The Case of Climate Change January 1997- 97-17 William Pizer, Prices Vs. Quantities Revisited: The Case of Climate Change | October 1997- 98-02 5. Regulatory Design Alan Krupnick, Virginia McConnell, David Austin, Matt Cannon, Terrell Stoessell, and Brian Morton, The Chesapeake Bay and the Control of NOx Emissions: A Policy Analysis | August 1998- 98-46 Alan Krupnick, Winston Harrington, and Anna Alberini Public Support for Pollution Fee Policies for Motor Vehicles: Survey Results | December 1996- 97-13 Allen Blackman and Geoffrey J. Bannister, Community Pressure and Clean Technologies in the Informal Sector: An Econometric Analysis of the Adoption of Propane by Traditional Brickmakers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico | January 1997- 97-16 Allen Blackman and James Boyd, The Economics of Tailored Regulation: Will Voluntary Site-Specific Performance Standards Necessarily Improve Welfare? | December 1999- 00-03 Allen Blackman, Informal Sector Pollution Control: What Policy Options Do We Have? December 1999- 00-02 Allen Blackman and Alan Krupnick, Location Efficiency and Mortgage Default August 1999- 99-49 Allen Blackman and Winston Harrington, The Use of Economic Incentives in Developing Countries: Lessons from International Experience with Industrial Air Pollution | May 1999- 99-39 Allen Blackman and Janice Mazurek, The Cost of Developing Site-Specific Environmental Regulations: Evidence from EPA's Project XL April 1999- 99-35 Amy W. Ando, Winston Harrington, and Virginia McConnell Estimating Full IM240 Emissions from Partial Test Results: Evidence from Arizona March 1998- 98-24 Anna Alberini, Winston Harrington, and Virginia McConnell, Fleet Turnover and Old Car Scrap Policies | March 1998- 98-23 Clark S. Binkley, Forestry in the Next Millennium: Challenges and Opportunities for the USDA Forest Service | January 1999- 99-15 Carolyn Fischer, Ian W. H. Parry and William A. Pizer, Instrument Choice for Environmental Protection When Technological Innovation is Endogenous | October 1998- 99-04 Carolyn Fischer, Suzi Kerr and Michael A. Toman, Using Emissions Trading to Regulate U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Overview of Policy Design and Implementation Issues | July 1998- 98-40 David H. Austin, Alan J. Krupnick, and Virginia D. McConnell, Efficiency and Political Economy of Pollution Control with Ancillary Benefits: An Application to NOX Control in the Chesapeake Bay Airshed | May 1997- 97-34 Dallas Burtraw and Alan J. Krupnick, The Second-Best Use of Social Cost Estimates | August 1996- 96-29 Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, and Alan J. Krupnick,'Second-Best' Adjustments to Externality Estimates in Electricity Planning with Competition | October 1995- 96-04 Dallas Burtraw and Erin Mansur, The Effects of Trading and Banking in the SO2 Allowance Market | March 1999- 99-25 Deirdre Farrell, Winston Harrington, and Alan J. Krupnick, Learning from Experiments: An Evaluation Plan for CMAQ Projects | February 1998- 98-18 Douglas R. Bohi and Dallas Burtraw, SO2 Allowance Trading: How Experience and Expectations Measure Up February 1997- 97-24 Ian W. H. Parry, Tax Deductions, Consumption Distortions, and the Marginal Excess Burden of Taxation | August 1999- 99-48 Ian W. H. Parry, The Costs of Restrictive Trade Policies in the Presence of Factor Tax Distortions | June 1998- 98-37 Ian W. H. Parry and Antonio Bento, Revenue Recycling and the Welfare Effects of Road Pricing | August 1999- 99-45 Ian W. H. Parry and Antonio Miguel Bento, Tax Deductible Spending, Environmental Policy, and the "Double Dividend" Hypothesis | February 1999- 99-24 Ian W. H. Parry and Wallace E. Oates, Policy Analysis in a Second-Best World September 1998- 98-48 Ian W. H. Parry, Agricultural Policies in the Presence of Distorting Taxes November 1997- 98-05 Ian W.H. Parry, Roberton C. Williams III, and Lawrence H. Goulder, When Can Carbon Abatement Policies Increase Welfare? The Fundamental Role of Distorted Factor Markets | January 1997- 97-18 James Boyd, Environmental Remediation and Economies in Transition | January 1999- 99-21 James Boyd, Searching for the Profit in Pollution Prevention: Case Studies in the Corporate Evaluation of Environmental Opportunities | May 1998- 98-30 James Boyd and Howard Kunreuther, Retroactive Liability and Future Risk: The Optimal Regulation of Underground Storage Tanks | October 1995- 96-02 James Boyd, Banking on 'Green Money': Are Environmental Financial Responsibility Rules Fulfilling Their Promise? | July 1996- 96-26 James Boyd, Alan J. Krupnick, and Janice Mazurek, Intel's XL Permit: A Framework for Evaluation | January 1998- 98-11 James Boyd and Timothy J. Brennan, Pluralism and Regulatory Failure: When Should Takings Trigger Compensation? | January 1996- 96-09 Jerrell Richer, Green Giving: An Analysis of Contributions to Major U.S. Environmental Groups | September 1995 95-39 Lawrence H. Goulder, Ian W. H. Parry, and Dallas Burtraw, Revenue-Raising vs. Other Approaches to Environmental Protection: The Critical Significance of Pre-Existing Tax Distortions | July 1996 - 96-24 Mark R. Powell, Three-City Air Study | March 1997- 97-29 Mark Powell, Ron Lile, and Michael Toman, Assessing the Constraints and Opportunities for Private Sector Participation in Activities Implemented Jointly: Two Case Studies From the U.S. Initiative for Joint Implementation | July 1997; revised September 1997- 97-38-REV Project Allen Blackman and Geoffrey J. Bannister , Cross-Border Environmental Management and the Informal Sector: The Ciudad Juarez Brickmakers' | July 1996- 96-22 Richard D. Morgenstern, Environmental Taxes: Dead or Alive? October 1995 96-03 Robert Hersh, A Review of Integrated Pollution Control Efforts in Selected Countries | December 1996- 97-15 Sally Fairfax, Lessons for the Forest Service from State Trust Land Management Experience | January 1999- 99-16 Timothy J. Brennan, The Economics of Competition Policy: Recent Developments and Cautionary Notes in Antitrust and Regulation January 2000- 00-07 V. Kerry Smith and Carol Mansfield, Buying Time: Real and Hypothetical Offers | November 1996- 97-09 William Pizer, Prices Vs. Quantities Revisited: The Case of Climate Change | October 1997- 98-02 Winston Harrington, Alan J. Krupnick,and Anna Alberini, Overcoming Public Aversion to Congestion Pricing April 1998- 98-27 The global annual database on environment resources published by the World Resource Institute (WRI) entitled as 'World Resources 98-99' provides an information useful for researchers of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Following is the brief of the report: FACTS AND FIGURES: ENVIRONMENTAL DATA TABLES The following data tables, from World Resources 1998-99, present some of the information required to build a basic picture of the state of the Earth in its human, economic, and environmental dimensions. Where possible, the data tables assembled here show how these dimensions have changed over time. In an increasingly interdependent world, a picture of the whole is needed to understand the interactions of human development, population growth, economic growth, and the environment. Managing communities, nations, or global resources for sustainable development requires this same information. Atmosphere and Climate This data set provides globally comprehensive and comparable estimates of emissions from industrial processes; a detailed view of emissions in specific countries; the global time series of CO2 emissions from industrial processes; and changes in concentrations for important trace gases that either contribute to global warming or to the depletion of the ozone layer. Bio-diversity These tables document the extent of governmental response to threats to bio-diversity and provide basic data on each country's natural endowment in biological resources in terms of selected species groups. Economic Indicators These tables provide basic measures of the size and structure of economies and their growth rates; essential parameters describing the importance of debt and aid in the world economy; and commodity prices to allow understanding of the trajectory of trade and potential course of development. Energy and Materials These tables provides essential production data for fossil fuels, primary electricity, and natural minerals and materials; energy consumption data for commercial and traditional fuels; and information on changing trends in production of electricity. Food and Agriculture These tables provide basic data that allow understanding of trends in food production; land, machinery, and chemical inputs to agricultural systems; and variations in food security. Forests and Land Cover These tables provide basic data describing the physical footprint of people on the earth's surface; the extent and rate of change in the world's forest resources, and the demand for forest products and their international context. Freshwater This set of tables provides data on the extent of renewable freshwater resources in each country; the standard measure of its withdrawal and use; groundwater recharge and withdrawals and desalinated water production; basic data on water quality in European lakes; and key environmental data for 69 watersheds of the world. Health These tables provide health data parameters describing adult and children's health and mortality; reported cases of infectious diseases; extent and availability of health care; air pollution levels in major cities of the world; extent of lead use in gasoline and locations of lead production; and basic human health parameters reported at the household level using Demographic and Health Surveys. Oceans and Fisheries These tables provide essential data to understand the pressures on marine and freshwater fisheries; regional data on pressures on marine fisheries; and regional sea data on marine species. Population and Human Development These tables provide essential information for environmental analysis regarding demographic parameters including population size, economically active subset, and speed of change; income distribution; and social investment in terms of access to various services such as sanitation and health. Urban Data The urban tables provide data at two levels: at the country level including total urban population, percentage urban, and urban growth rates; and at the city level including city populations, growth rates, and various parameters that measure the quality of the city environment. With Regards Surekha Kaul Institute of Economic Growth E-mail: sk@ieg.ernet.in