Camp Resources XVII
Camp Resources XVII [Schedule] returned to the coast and
was held on June 24 – 25, 2010 at the Blockade-Runner Beach Resort
in scenic Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
Camp Resources was held earlier this year — in late June rather than August as in past years. This change was made so that European and other international participants in the Fourth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists held June 28 to July 2, 2010 in Montreal, Canada could include attendance at Camp Resources XVII in their travel plans.
Leveraging the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, this year’s Camp had a distinctively international flair. Outstanding graduate students, young professionals and faculty from around the world were brought to Wilmington. In addition to several prominent environmental economists from North Carolina and throughout the U.S. who participated in this year’s Camp Resources, we were fortunate to have outstanding international scholars Fredrik Carlsson and Thomas Sterner of Gothenburg University in Gothenburg, Sweden, and Riccardo Scarpa of the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand as our featured senior mentors to provide feedback to presenters. They also presented short overviews of their current research interests.
It was also fitting, and timely, that Dr. James Leutze, Chancellor Emeritus, University of North Carolina, Wilmington joined us and presented a luncheon address “Energy Production along the US Outer Continental Shelf: Conflicts, Policy Challenges, and Opportunities for North Carolina”. We had 57 attendees for this year’s workshop.
Below you will find links to the presentations and papers (when available) for each of the sessions and proceedings. To receive announcements about future Camp Resources please contact Jack Crawley at jack_crawley@ncsu.edu or 919-513-3763.
“Gas Taxes: Do They Hurt the Poor? Distributional Aspects of Fuel Taxation in Various Countries”
Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
“Field Experiments and Environmental Economics”
Fredrik Carlsson, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
“Empirical Steps towards a Research Design in Multi-Attribute Non-Market Valuation”
Riccardo Scarpa, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Session 1: Autos and Fuel
“Estimating Willingness to Pay for Conventional and V2G Electric Vehicles”
Michael K. Hidrue, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
George R. Parsons, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
“How Gasoline Prices Impact Household Driving and Auto Purchasing Decisions”
E. Beia Spiller, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
“Liberalization of Trade in Biofuels: Implications for GHG Emissions and Social Welfare”
Xiaoguang Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Hayri Onal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Session 2: Stated Preference
“Internal Consistency in Double Bounded Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation: Use of Explicit Decision Rules and Sequential and Advance Revelation Learning Design (LDCV)”
Claudia D. Aravena Novielli, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UK
George Hutchinson, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UK
Fredrik Carlsson, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
“The Differential Valuation of Farm Animal Welfare Benefits”
Ariane Kehlbacher, University of Reading, Reading, UK
R.M. Bennett, University of Reading, Reading, UK
K.G. Balcombe, University of Reading, Reading, UK
“Protest Beliefs in Contingent Valuation: Latent Variable and Latent Class Models”
Vladimir Otrachshenko, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Maria A. Cunha-e-Sá, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Luis C. Nunes, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Session 3: Information
“Voluntary Contributions and the Effect of Watchdog Ratings”
Laura E. Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
“Context, Bayesian Updating and Cry Wolf Phenomenon in Hurricane Evacuation Behavior: A Panel Study”
Pallab Mozumder, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Hugh Gladwin, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Fang Zhao, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
“On the Crowding Effect of Public Policies”
Clara Inés Villeges-Palacio, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Peter Martinsson, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Jorge Bonilla-Londoño, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Session 4: Land and Water
“Valuing Landscape Patterns in an Urban Environment”
Jonathan Kadish, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, USA
Noelwah Netusil, Reed College, Portland, OR, USA
“Disentangling the Impacts of Environmental Contamination from Locally Undesirable Land-Uses (LULUs) on Residential Property Values”
Xiangping Liu, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Laura Taylor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Dan Phaneuf, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
“The Role of Information in Behavioral and Environmental Health Economics: An Experimental Approach”
Madeleine Baker-Goering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Session #5, Development and Experiments
“Long-Term, Heterogeneous Treatment Effects from Non-Pecuniary Approaches to Common Pool Management: A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment”
Juan Jose Miranda Montero, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Paul J. Ferraro, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
“A Discrete Choice Experiment to Assess Perceptions of Environmental Health Risks: The Case of Indoor Residual Spraying to Reduce Malaria in Northern Uganda”
Zachary S. Brown, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Randall A. Kramer, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
“Conservation Policies and Labor Markets: Unraveling the Effects of National Parks on Local Wages in Costa Rica”
Laura Villalobos Fiatt, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE)
Juan Robalino, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica
Session 6: Firm Response to Environmental Regulations
“Incentives of Carbon Dioxide Regulation for Investment in Clean Electricity Technologies”
Anya Castillo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Joshua Linn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, USA
“Environmental Regulation and Plant Location Decisions”
J. Scott Holladay, New York, University, New York, NY, USA
“Dynamic Adaption in Long-Term Contracts: The Case of US Coal from 1980-2000”
Kanishka Kacker, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Thursday Research Sketches
Aneel Salman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
“Climate Change and Sustainable Well-being in Pakistan”
Peter Maniloff, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
“Price Containment for Cap-and-Trade”
Godwin Kofi Vondolia, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
“Bio-economic Model of Spatial Fishery Management in Developing Countries”
Congwen Zhang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, USA
“Protecting Lakes from Eurasian Watermilfoil Invasion”
Daniela Miteva, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
“Making Ends Meet: Modeling Biodiversity Changes in Northern Uganda”
Semra Ozdemir, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
“The Value of Social Investments: Disentangling Preferences for Outcomes and Processes”
Yun Wu, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
“Assessing Forest Sustainability in the Presence of Bioenergy Policies”
Friday Research Sketches
A. Nam Tran, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
“Impact of the Water Supply Watershed Protection Act (WSWP) on Property Values in North Carolina”
John Cary, Entrix Inc., Raleigh, NC, USA
“Mitigating the Cost of Thin Markets: Wetland Mitigation Banking and North Carolina’s Ecosystem Enhancement Program”
Jonathan Lee, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
“A Quasi-Experimental Approach to Estimating the Value of Reducing Risk”