W1133: Benefits and Costs of Natural Resources Policies Affecting Public and Private Lands

(Multistate Research Project)

Status: Inactive/Terminating

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Date of Annual Report: 03/14/2003

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 02/24/2003 - 02/25/2003
Period the Report Covers: 03/01/2002 - 02/01/2003

Participants

Shonkwiler, Scott, U. of Nevada-Reno; McLeod, Don, U. of Wyoming; Shultz, Steve, North Dakota State U.; Loomis, John, Colorado State U.; Herriges, Joe, Iowa State U.; Kerkvliet, Joe, Oregon State U.; Sohngen, Brent, Ohio State U.; Ready, Richard, Penn State U.; Wandschneider, Phil, Washington State U.; Poe, Greg, Cornell U.; Lindsay, Bruce, U. of New Hampshire; Fletcher, Jerry, West Virginia U.; Rosenberger, Randy, West Virginia U.; Bell, Enoch, U.S. Forest Service (Adminsitrative Advisor); Moeltner, Klaus, U. of Nevada; Lupi, Frank, Michigan State U.; Hearne, Robert, North Dakota State U.; Phaneuf, Dan, North Carolina State; Wheeler, William, EPA; Ekstrand, Earl, Bureau of Reclamation; Hansen, LeRoy, ERS; Riddel, Mary, UNLV; Hellerstein, Daniel, ERS; Farmer, Michael, Georgia Tech; Egan, Kevin, Iowa State U.; Kritzberg, David, U. of Colorado; von Haefen, Roger, U. of Arizona; Layton, David, U. of Washington; Boxall, Peter, U. of Alberta; Nalle, Darek, U. of Nevada; Rollins, Kim, U. of Nevada; Ker, Alan, U. of Arizona; Englin, Jeff, U. of Nevada; Burkey, Jake, U. of Nevada; Hunt, Fen, CSREES; Dennis, Don, Forest Service; Hoehn, John, Michigan State U.; Fleming, Ron,U. of Kentucky; Langner, Linda, Forest Service; Barry, Kim, NOAH; Poor, Joan; Lazo, Jeff, Stratus; Kaplowitz, Michael, Michigan State U.; Taylor, Michael, Ohio State U.

Brief Summary of Minutes

Presentations during the general meeting included reports on

Valuation in Theory and Practice. Dan Phaneuf, moderator

"Nonlinearity in Valuation" Donald Dennis, Forest Service(30); "EPA‘s Grants Program for Valuation Research" William Wheeler, EPA(30)

Different Approaches to Valuation. John Hoehn, moderator

"Valuing Water Quality in Midwestern Lake Ecosystems: Temporal Stability and the Role of Information in Value Formation" Joseph Herriges, Iowa State University (15); "Valuing Endangered Species: What‘s in a Name?" Earl Ekstrand, Bureau of Reclamation(15); Reducing Uncertainty for Resource Attributes that Vary over Time and Space: The Marginal Value of Weather Forecast Information" Klaus Moeltner, University of Nevada(15); "Modeling Environmental Benefits as a Function of Capital Investments" LeRoy Hansen, ERS(30);

Health, Wealth and Policy Mechanisms. Paul Jakus, moderator

"Performance Based Agricultural Pollution Abatement: Contracts and Evidence from Focus Groups" Brent Sohngen and Mike Taylor, Ohio State University(30); "Altruism and Willingness to Pay for a Public Good in a Coercive Tax (Referendum) Setting" Gregory L. Poe, Cornell University(15); "Option Wealth and Bequest Values: The Value of Protecting Future Generations from the Health Risks of Nuclear Waste Storage" Mary Riddel, UNLV(30); "Economic Valuation of Mortality Risk Reduction: A Stated Preference Approach" Jeffrey Lazo, Stratus Consulting(15);

Agricultural Lands and Spatial Models. Don McLeod, moderator

"The Amenity (and Disamenity) Value of Open Space" Richard Ready, Penn State University(30); "Visiting Farms for Fun: Using NSRE Data to Measure Participation Rates and Reasons for Taking a Trip" Daniel Hellerstein, ERS(15); "Growth Equilibrium Modeling of Urban Sprawl on Agricultural Land in West Virginia" Randall Rosenberger, West Virginia University(15); "Endogenous Neighborhood Sorting for Hedonic Estimation: Beyond School District and Census Tract Defaults" Michael Farmer, Georgia Tech(15);

Recreation Demand. Klaus Moeltner, moderator

"A Mixed Poisson Regression Model Using Individual Panel Data from an Onsite Sample" Kevin Egan, Iowa State University(15); "Modeling Intertemporal Elasticity in Recreation Demand" David Kritzberg, University of Colorado(15); "A Conceptual Exploration of Modeling the Demand For Location Recreation" Daniel Phaneuf, North Carolina State University(15); "Incomplete Demand Systems, Corner Solutions, and Welfare Measurement" Roger von Haefen, University of Arizona(25). David Layton, University of Washington, discussant(5);

Aspects of Forest Management. John Loomis, moderator

"Fly-In Anglers‘ Valuation of Forest Management: An Analysis of Ontario Remote Tourism" Peter Boxall, University of Alberta(25). Paul Jakus, Utah State University, discussant(5); Fixed-Site and Non-Fixed-Site Approaches for Species Protection: A Case Study for Comparison and Dialogue" Darek Nalle, University of Nevada(15); "Measuring Costs of Sequestering Carbon in Forest Stands with Different Management Regimes in Western Oregon" Joe Kerkvliet, Oregon State University(30);

The Analysis of Conservation Programs. Joe Herriges, moderator

"The Implicit Price of Wetland Easements in North Dakota" Steve Shultz, North Dakota State University(15); "Experimental Designs for Stated Choice Models: Wetland Mitigation Projects" Frank Lupi, Michigan State University(30); "Voluntary Conservation Programs: Comparing Multivariate Tobit and Beta-Binomial Models for Landowners‘ Willingness-to-Participate" David Layton, University of Washington(15);

Validation and Measurement Issues. Kim Rollins, moderator

"External Validation of Contingent Visitation Behavior: Results from a Comparison of Time Series Data and Surveys for Rocky Mountain National Park" John Loomis, Colorado State University(15); "An Analysis of Response Strategies in Double Referendum Mechanisms" Kate Carson, Air Force Academy(15); "Nonparametric Estimation of Willingness to Pay" Alan Ker, University of Arizona(15)

During the business meeting the new officers were approved Chair-Don McLeod, Vice-chair-Steve Schultz, Sec.- Randy Rosenberger), new members welcomed (N.Dakota, Wash.SU, Ohio SU, Mich.SU, U.NH,), candidates for the new administrative advisor discussed (Jacobs, Johnson, Quigley), and next meeting in Hawaii approved.

Accomplishments

Members of W1133 publish in high quality, widely read outlets, are involved in extension programs, and interact with policy makers at the local, state, national and international levels. Many of the published studies produced by W-133 participants have become the core literature in areas such as non-market valuation, benefits transfer, and ecosystem management. This year‘s accomplishments reflect the timeliness and importance of the project‘s activities in terms of dealing with issues such as recreational access, water quality, forest management, biodiversity and climate change. See publications for detailed accomplishments.

Publications

Schlosser,W. E., J.H. Bassman, P.R. Wandschneider, and R.L. Everett. A Carbon Balance Assessment for Containerized Larix gmelinii Seedlings in the Russian Far East. J. of Forest Ecology and Management. 173 (Feb 2003): 335-351. Schlosser,* W. E., J.H. Bassman,* F.G. Wagner, and P.R. Wandschneider. Increasing Long Term Storage of Carbon Sequestered in Russian Softwood Logs through Enhanced Lumber Recovery. Forest Products Journal 52:9(September 2002): 51-59. Painter,* K., R. D. Scott,* P.R. Wandschneider,* and K. L. Casavant. Using Contingent Valuation to Measure User and Non-User Benefits, An Application to Public Transit. Review of Agricultural Economics 24(2002): 394-409. Upadhayay,* B.M., D.L. Young,* H.H. Wang, and P.R. Wandschneider. "How Do Farmers Who Adopt Multiple Conservation Practices Differ from Their Neighbors?" American Journal of Alternative Agriculture (Vol. 18, Issue 1) (2003), in press. Coupal, R. H., C. T. Bastian and D. T. Taylor. "Economic Benefits of Sport Fishing and Angler Wildlife Watching in Pennsylvania: A Comment," Journal of Travel Research. 41(2002): 210-11. Bastian, C. T., D. M. McLeod*, M. J. Germino, W. A. Reiners and B. J. Blasko. "Using GIS to Measure Environmental and Visual Amenities When Valuing Agricultural Lands." Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. 2002: 43-52. Parkhurst, G. M., J. F. Shogren, C. Bastian, P. Kivi, J. Donner and R. B. Smith. "Agglomeration Bonus an Incentive Mechanism to Reunite Fragmented Habitat for Biodiversity Conservation," Ecological Economics. 41(2002): 305-328. Jensen, Kimberly L., Paul M. Jakus, Burton C. English, and Jamey Menard. Forthcoming. "Market Participation and Willingness to Pay for Environmentally Certified Hardwood Products." Forest Science. Accepted, October 2002. Jakus, Paul M., Kimberly L. Jensen, and George C. Davis.. "Revenue Impacts of MPP Branded Funds: A Firm Level Analysis." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. October 2003. Stevens, T.H., White, S., Kittredge,D., Dennis,D. 2002. "Factors affecting NIPF landowner participation in management programs: a Massachusetts case study." Journal of Forest Economics. 8: 160-184. Lindner, M., B. Sohngen, L.A. Joyce, D.T. Price, P.Y. Bernier, and T. Karjalainen. 2002. "Integrated Forestry Assessments for Climate Change Impacts." Forest Ecology and Management.162(1): 117-13 Rosenberger, Randall S., George L. Peterson, and John B. Loomis. 2002. Applying a method of paired comparisons to measure economic values for multiple goods sets. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 34(1):215-229. Rosenberger, Randall S., George L. Peterson, Andrea Clarke, and Thomas C. Brown. 2003. Measuring dispositions for lexicographic preferences of environmental goods: Integrating economics, psychology and ethics. Ecological Economics 44(1):63-76. Moeltner, K. (2003) Addressing Aggregation Bias in Zonal Recreation Models. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 45(1), p.128-144. Kirkvliet, J., O. Gainutdinova, S. Polasky and C. Vossler,. 2002. "Externally Validating Contingent Valuation: An Open-Space Survey and Referendum in Corvallis, Oregon, J. of Economic Behavior and Organization," Vol 1485 (2002) pp 1-17. Kirkvliet, J., C. Nowell and S. Lowe. 2002. "The Economic Value of the Greater Yellowstone‘s Blue Ribbon Fishery, North American Journal of Fisheries Management,", with, Vol. 22 (2002) 418-424 Amigues, J-P., C Boulatoff (Broadhead), B. Desaigues, C. Gauthier, and J.E. Keith. 2002. The benefits and costs of riparian habitat preservation: A willingness to accept/willingness to pay contingent valuation approach. Ecological Economics 43(1):17-31. Shultz, S. and J. Leitch. 2003. The feasibility of restoring previously drained wetlands to reduce flood damage. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, January-February, 2003. F. Lupi, M.D. Kaplowitz, and J.P. Hoehn. 2002. "The Economic Equivalency of Drained and Restored Wetlands in Michigan," American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 84(5):1355-1361. P.J. Machemer and M.D. Kaplowitz. 2002. "Using Transferable Development Rights to Address Urban Growth and Agricultural Land Preservation." Journal of Environmental Planning & Management. 45(6):773-795. M.D. Kaplowitz and S.G. Witter. 2002. "Identifying Water Security Issues at the Local Level." Water International. 27(3):387-394. D. Dempsey and M.D. Kaplowitz. 2002. "The Persistence of Local Wetland Ordinances in Michigan." Michigan Environmental Law Review. 19:18-23 Lupi, Frank, and Douglas B. Jester, "Uses of Resource Economics in Managing Great Lakes Fisheries," in Sustaining North American Salmon: Perspectives Across Regions and Disciplines, (W. Taylor, M. Jones, and K. Lynch, editors). American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD, pages 195-220, 2002. Hoag, D., J. Ascough, and A. Engler. 2002. Impact matrix and decision rules to enhance index dimensionality, flexibility and representation. Ecological Indicators, Vol. 33: 1-8. Hsu, S. and J. Loomis. 2002. A Defense of Cost-Benefit Analysis for Natural Resource Policy. Environmental Law Reporter 32:10239-10244. Loomis, J., L. Bair and A. Gonzalez-Caban. 2002. Language Related Differences in Contingent Valuation. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84(4): 1091-1102. Loomis, J., D. Griffin, E. Wu, A. Gonzalez-Caban. 2002. Estimating the Economic Value of Big Game Habitat Production from Prescribed Fire Using a Time Series Approach. Journal of Forest Economics 8:119-129. Popp, J. D. Hoag, and J.Ascough. 2002 Targeting Soil Conservation Policies for Sustainability: New Empirical Evidence. J. of Soil and Water Conservation, Vol. 57:66-74 Poe, G. L., and C. A. Vossler. "Monte Carlo Benchmarks for Discrete Response Valuation Methods: Comment", Land Economics, 78(4):605-616. Nov. 2002. Cameron, T. A., G. L. Poe, R. Ethier, and W. D. Schulze, "Alternative Nonmarket Value-Elicitation Methods: Are the Underlying Preferences the Same?", Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 44(3):391-425, Oct. 2002. Poe, G. L., J. R. Clark, D. Rondeau, and W.D. Schulze, "Provision Point Mechanisms and Field Validity Tests of Contingent Valuation", Environmental and Resource Economics, 23(1):105-131, Sept. 2002. Schulze, W., G. Poe, I. Bateman and D. Rondeau. " Is the Scope Test Meaningful In the Presence of Other Regarding Behavior?" in J.A. List and A. de Zeeuw, eds., 2002, Recent Advances in Environmental Economics., Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham UK. Herriges, J. and D. Phaneuf. 2002. "Inducing Patterns Correlation and Substitution in Repeated Logit Model of Recreation Demand," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 84, No. 4, 2002 pp. 1076-1090. Smith, V.K. G. Van Houtven and S.K. Pattan. 2003. Benefit Transfer Via Preference Calibration: Prudential Algebra for Policy, Land Economics, February 2002. Smith, V.K. and S. Pattanayak. 2002. Is Meta Analysis the Noahs Ark for Non-Market Valuation? Environmental and Resource Economics, June 200. Smith, V.K, H. Sieg, H.S. Banzhaf, and R. Walsh. 2002. "Inter-jurisdictional Housing Prices in Locational Equilibrium," Journal of Urban Economics, July 2002 Smith, V.K and C. Mansfield. 2002. "Tradeoff at the Trough: TMDLs and the Evolving Status of Water Quality Policy in John List and Aart de Zeeuw, editors, Recent Advances in Environmental Economics (Cheltenhen, U.K.: Elgar, 2002 Smith, V.K et al., 2002. The Impact of No Opinion Response Options on Data Quality: Non Attitude Reduction of an Invitation to Satisfice? Public Opinion Quarterly, Fall 2002 . Smith, V.K and Ju-Chin Huang Monte Carlo Benchmarks for Discrete Response Valuation Models: Reply, Land Economics, November 2002. Kim, Chongwon, Tim Phipps, and Luc Anselin. "Measuring the Benefits of Air Quality Improvement: A Spatial Hedonic Approach," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 45 (2003): 24-39.

Impact Statements

Estimate the economic benefits of ecosystem management of forests.
Estimate the economic value of changing recreational access.
Calculate the benefits and costs of agro-environmental policies.
Estimate the economic values of agricultural land preservation.

Date of Annual Report: 02/28/2004

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 02/25/2004 - 02/28/2004
Period the Report Covers: 01/01/2003 - 12/01/2003

Participants

Don McLeod, dmcleod@uwyo.edu, U. Wyoming;
John Hoehn, hoehn@msu.edu, Mich St. U.;
John Loomis, jloomis@lamar.csu.edu, CSU;
Jim Paluch, JimO@uri.edu, URI;
Fen Hunt, fhunt@csrees.usda.gov, CSREES/USDA;
Earl Ekstrand, eekstrand@do.usbr.gov, USBOR;
Kristy Wallmo, kristy.wallmo@noaa.gov, NOAA Fisheries;
Robert Johnston, rjohnston@canr.uconn.edu, U Conn;
Joan Poor, pjpoor@smcm.edu, St.Mary's College, MD;
Klaus Moeltner, moeltner@cabnr.unr.edu, U Nev Reno;
JS Shonkwiler, jss@unr.edu, U Nev Reno;
Kim Rollins, Krollins@cabnr.unr.edu, U Nev Reno;
Don Snyder, don.snyder@usu.edu, USU;
Roger von Haefen, rogervh@ag.arizona.edu, U Az;
Frank Lupi, lupi@msu.edu, Mich St U.;
Steve Shultz, Steve.shultz@ndsu.nodak.edu, NDSU;
Noelwah Netusil, netusil@reed.edu, Reed College;
Paul Jakus, pjakus@econ.usu.edu, USU;
Michael Farmer, Michael.farmer@pst.gatech.edu, GA Tech;
Phil Wandschneider, pwandschneider@wsu.edu, WA St U;
Ron Fleming, rfleming@uky.edu, U Kentucky;
Jen Keeling, keeling@primal.ucdavis.edu, UC Davis;
Jeff Englin, Englin@unr.edu, U Nev Reno; and
Jeff Dorfman, jdorfman@agecon.uga.edu, UGG

Brief Summary of Minutes

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Accomplishments

W-1133 has been very successful in bringing together a wide variety of scientists across the U.S. to examine issues related to environmental issues. The group has also been very effective in publishing in various outlets. They held a successful meeting in Hawaii in conjunction with the Western Regional Science Association in February of 2004. Various means of estimating values of environmental resources has been extensively written about.

Publications

Azevedo, Christopher, Joseph Herriges and Catherine Kling. "Combining Revealed and Stated Preferences: Consistency Tests and Their Interpretations," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85(2003): 525-537. Bateman, I. J., M. Cole, P. Cooper, S. Georgiou, D. Hadley, and G. L. Poe. 2004. "On Visible Choice Sets and Scope Sensitivity", Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 47(1):71-93. Bateman, I. J., P. Cooper, S. Georgiou, S. Navrud, G. L. Poe, R. Ready, P. Riera, M. Ryan, and C. A. Vossler, "Scope Sensitivity Tests For Preference Robustness: An Empirical Examination Of Economic Expectations Regarding The Economic Valuation Of Policies For Reducing Acidity In Remote Mountain Lakes". University of East Anglia, CSERGE Environmental Decision-Making (EDM) series, EDM 04-03. Bergstrom, J.C., I.D. Clifton, and Y.M. Mohamed. Estimates of Mean Per Acre Sales Price of Agricultural Land in the State of Georgia, Annual Report, Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development, The University of Georgia, August, 2003. Bergstrom, J.C., J.H. Dorfman, and J.B. Loomis. Estuary Management and Recreational Fishing Benefits. Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, The University of Georgia, Faculty Series, FS 03-02, July, 2003. Betz, C.J., J.C. Bergstrom, and J.M. Bowker. 2003. A Contingent Trip Model for Estimating Rail-Trail Demand. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 46: 79-96. Bills, N. L., G. L. Poe, and P. Wright, 2003. "Using Voluntary Approaches to Reduce Environmental Damages: Evidence from a Survey of New York Dairy Farms." Japanese Journal of Rural Economics 5:35-50. Bond, C. A., K. Giraud, and D. M. Larson. Valuation of Public Goods with Temporal Variation in Payment Schedules. Working Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, June 2003. Bunch, D. S., D. M. Larson, and Y. Onozaka. Purchase Pattern Analysis for Organic and Conventional Produce with Detailed Supermarket Scanner Data. Working Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, February 2004. Carson, R.M., and J.C. Bergstrom. A Review of Ecosystem Valuation Techniques. Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, The University of Georgia, Faculty Series, FS 03-03, December, 2003. Coupal, R., D. Taylor, and D. McLeod. 2003. "The Cost of Community Services for Rural Residential Development in Wyoming." Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources/Cooperative Extension Service Outreach Bulletin, University of Wyoming. Cowley, D., F. A. Ward, R. Deitner, and M. Hatch. 2003. "Optimizing the Allocation of Hatchery-Produced Rainbow Trout." North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23(February): 216-229. Deaton, B.J., P.E. Norris, J. P. Hoehn. 2003. Setting the Standard for Farmland Preservation. Agricultural And Resource Economics Review, 32(2): 272-281. Dennis, D., T. H. Stevens, and D. Kittredge. 2003. Nonlinearity in Valuation. In: Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (J.S. Schonkwiler, ed.), Western Regional Research Publication: 66-77. Dorfman, J. H., B Lavigno, J. C. Bergstrom, and B. J. Barnett. 2003. "Is There a Private Market for Farmland Preservation" in eds. N. De Cuir, A.D. Sokolow, and J. Woled, Compensating Landowners for Conserving Agricultural Land, Davis, CA: Community Studies Extension of UC Davis, 63-70. Ellinginson, L. 2003. The Role of Ethnicity and Language in Contingent Valuation Analysis: A Fire Prevention Policy Application. M.S. Thesis. Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Eom, Y. S., and D. M. Larson, Heterogeneity in Risk Perceptions, Self-Protective Decisions and Values of Health Risks from Waste Incinerators. Working Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, November 2003. Eom, Y. S., and D. M. Larson, Valuing Housework Time Through Giving and Volunteering for Environmental Quality Improvements. Working Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, December 2003. Eom, Y. S., and D. M. Larson. Improving Environmental Valuation Estimates Through Consistent Use of Multiple Information. Working Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, September 2003. Fisher, A. C., and U. Narain. 2003. "Global Warming, Endogenous Risk, and Irreversibility." Environmental and Resource Economics 25(4): 395-416. Grimsrud, K. M., P. R. Wandschneider, V. Lohr, and C. Pearson-Mims. 2003. Empirical Taxonomy of Environmental Ethical Archetypes. Selected Paper, American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 27-30, 2003. Haab, Timothy. 2003. Temporal Correlation in Repeated Discrete Choice Models with Limited Data. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45: 195-212. Hite, D., B. Sohngen, and J. Templeton. 2003. "Zoning, Development Timing, and Agricultural Land Use at the Suburban Fringe: A Competing Risks Approach." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 32(1): 145-157. Hoehn, J. P., F. Lupi, and M. Kaplowitz. 2003. Untying a Lancastrian Bundle: Ecosystem Valuation in Wetland Mitigation. Journal of Environmental Management 68(3): 263-272. Huang, J.-C., T. Haab, and J. Whitehead. 2004. Risk Valuation in the Presence of Risky Substitutes: An Application to the Demand for Seafood. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 36: 213-228. Hudson, D., L.-H. Seah, D. Hite, and T. Haab. 2004. Telephone Presurveys, Self-Selection and Non-Response Bias to Mail and Internet Surveys in Economic Research. Applied Economics Letters 11: 237-240. Jakus, P. M., M. Riddel, and W. D. Shaw. 2003. Are Climbers Fools? Modelling Risky Recreation. Chapter 5 in N.D. Hanley, W.D. Shaw, and R. Wright (eds.), The New Economics of Outdoor Recreation, Edward Elgar. Jensen, K. L., P. M. Jakus, B. C. English, and J. Menard. 2003. Market Participation and Willingness to Pay for Environmentally Certified Hardwood Products. Forest Science, 49(4):632-641. Kaplowitz, M. D., and J. Kerr. 2003. Michigan Residents Perceptions of Wetlands and Mitigation. Wetlands. 23(2):267-277. Kerkvliet, J., and C. Vossler. 2003. "A Nonexperimental Test of the Contingent Valuation Method: Comparing Hypothetical and Actual Voting Behavior." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45: 631-649. Kim, C., T. Phipps, and L. Anselin. 2003. Measuring the Benefits of Air Quality Improvement: A Spatial Hedonic Approach. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45: 24-39. Kurkalova, Lyubov, Jinhua Zhao, and Catherine Kling. Multiple Benefits of Carbon-Friendly Agricultural Practices: Empirical Assessment for Conservation Tillage in Iowa, Environmental Management (2003): on the web, forthcoming in paper copy. Larson, D. M., and D. K. Lew. Evidence on the Value of Recreational Travel Time from Trip Frequency Choices. Working Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, February 2004. Lew, D. K., and D. M. Larson. Jointly Estimating Recreational Choices and Leisure Time Values Using Information from Labor Market Choices. Working Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, November 2003. Lew, D. K., and D. M. Larson. Valuing Recreation and Amenities at San Diego County Beaches. Working Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, June 2003. Loomis, J., and M. Feldman. 2003. Estimating the Benefits of Maintaining Adequate Lake Levels to Homeowners Using the Hedonic Property Method. Water Resources Research 39(9): 2-1 to 2-6. Loomis, J. 2003. Estimating Economic Values of Open Space Preservation: A Comparison of Dichotomous and Trichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation and Transactions Evidence. Pages 73-96 in Pricing Environmental Services of Agriculture, Edited by M. Kissling, K. Schmitz, P. Schmitz T. Wronka, Justus-Liebig University. Verlag. ISBN 3-8175-0381-4. Loomis, J., P. Wohlgemuth, A. Gonzalzez-Caban, and D. English. 2003. Economic Benefits of Reducing Fire-Related Sediment in Southwestern fire-prone Ecosystems. Water Resources Research 39(9): 3-1to 3-8. Lucero, B. 2003. Criterion Validity Tests of the Contingent Valuation Method with Market/Non-Market Comparisons of Hypothetical Bias and Willingness to Pay Estimates Compared with Paired Comparison Estimates of Willingness to Accept. Ph.D. Thesis. Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Lupi, F., M. Kaplowitz, and J. Hoehn. 2003. Split-sample Comparison of Experimental Designs for Stated Choice Models with an Application to Wetland Mitigation. In: Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (J.S. Schonkwiler, ed.), Western Regional Research Publication. Marshall, A., D. Hoag, and A. Seidl. 2003. Landowner expectations and experiences with conservation easements, in Compensatory programs for conserving agricultural land. Agricultural Issues Center, University of California, Davis. McLeod, D., R. Coupal, A. Seidl, K. Inman, and D. Taylor. 2003. "Opportunities and Challenges for Land Use Planning in the Intermountain West." Journal of Extension 41(5): article 5. Murphy, J., P. G. Allen, T. H. Stevens, and D. Weatherhead. 2003. A Meta-Analysis of hypothetical bias in stated preference valuation. Working Paper 8, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. August. Murphy, J., T. Stevens, and D. Weatherhead. 2003. An empirical study of hypothetical bias in voluntary contribution contingent valuation: does cheap talk matter? Working Paper 2, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ma. October. Parsons, Jay. 2003. Productivity Variation and Group Optimization. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Pennington, S., M. D. Kaplowitz, and S. Witter. 2003. Re-Examining Structural Management Practices for Improving Water Quality in Urban Watersheds. Journal of American Water Resources Association 39(5): 1027-1041. Peters, P.M., L. Drake, A. Lang, R. Morrison, S. Llewellyn, and J.C. Bergstrom. Martin County, Florida Vacant Residential, Rural and Agricultural Lands Study: Abstract. Proceedings of the ESRI International Users Conference, San Diego, California, July, 2003. http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc03/abstracts/a0945.pdf) Peters, P.M., L. Drake, A. Lang, R. Morrison, S. Llewellyn, and J.C. Bergstrom. County Examines Changing Growth Patterns. Government Matters: GIS for State and Local Government. ESRI, Fall, 2003:2-3. Rahman, T., R. C. Mittelhammer, and P. Wandschneider. 2003. Comparing Quality of Life Indicators across Countries: A Sensitivity Analysis of Well-being Indices. Selected Paper, American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 27-30, 2003. Rahman, T., R. C. Mittelhammer, P. Wandschneider. 2003. Measuring the Quality of Life across Countries: A Sensitivity Analysis of Well-Being Indices, paper prepared for presentation at the WIDER International Conference on Inequality, Poverty and Human Well-Being Helsinki, May 30-31, 2003. Randall, Alan. 2003. Pricing the Outputs of Multifunctional Agriculture. Taiwanese Agricultural Economics Review 9(1):1-29. Randall, Alan. 2003. Pricing the Outputs of Multifunctional Agriculture. In: M. Kissling, K. Schmitz, P. Schmitz, and T. Wronka (eds.) Pricing the Environmental Services of Agriculture, Kiel, Germany: Wissenschaftsverlag Vauk Kiel KG, 1-20. Ready, R. C., and C. Abdalla. "The Impact of Open Space and Potential Local Disamenities on Residential Property Values in Berks County, Pennsylvania." Staff Paper #363, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University. June 2003. Ready, R. C., and C. Abdalla. "GIS Analysis of Land Use on the Rural-Urban Fringe: The Impact of Land Use and Potential Local Disamenities on Residential Property Values and on the Location of Residential Development in Berks County, Pennsylvania." Staff Paper #364, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University. June 2003. Rosenberger, R., and J. Loomis. 2003. Benefit Transfer. In A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, eds. P. Champ, K. Boyle and T. Brown. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 445-482. ISBN 0-7923-6498-8. Rosenberger, R.S., G.L. Peterson, A. Clarke and T.C. Brown. 2003. Dispositions for lexicographic preferences of environmental goods: Integrating economics, psychology and ethics. Ecological Economics 44(1): 63-76. Samnaliev, M., T. Stevens, and T. More. 2003. A comparison of cheap talk and alternative certainty calibration techniques in contingent valuation. Working Paper 11. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. December. Schlosser, W. E., J.H. Bassman, P.R. Wandschneider, and R.L. Everett. 2003. "A Carbon Balance Assessment for Containerized Larix gmelinii Seedlings in the Russian Far East." Journal of Forest Ecology and Management 173: 335-351. Shaikh, S. L. , and D. M. Larson. 2003. A Two-Constraint Almost Ideal Demand Model of Recreation and Donations. Review of Economics and Statistics 85(4): 953-61. Shrestha, R., and J. Loomis. 2003. Meta-Analytic Benefit Transfer of Outdoor Recreation Economic Values: Testing Out-of-Sample Convergent Validity. Environmental and Resource Economics 25:79-100. Shultz, S. and J. Leitch. 2003. The Feasibility of Restoring Previously Drained Wetlands to Reduce Flood Damage. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 58(1):21-29. Sohngen, B. and R. Mendelsohn. 2003. An Optimal Control Model of Forest Carbon Sequestration. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85(2): 448-457. Sutton, W. R., D. M. Larson, and L. S. Jarvis, A New Approach For Assessing The Costs Of Living With Wildlife In Developing Countries. Working Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, January 2004. Todres, T., A. Seidl, D. McLeod, A. Bittner, R. Coupal, and K. Inman. 2003. "Preferred Public Land Use and Policy in Moffat County: Final Report of A County-wide Opinion Survey" Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Cooperative Extension, Colorado State University. APR 03-11, http://dare.agsci.colostate.edu/extension/pubs.html. Upadhayay, B.M., D.L. Young, H.H. Wang, and P.R. Wandschneider. 2003. "How Do Farmers Who Adopt Multiple Conservation Practices Differ from Their Neighbors", American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 18(1): 27-36. von Haefen, R. H., and D. J. Phaneuf. 2003. Estimating Preferences for Outdoor Recreation: A Comparison of Continuous and Count Data Demand System Frameworks. Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 45(3): 612-630. von Haefen, R. H., and D. J. Phaneuf. 2003. A Note on Estimating Nested CES Preferences of Recreation Demand. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85(2): 406-413. von Haefen, R. H. 2003. Incorporating Observed Choice into the Construction of Welfare Measures from Random Utility Models. Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 45(2): 145-165. von Haefen, R. H. Incomplete Demand Systems, Corner Solutions, and Welfare Measurement, Working Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Arizona. von Haefen, R. H., and W. Adamowicz. Not Playing the Game: Non-Participation in Repeated Discrete Choice Models. Working Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Arizona. von Haefen, R. H. Latent Consideration Sets and Continuous Demand System Models. Working Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Arizona. Vossler, C. A., R. Ethier, G. L. Poe, and M. P. Welsh. 2003. "Payment Certainty in Discrete Choice Contingent Valuation Responses: Results from a Field Validity Test." Southern Economic Journal 69(4): 216-232. Wandschneider, Philip R. 2003. Lottery Economics: the Role of Luck, Skills and Endowments in Determining Who Gets the Toys, Western Economic Forum 2:2 (Fall 2003): 27-32. [Based on WAEA Distinguished Scholar Address, Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Denver, July, 2003] Ward, F.A., and J. Booker. 2003. Economic Costs and Benefits of Instream Flow Protection for Endangered Species in an International Basin. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 39(2): 427-440. Waters, J., and Q. Weninger. 2003. Economic benefits of management reform in the northern Gulf of Mexico reef fish fishery. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 46(2): 207-230. Whitehead, J., T. Haab, and G.Parsons. 2003. Economic Effects of Pfiesteria. Oceans and Coastal Management 46: 845-858. Xu, Z., Guodong, C., Ahiqiang, A., Shiyong, S. and J. Loomis. 2003. Applying Contingent Valuation in China to Measure Total Economic Value of Restoring Ecosystem Services in Ejina Region. Ecological Economics 44: 345-358.

Impact Statements

This multi-state research committee is the leading such group in the U.S. examining environmental values.
Over 100 articles in various outlets have been written by members of the W-192 research committee, much of that includes multiple authors from the committee.

Date of Annual Report: 05/22/2005

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 02/14/2005 - 02/15/2005
Period the Report Covers: 01/01/2005 - 12/01/2005

Participants

Name Institution E-Mail
Steve Shultz North Dakota State University sshultz@ndsu.nodak.edu
Richard Ready Pennsylvania State University rready@psu.edu
LeRoy Hansen USDA/ERS
Arthur Caplan Utah State acaplan@econ.usu.edu
Noelwah Netusil Reed College netusil@reed.edu
Michael Kaplowitz Michigan State University kaplowit@msu.edu
Frank Lupi Michigan State University lupi@msu.edu
Reed Johnson Research Triangle Institute frjohnson@rti.org
Semra Ozdemir Research Triangle Institute sozdemir@rti.org
Patty Champ US Forest Service/RMRS pchamp@fs.fed.us
David Harpman Bureau of Reclamation/DU dharpman@do.usbr.gov
Tom Stevens University of Mass. Amherst tstevens@resecon.umass.edu
Randy Rosenberger Oregon State University r.rosenberger@oregonstate.edu
Jerry Fletcher West Virginia University jfletch@wvu.edu
Paul Jakus Utah State University paul.jakus@usu.edu
Dan McCollum US Forest Service/RMRS dmccollum@fs.fed.us
Julie Suhr Nelson University of Utah, NRCS julie.nelson@ut.usda.gov
Fen Hunt USDA-CSREES fhunt@csrees.usda.gov
Don Snyder Utah State University don.snyder@usu.edu
Rina Brule St. Mary's College of Maryland rmbrule@smcm.edu
Joan Poor St. Mary's College of Maryland pjpoor@smcm.edu
Kelly Giraud University of New Hampshire kelly.giraud@unh.edu
Ayuna Borisova Ohio State University borisova.1@osu.edu
Klaus Moeltner University of Nevada moeltner@cabnr.unr.edu
David Layton University of Washington dflayton@u.washington.edu
Ron Fleming University of Kentucky rfleming@uky.edu
J.S. Shonkwiler University of Nevada jss@unr.edu
Krishna P. Paudel Louisiana State University kpaude1@lsu.edu
Diane Hite Auburn University hitedia@auburn.edu
Kevin Egan Iowa State University kegan@iastate.edu
Don Dennis Northeast Research Station dondennis@fs.fed.us
Tom Holmes Southern Research Station tholmes@fs.fed.us
Robert Johnston University of Conneticut robert.johnston@uconn.edu
Daniel Hellerstein USDA/ERS danielh@ers.usda.gov
John Loomis Colorado State University jloomis@lamar.colostate.edu
John Bergstrom University of Georgia jbergstrom@agecon.uga.edu
Chris Bastian University of Wyoming bastian@uwyo.edu
James Wasson University of Wyoming jamesw@uwyo.edu
Stephan Goetz Pennsylvania State University sgoetz@psu.edu
Jeffrey Englin University of Nevada englin@unr.edu
John Hoehn Michigan State University hoehn@msu.edu
John Duffield University of Montana coldmtn@montana.com
Joe Kerkvliet Oregon State University joe.kerkvliet@oregonstate.edu
Ed Morey University of Colorado edward.morey@colorado.edu
Therese Grijalva Weber State University tgrijalva@weber.edu

Brief Summary of Minutes

Executive Meeting Minutes

W-1133: Benefits and Costs of Natural Resources
Policies Affecting Public and Private Lands

2005 Annual Meetings
Little America Hotel (Arizona Room)
Salt Lake City, Utah
February 14 and 15, 2005

The 2005 executive meeting was called to order by President Klaus Moeltner at 4:41 PM (Mountain Standard Time), Monday, February 14, 2005. President Moeltner announced that the meetings for next year are tentatively scheduled to be held in San Antonio, Texas, Thursday and Friday February 23 and 24, 2006. Steve Shultz, Vice President, opened discussion concerning member versus non-member participation in the project. Currently, non-member friends are added to the internet list serve to receive information, but are not active participants in the executive duties of the project. Don Snyder, Director, took the floor to address new CSREES regulations regarding membership. Dr. Snyder reported that friends (or participants from non-land grant institutions) can submit an equivalent to Appendix E to become a member of the project. This change in the regulations opens membership in W-1133 to all interested individuals. However, individuals not part of the land grant system must have their application approved by an administrative supervisor or unit leader. A question was asked from the floor regarding the process for voting members into the project. Director Snyder reported that membership by ballet was no longer approved of by CSREES. All that is required for membership is Director Snyders signature on the applicants form. However, it was generally agreed that Dr. Snyder would seek the advice of the president and (or) executive board before granting approvals for membership.

Next the floor was turned over to Director Snyder and CSREES representative Fen Hunt. Director Snyder led off his discussion by noting that Land Grant institutions can be represented by multiple individuals including individuals who are not in Colleges of Agriculture. Individuals wanting to part of the project, but who are not faculty in the College of Agriculture, only need to seek approval of the Experiment Station Director and their unit leader. Director Snyder reported that the 3 year review of the project was generally positive. The review was conducted by the National Program Leaders of CSREES. Major criticism keyed on the perception that project members are not abiding by the objectives of the project. The perception is that the annual meeting of the project is a mini-economics paper session where there is no effort to engage in multi-state research. Essentially members of the project are viewed as engaging in independent research that has a dependency in terms of different people doing the same thing. As such, the current project does not meet the intent of multi-state research and we are not clear as to how it is that the project is addressing the stated objectives. In Director Snyders opinion the project stands no chance of being rechartered as things now stand. To be rechartered members of the project must: 1) engage in multi-institutional, multi-state, and/or multi-disciplinary research; 2) publish papers with multi-institutional, multi-state, and/or multi-disciplinary authorship; and 3) submit grants with multi-institutional, multi-state, and/or multi-disciplinary co-principal investigators. Director Snyders comments elicited comment from John Loomis that project members are doing multi-institutional, multi-state work, but project participants are doing a poor job of making this apparent to CSREES. Dr. Loomis suggested that the program of future annual meetings be designed to accentuate the objectives of the project. In response, Jeff England suggested that the current program be redesigned to address the issues raised by Director Snyder. In closing, Director Snyder noted that addressing the problems raised will require the involvement of other disciplines.

Next, Director Snyder reported that President Bushs proposed budget would cut Hatch funds 50% in 2006, and 100% in 2007. However, there is political pressure to maintain the status quo for Hatch funding. The point is that Hatch funds are in political jeopardy and may not be available in the future for travel and other regional project related expenses.

Fen Hunt, CSREES representative, took up the discussion concerning Hatch funding. Under the proposed budget Hatch funds will be redirected to competitive funds. With respect to the NRI, 20% of current year grant money is being directed toward integrated, research and extension projects (much like IFAFS). During the 2006 fiscal year, the amount of grant money directed toward integrated, research and extension projects will be increased to 30%. Like Hatch, Section 406 funds are also being redirected to the NRI. Other information related to NRI included the following: 1) Indirect costs are to be fully negotiated; 2) Social science fields are to be included as part of the genomics program area; and 3) That the NRI now includes the Coordinated Agriculture Projects (CAP) program. CAP grants are joint grants designed to foster multi-state and multi-disciplinary research in areas including animal waste management, bio-security, and invasive species. Representative Hunt expressed her thoughts that W-1133 researchers should be able to find funding within the CAP program. The official request for proposals for the NRI will be out in July and researchers interested in applying to the NRI can do so using the centralized Federal system at www.grants.gov. Next Representative Hunt passed out grant information from granting agencies outside of USDA/CSREES. CSREES has joined with NASA to fund projects on land use and land cover. Currently this funding is technology focused, but it is hoped that economics will be part of the funding next year. There is also funding related to invasive species. Finally, Representative Hunt discussed an upcoming OMB review of the Natural Resource Economics program area of CSREES. During the review Representative Hunt hopes to accomplish the following goals: 1) With the help of stakeholders, identify priority program areas; 2) Consider the changing nature of agriculture and identify immerging issues; 3) Explore program changes that will foster work by inter-disciplinary teams; 4) Explore program changes that will make economics an explicit focus in requests for applications; and 5) Explore program changes that will guarantee inclusion of the social scientist on peer-review panels.

Next, the floor was opened to new business. Vice President Shultz opened discussion related to the proceedings of the W-1133. Central issues of discussion related to how the proceedings were to be posted, low submission rates by program presenters, and free-riders. It was decided that the proceedings were hence forth to be referred to as an interim report. Jeff England suggested, and it was generally agreed, that the interim report only contain presentation papers that specifically relate to the objectives of the project. It was also generally agreed that the interim report would be made available on the NIMS website, that the interim report would no longer be distributed in printed form, and that the interim report, instead, be issued for general distribution on CD. Following tradition, it is the Vice Presidents responsibility to create and distribute the CDs. Next Vice President Shultz discussed the procedures for selecting papers for presentation at the annual meetings. After much discussion the following order was generally agreed upon. Highest priority will go to those papers that best fit the objectives of the project. Hence forth, authors submitting presentation proposals will have to identify the objective that best fits the content of the presentation. Next priority will be given to presentations with multi-state authorship, followed by presentations by project members. Lastly, the floor was opened to nominations for service on the executive committee. Traditionally, the serving Vice President becomes the President, the serving Secretary/Treasurer becomes the Vice President, and nominations are made for the office of Secretary/Treasurer. However, it was noted that next years Vice President (Ron Fleming, University of Kentucky) will be responsible for drafting the rechartering documents for the project. This led to discussion related to the need for the Vice President to be from one of the western schools (because this is a western regional project). After much discussion it was generally agreed that Dr. Shultz would move to the office of President as usual, Dr. Fleming would serve a second term as Secretary/Treasurer, and that Dr. Randy Rosenburger, Oregon State University, would assume the office of Vice President. However, Dr. Rosenburgers appointment is conditional upon his being able to receive an Experiment station appointment from OSU and him becoming a member of W-1133. A motion was made to approve the agreed upon slate of officers, seconded, and carried. A motion was made to adjourn the meeting. This motion was seconded and carried. The meeting was adjourned 6:44 PM Mountain Standard Time.

Respectfully submitted,

Ronald A. Fleming
Secretary/Treasurer, W-1133

Accomplishments

One of the major areas of accomplishment has been that of valuing changes in recreation access. Examples of work in this area include: rock climbers, recreation quality, revealed preferences recreation demand models, and stated preference models. Progress has been made in evaluating policies such as the Coservation Reserve Program on farm prices, levels of agricultural chemical use on water quality, incorporation of GIS systems with water pollution, value of open space, regulatory takings, etc. Progress has been substantial in the area of "valuing ecosystem management of forest and watersheds." Work has included the effects of wildfires, effects of prescribed fires on hikers and mountain bikers, etc. Biological sciences have progressed to the point that additional economic research is being undertaken.

Publications

Adamowicz, W., W.M. Hanemann, J. Swait, R. Johnson, D. Layton, M. Regenwetter, T. Reimer, and R. Sorkin. 2005. Group Decisions: Analyzing Decision Strategy and Structure in Households. Marketing Letters. In press 2005. Bastian, C. 2004. Using Random Utility Models to Incorporate Substitution When Estimating Economic Values and Impacts of Closing a Unique Recreation Site. Ph.D. Thesis. Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Bateman, I. J., M. Cole, P. Cooper, S. Georgiou, D. Hadley, and G. L. Poe. 2004. On Visible Choice Sets and Scope Sensitivity. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 47(1):71-93. Bazen, Ernest F. and Ronald A. Fleming, "An Economic Evaluation of Livestock Odor Regulation Distances," Journal of Environmental Quality. 33(November-December, 2004):1997-2001. Cooper, P., G. L. Poe and I. J. Bateman. 2004. The Structure of Motivation for Contingent Values: A Case Study of Lake Water Quality Improvement. Ecological Economics. 50(1-2):69-82. Deaton, B.J. and J.P. Hoehn. 2004. Hedonic Analysis of Hazardous Waste Sites in the Presence of Other Urban Disamenties. Environmental Science and Policy. 7:499-508. Fisher, A.C. and J. Zhao. 2004. Willingness-to-Pay, Compensating Variation, and the Cost of Commitment. Economic Inquiry. 42:503-517. Fisher, A.C., D. Phaneuf, and J. Herriges. 2004. What's the Use: Welfare Estimates from Revealed Preference Models in the Absence of Weak Complementarity. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 47:53-68. Fleming, R.A., 2004. An Econometric Analysis Of The Environmental Benefits Provided By The Conservation Reserve Program. Journal of Agriculture & Applied Economics. 36(August):399-413. Fleming, R.A., and M. Thomas. 2004. Analyzing Opportunities Presented By The Revised Federal Provisions Governing Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. Journal of Agriculture & Applied Economics. 36(August):313-316.Forestry Objective. Habron, G.B., M.D. Kaplowitz, and R. Levine. 2004. A Soft Systems Approach to Watershed Management: A Road Salt Case Study. Environmental Management. 33(6):776 -787. Hagerty, D., K. Moeltner. 2005. Specification of Driving Costs in Models of Recreation Demand. Land Economics. 81(Feb.):127-1. Hailu, Y.G. and R.S. Rosenberger. 2004. Modeling Migration Effects on Agricultural Lands: A Growth Equilibrium Model. Agricultural and Resource Economic Review. 33:50-60. (Affiliations: West Virginia U. and Oregon State U.) Hanemann W.M. 2005. The Value of Water. M.R. Llamas and Peter Rogers (eds). Water Crisis: Myth or Reality? A.A. Balkema Publishers. In press. Hanemann, W.M. 2005. Consumer Demand with Several Linear Constraints: A Global Analysis. Thomas Aronsson and Runar Brannlund (eds). Contributions in Environmental Economics. Honour of Karl-Gustaf Lofgren, Edward Elgar. In press. Hayhoe, K., D. Cayan, C.B. Field, P.C. Frumhoff, E.P. Maurer, N.L. Miller, S.C. Moser, S.H. Schneider, K.N. Cahill, E.E. Cleland, L. Dale, R. Drapek, W.M. Hanemann, L.S. Kalkstein, J. Lenihan, C.K. Lunch, R. Neilson, S.C. Sheridan, and J.H. Verville. 2004. Emission Pathways, Climate Change, and Impacts on California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 101, No. 34 (August 24) pp 12422-12427. Hesseln, H (Montana)., J. Loomis (Colorado), and A. Gonzalez-Caban (USDA Forest Service, California). 2004. Comparing the Economic Effects of Fire on Hiking Demand in Montana and Colorado. Journal of Forest Economics. 10: 21-35. Forestry Objective. Jakus, P.M. and C.D. Leggett. 2004. The Value of Information Provided by Fish Consumption Advisories. Utah State University Dept. of Economics, ERI 2005-03. November. Jakus, P.M. and D. Blahna. 2004. The Economic Value of Removing de facto Wilderness Designation on Public Land to Owners of All Terrain Vehicles. Utah State University Dept. of Economics, ERI 2005-04. April. Jensen, K.L., P.M. Jakus, B.C. English and J. Mewnard. 2004. Consumers Willingness to Pay for Eco-Certified Wood Products. J. Agricultural and Applied Economics, 36(3): 617-626. Kaplowitz, M.D. and F. Lupi. 2004. Color Photographs and Mail Survey Response Rates. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 16(2):199-206. Kaplowitz, M.D., F. Lupi, F. and J.P. Hoehn. 2004. Multiple-Methods for Developing and Evaluating a Stated Choice Survey to Value Wetlands. In Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaire, Eds. S. Pressor, J. M. Rothgeb, M.P. Couper, J.T. Lessler, E. Martin, J. Martin, and E. Singer. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons. Pages 503-524. Kaplowitz, M.D., T.D. Hadlock, T.D. and R. Levine. 2004. A Comparison of Web and Mail Survey Response Rates. Public Opinion Quarterly. 68(1):98-101. Klocek, Christopher A. 2004. Estimating the Economic Value of Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge: A Contingent Valuation Approach. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Natural Resource Economics Program, West Virginia University, August. Loomis, J (Colorado), A. Gonzalez-Caban (USDA Forest Service, California), and H. Hesseln (Montana). 2004. Multicultural Evaluation of the Performance of Contingent Valuation for Forest Fire Prevention. Contemporary Economic Policy. 22(3):407-419. Loomis, J. 2004. Do Nearby Forest Fires Cause a Reduction in Residential Property Values. Journal of Forest Economics 10:149-157. Loomis, J. (Colorado) and L. Caughlan (U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado). 2004. Linking Intended Visitation to Regional Economic Impact Models of Bison and Elk Management. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. 9:17-33. Loomis, J. 2004. How Bison and Elk Populations Impact Park Visitation: A Comparison of Results from a Survey and Historic Visitation Regression Model. Society and Natural Resources. 17:941-949. Loomis, J., V. Rameker, and A. Seidl. 2004. A Hedonic Model of Public Market Transactions for Open Space Protection. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 47(1): 83-96. Loureiro, M., J. Loomis, L. Nahuelhual. 2004. A Comparison Of A Parametric And Non-Parametric Method To Value A Non-Rejectable Public Good. Journal of Forest Economics. 10:61-74. McLeod, D. 2004. Confronting Land Fragmentation: Opportunities for Federal Research and Outreach Programming Partnerships. Western Economic Forum of the Western Agricultural Economics Association. 3(December):12-18. McLeod, D. 2005. A Proposed Research Agenda To Inform Future Farmland Preservation Efforts. Invited Paper/Published Proceedings 2005. What the Public Values about Farmland: A Workshop to Develop a Ranking Tool for Program Managers. USDA-ERS, Farm Foundation, and CSREES. Baltimore, MD. November 13-14, 2005. Mohn, C. and W.M. Hanemann. 2005. Caught in a Corner: Using the Kuhn-Tucker Conditions to Value Montana Sportfishing. Robert Halvorsen, David F. Layton and Richard W. Parks (eds). Festschrift for Gardner Brown, Edward Elgar. In press. Nahuelhual-Munoz, L., M. Loureiro, and J. Loomis. 2004. Addressing Heterogeneous Preferences Using Parametric Extended Spike Models. Environmental and Resource Economics. 27: 297-311. Peck, D., D. McLeod, J. Lovvorn and J. Hewlett. 2005. Opportunity Costs of Water Leasing: Irrigation, Instream Flow, And Wetland Considerations in the Laramie Basin, Wyoming. Environmental Management. 34(6): 842-855. Ready, R. C., and C.W. Abdalla. 2004. The Impact Of Land Use On Nearby Property Values: Estimates From A Hedonic Houseprice Model. In Goetz, S.J., J.S. Shortle and J.C. Bergstrom eds., Land Use Problems and Conflicts New York: Routledge.16 pp. Ready, R. C., S. Navrud, B. Day, R. Dubourg, F. Machado, S. Mourato, F. Spanninks, and M. Jose Vazquez Rodriquez. 2004. Contingent Valuation of Ill Health Caused by Pollution: Testing for Context and Ordering Effects. Portuguese Economic Journal. 3 (September):145-156. Ready, R. C., S. Navrud, B. Day, R. Dubourg, F. Machado, S. Mourato, F. Spanninks, and M. Jose Vazquez Rodriquez. 2004. Benefit Transfer in Europe: How Reliable are Transfers Between Countries? Environmental and Resource Economics. 29(September):67-82. Ready, R.C., and C.W. Abdalla. 2004. The Impact of Land Use on Nearby Property Values: Estimates From A Hedonic House Price Model. In Goetz, S.J., J.S. Shortle and J.C. Bergstrom eds., Land Use Problems and Conflicts New York: Routledge. 16 pp. Ready, R.C., S. Navrud, B. Day, R. Dubourg, F. Machado, S. Mourato, F. Spanninks, and M. Jose Vazquez Rodriquez. 2004. Contingent Valuation of Ill Health Caused by Pollution: Testing for Context and Ordering Effects. Portuguese Economic Journal 3(September):145-156. Ready, R.C., S. Navrud, B. Day, R. Dubourg, F. Machado, S. Mourato, F. Spanninks, and M. Jose Vazquez Rodriquez. 2004. Benefit Transfer in Europe: How Reliable are transfers Between Countries? Environmental and Resource Economics. 29(September):67-82 Richardson, R. and J. Loomis. 2004. Adaptive Recreation Planning and Climate Change: A Contingent Visitation Approach. Ecological Economics. 50: 83-99. Rosenberger, R.S. 2004. Perceived costs and benefits of SAHs: Economic and Social Values. In: Institute for Natural Resources, Salmon Anchor Habitat Strategy: Invited Expert Responses. Supporting document for the Salmon Anchor Habitat Conference, June 24-25, Tillamook, OR. Corvallis, OR: Institute for Natural Resources and Oregon Department of Forestry. (Affiliation: Oregon State U.) Rosenberger, R.S., A.R. Collins and J.B. Svetlik. 2005. Private Provision Of A Public Good: Willingness To Pay For Privately Stocked Trout. Society & Natural Resources 18(1):75-87. (Affiliations: Oregon State U. and West Virginia U.) Rosenberger, R.S., D.B.K. English and M. Sperow. 2004. Duration Models - Temporal Effects Of Wilderness Designation On Transition Rates For Economies In Appalachia. 4th Quarterly Report for the project: Impacts and Role of Wilderness Designation on Rural Communities in the Appalachian Region and National Wilderness Assessment. Cooperative Agreement #SRS-01-CA-11330144-397 between the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station and West Virginia University via subcontract #01-539-OSU between West Virginia University and Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR: Department of Forest Resources, Oregon State University. (Affiliations: Oregon State U., USDA Forest Service, and West Virginia U. Rosenberger, R.S., D.B.K. English and M. Sperow. 2004. Growth Equilibrium Modeling of Wilderness Effects in Appalachia. 3rd Quarterly Report for the project: Impacts and Role of Wilderness Designation on Rural Communities in the Appalachian Region and National Wilderness Assessment. Cooperative Agreement #SRS-01-CA-11330144-397 between the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station and West Virginia University via subcontract #01-539-OSU between West Virginia University and Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR: Department of Forest Resources, Oregon State University. (Affiliations: Oregon State U., USDA Forest Service, and West Virginia U.) Rosenberger, R.S., D.B.K. English and M. Sperow. 2004. Correlation Tests, T-tests, and Trend analysis. 2nd Quarterly Report for the project: Impacts and Role of Wilderness Designation on Rural Communities in the Appalachian Region and National Wilderness Assessment. Cooperative Agreement #SRS-01-CA-11330144-397 between the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station and West Virginia University via subcontract #01-539-OSU between West Virginia University and Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR: Department of Forest Resources, Oregon State University. (Affiliations: Oregon State U., USDA Forest Service, and West Virginia U.) Schlenker, W., W.M. Hanemann, and A.C. Fisher. 2005. Will U.S. Agriculture Really Benefit from Global Warming? Accounting for Irrigation in the Hedonic Approach. American Economic Review. In press. Sethi, G., C. Costello, A.C. Fisher, M.W. Hanemann, and L. Karp. 2005. Fishery Management under Multiple Uncertainty. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. In press. Shultz, S. and S. Taff. 2004. Implicit Prices of Wetland Easements in Areas of Production Agriculture. Land Economics. 80(4):501-512. Shultz. S. and S. Taff. 2004. Calculating wetland easement payments with alternative land value data: A case study of the USFW small wetland acquisition program in the prairie pothole region. Journal of Soil & Water Conservation. 59(3):103-109. Shultz. S. and S. Taff. 2004. Calculating Wetland Easement Payments with Alternative Land Value Data: A Case Study of the USFW Small Wetland Acquisition Program in the Prairie Pothole Region. Journal of Soil & Water Conservation. 59 (3):103-109. Strager, Michael P. 2004. The Integration of Spatial Analysis Techniques and Decision Support Systems for Natural Resource Management. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Natural Resource Economics Program, West Virginia University, May. Vossler, C. A., G. L. Poe, M. P. Welsh, and R. G. Ethier. 2004. Bid Design Effects Multiple Bounded Discrete Choice Approach, Environmental and Resource Economics. 29: 401-18. Waller, A., D. McLeod and D. Taylor. 2004. Conservation Opportunities for Securing In-Stream Flows in the Platte River Basin: A Case Study Drawing on Casper, Wyomings Municipal Water Strategy. Environmental Management. 34(5): 620-633. Winfree, Jason A. and Jill J. McCluskey. 2004. A Game Theoretic Approach to Property Development Policy," submitted to International Review of Law and Economics. Winfree, Jason A., Jill J. McCluskey, and Ron C. Mittelhammer. 2004. An Option Value Approach to Valuation of Conservation/Preservation Properties. submitted to J. of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

Impact Statements

Estimates of the impacts of landfills on nearby property values have assisted communities in locating solid waste disposal sites.
Improved economic analysis of natural and environmental policy have supported policy analysts in making decisions related to environmental policy.
Alternatives to higher fees for recreation on public lands, like donations and coporate sponsorship appear to be preferred by the general public.
Though setback distances are a common zoning device used to minimize the offsite impacts of a livestock operation and conflicts between farms and non-farm neighbors, typical setback distances still impose substantial costs on non-farm communities.
The use of alternative land value data for calculating Fish and Wildlife SErvice wetland easements payments in North Dakota will save the agency and taxpayers money.
Improved understanding of economic impacts of low water levels in Lake Sakakawea will enable the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to more optimally manage Missouri River water levels in coming years.
Research into the valuation of the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge provided justification for development of the Refuge.
Means have been provided by which agricultural lands may maintain water rights while addressing improvements in allocation and technical efficiency.

Date of Annual Report: 05/12/2006

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 02/23/2006 - 02/25/2006
Period the Report Covers: 06/01/2005 - 07/01/2006

Participants

We had 44 participants attend the annual meeting, including:

Name Affiliation
John Bergstrom University of Georgia
Ryan Bosworth University of Oregon
Tom Brown U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Daniel Burghart University of Oregon
Trudy Ann Cameron University of Oregon
Patty Champ U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Alison Davis University of Nevada, Reno
John Duffield University of Montana
Jeff Englin University of Nevada, Reno
Jerry Fletcher West Virginia University
Nicholas Flores University of Colorado
Kelly Giraud University of New Hampshire
Tim Haab Ohio State University
Michael Hand University of New Mexico
Michael Hanneman University of California, Berkeley
LeRoy Hansen USDA / ERS
Robert Hearne North Dakota State University
John Hoehn Michigan State University
Wuyang Hu University of Nevada, Reno
Fen Hunt CSREES / USDA
Paul Jakus Utah State University
Rutherford Johnson University of Kentucky
Robert Johnston University of Connecticut
Michael Kaplowitz Michigan State University
Hwa Nyeon Kim Texas A&M University
Linda Langner USDA Forest Service
John Loomis Colorado State University
Frank Lupi Michigan State University
Dan McCollum U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Donald McLeod University of Wyoming
Klaus Moeltner University of Nevada, Reno
Krishna Paudel Louisiana State University
Joan Poor St. Mary's College of Maryland
Richard Ready Pennsylvania State University
Kim Rollins University of Nevada, Reno
Randall Rosenberger Oregon State University
Douglass Shaw Texas A&M University
Steven Shultz University of Nebraska, Omaha
V. Kerry Smith North Carolina State University
Donald Snyder Utah State University
Laura Taylor Georgia State University
Jennifer Thacher University of New Mexico
Roger von Haefen NC State University
John Yoder Washington State University

Brief Summary of Minutes

Summary of Annual Meeting:
W-1133s annual meeting consisted of two partspresentation of current research and business meeting. Presentations of current research occurred in a conference-style format on 2/23/2006 and 2/24/2006. The presentations were organized by W1133 objective and paper content, with a mix of long papers with a discussant and short papers without a discussant. The presentation program provided time for discussion of each paper. An Expert Panel was organized on the theme W1133 A Synthesis of the Past and the Road Ahead and included presentations by John Bergstrom, John Loomis, John Hoehn and V. Kerry Smith. The program agenda was:

Wednesday, Feb. 22:
6:00 7:30 Reception / Social gathering, Presidential Suite, Riverwalk Plaza Hotel

Thursday, Feb. 23: ( *presenter)
7:30-8:00 Registration
8:00 8:10 Presidential Address and Welcome
8:10 10:10 Session 1: Choices and Policies under Uncertainty
Chair: Tom Brown
The Value of Information Provided by Fish Consumption Advisories
Paul Jakus*, Christopher Leggett, Ana Maria Ibanez. Discussant: Douglass Shaw
An Empirical Investigation of Option Prices for Hunting Permits
To N. Nguyen, W. Douglass Shaw*, Richard T. Woodward, Robert Paterson, Kevin Boyle Discussant: Tim Haab
Demands for Government-Sponsored Research with Long-term Uncertain Benefits but Near-Term Costs, Trudy Ann Cameron, Daniel R. Burghart*, Geoffrey R. Gerdes,
Discussant: Paul Jakus
10:10 10:30 Break with refreshments
10:30 12:30 Session 2: Elicitation and Econometric Issues in Non-market Valuation
Chair: Michael Kaplowitz
Do Fishermen Lie? Measuring Hypothetical Bias Across Response Formats
John W. Duffield*, Patricia A. Champ, David A. Patterson, Chris J. Neher Discussant: Laura Taylor
Respondent Uncertainty in Choice Experiments: A Comparison of Real and Hypothetical Choices, Richard Ready*, Jennifer Lawton, Patricia A. Champ
A New Approach to Correct for Hypothetical Bias in Stated Preference Models: The Orbit Procedure, John Loomis*, Steve Davies
Reconsidering the Statistical Gains from Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation with Follow-Up Questions, Heechan Kang, Timothy C. Haab* , Discussant: Kim Rollins
12: 30 2:00 Lunch (on your own)
2:00 3:30 Expert panel: W1133 A Synthesis of the Past and the Road Ahead
Chair / Moderator: Dan McCollum
John Bergstrom, John Hoehn, John Loomis, V. Kerry Smith (15 minutes per panelist, 30 minutes open discussion)
3:30 3:50 Break with refreshments
3:50 5:10 Session 3: Meta-Analysis, Benefit Transfer and Meta-Questions
Chair: Linda Langner
Generalization, Measurement, and Publication: Sources of Error in Benefit Transfer and their Management, Randall S. Rosenberger*, Tom D. Stanley, Discussant: Rob Johnston
Sampling Issues and Value Comparison in the Meta Analysis of Ecosystem Benefit Estimates John P. Hoehn*
What are Ecosystem Services? Thomas C. Brown*, John C. Bergstrom, John B. Loomis

Friday, Feb. 24
7:30-8:00 Registration
8:00 10:00 Session 4: Advances and Topics in Valuation Methodology / Chair: Michael Hand
Combining Attitudinal and Choice Data to Improve Estimates of Preferences and Preference Heterogeneity: A FIML, Discrete-Choice. Latent-Class Model, William Breffle, Edward Morey, Jennifer Thacher*, Discussant: Wuyang Hu
An Empirical Investigation of Consideration Set Models Roger von Haefen*, Wiktor Adamowicz, Matthew Massey
The Use of Attitudinal Responses as Explanatory Variables in Choice Experiments
Robert Hearne*
Should We be Despaired? A WTP/WTA Difference Among Broiler Producers in Louisiana Krishna P. Paudel*
Modeling consumers intended buying decision of GM food: A simultaneous latent variable approach integrating psychometric and econometric aspects of consumer decision-making Sanjoy Bhattacharjee, Phil Wandschneider, Jon Yoder*
10:00 10:30 Break with refreshments
10:30 12:30 Session 2: Welfare Implications of Agricultural and Environmental Policies
Chair: Robert Hearne
Estimating the Value of Water Use Permits: A Hedonic Approach Applied to Farmland in the Southeastern U.S., Ragan Petrie, Laura Taylor*, Discussant: Alison Davis
Welfare Implications of the Policy Process: Estimating Context-Sensitive Willingness to Pay for Agricultural and Open-Space Conservation, Robert J. Johnston*, Joshua M. Duke
Is an Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure? Ryan Bosworth, Trudy Ann Cameron*, J.R. DeShazo
Measuring the Economic Benefits of Conservation Efforts in a National Park
Patricia A. Champ*, George L. Peterson, Yann-Jou Lin
Benefit Variables Applied in USDA Agri-Environmental Policy Analyses, LeRoy Hansen*
12: 30 2:00 Lunch (on your own)
2:00 3:20 Session 6: Public Preferences for Open Land and Environmental Amenities
Chair: Joan Poor
Measuring Preferences for Stream Restoration under Uncertainty, Nicholas E. Flores*
Water Projects and Exurban Sprawl: WTP for Increased Water Charges as Derived Demand for Environmental Amenities, Donald M. McLeod*, Roger Coupal, Scott Lieske
The Availability and Geographical Specificity of Agricultural Land Value Data: Implications for Hedonic Studies, Steven Shultz*
Amenities, Wages, and the Use of Stated Preference Surveys Michael S. Hand*, Jeff Bjarke, Jennifer Thacher, Daniel McCollum
3:20 3:40 Break with refreshments
3:40 4:40 Session 7: Topics in Recreation Demand Analysis / Chair: Kelly Giraud
Distributional Consequences of Fees in a Discrete Choice Model of Recreation Demand with Incomplete Data: An Application to Mode-Specific Fishing Hwa Nyeon Kim*, Richard T. Woodward, W. Douglass Shaw, Wade L. Griffin
A Random Utility Travel Cost Model of Deer Hunting in Michigan Scott Knoche, Frank Lupi*, Brent Rudolph
Valuing Forest Fires: A Large Scale Approach
Jeffrey Englin*, Thomas Holmes, Janet Lutz ,Adam Longhorn and Juan Marcos Gonzalez
Willingness to Accept by Private Land Owners for Consumptive and Non-Consumptive Uses Ronald A. Fleming, Angelos Pagoulatos, Rutherford Johnson* and Roger Brown

Saturday, Feb. 25
8:00 noon Business meeting

Business Meeting Minutes/Agenda:
" Call to Order - The business meeting was called to order at 8am, Feb 25, 2006.
o Attendees of the business meeting included:
§ Jerry Fletcher, West Virginia University
§ Michael Hanneman, University of California, Berkeley
§ Paul Jakus, Utah State University
§ John Loomis, Colorado State University
§ Don McLeod, University of Wyoming
§ Klaus Moeltner, University of Nevada, Reno
§ Richard Ready, Penn State University
§ Kim Rollins, University of Nevada, Reno
§ Randy Rosenberger, Oregon State University (chair)
§ Douglass Shaw, Texas A&M University
§ Donald Snyder, Utah State University (administrative advisor)
" Nominations and Election of Secretary-Treasurer for 2006
o Dr. Kelly Giraud, University of New Hampshire was nominated and unanimously elected as Secretary-Treasurer

Accomplishments

W1133 members are widely recognized leaders in the field of environmental and natural resource economics. They collaborate with other scientists at international and national, public and private institutions and participate in extension programs. They interact with policy makers at local, state, national and international levels. They publish in high quality, widely read outletsmany of their publications have become core literature in the areas of nonmarket valuation, benefit transfer, and ecosystem management. This years accomplishments reflect the timeliness and importance of the projects activities in terms of dealing with policy/management issues including recreational access, water quality, forest management, biodiversity and climate change. See publications for detailed accomplishments.

Publications

Ahearn, M. and R. Alig. Forthcoming. A Discussion of Recent Land-Use Trends, chapter 2 in Economics of Rural Land-Use Change, edited by K.P. Bell, K.J. Boyle and J. Rubin, Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate. Ahearn, M., K. Boyle, and D. Hellerstein. Forthcoming. Designing a Contingent Valuation Study to Estimate the Benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program, chapter 9 in The Handbook of Contingent Valuation. , J. Kahn, and A. Alberini (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, MA. Alig, R. and M. Ahearn. Forthcoming. Effects of Policy and Technological Change on Land Use, chapter 3 in Economics of Rural Land-Use Change, edited by K.P. Bell, K.J. Boyle and J. Rubin, Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate. Bastian, C.T. and J.B. Loomis. 2005. Economic Welfare Effects of Recreation Site Closure on Multiple Destination Visitors Using Random Utility Model: The Case of Yellowstone Snowmobiling, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Bateman, I. J., P. Cooper, S. Georgiou, S. Navrud, G.L. Poe, R. Ready, P. Riera, M. Ryan, and C. A. Vossler. 2005. Economic Valuation of Policies for Managing Acidity in Remote Mountain Lakes: Examining Validity through Scope Sensitivity Testing. Aquatic Sciences 67:274-291. Belin D., D. Kittredge, T.Stevens, D. Dennis, C. Schweik and B. Morzuch. 2005. Assessing Private Forest Owner Attitudes toward Ecosystem-Based Management. Journal of Forestry. Jan/Feb. Bento, A.M., L.H. Goulder, E. Henry, M.R. Jacobson and R.H. von Haefen. 2005. Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Gasoline Taxes: An Econometrically-Based Multi-Market Study. American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 95(2): 282-287. Bergstrom, J. and L. Taylor. Forthcoming. Using Meta Analysis for Benefits Transfer: Strengths and Weaknesses. Ecological Economics. Bergstrom, J.C. and R.C. Ready. 2005. What Have We Learned from 20 Years of Farmland Amenity Valuation Research?, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Booker, J.F., A.M. Michelsen, and F.A. Ward. 2005. Economic impact of alternative policy responses to prolonged and severe drought in the Rio Grande Basin. Water Resources Research 41(2):W02026. Breffle, W.S., E.R. Morey, and D.M. Waldman. 2005. Gaussian Quadrature versus Simulation for the Estimation of Random Parameters: Some Evidence from Stated-Preference Choice Data. In Applications of Simulation Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics. R. Scarpa and A. Alberini, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. Breffle, W.S., E.R. Morey, R.D. Rowe, and D.M. Waldman. 2005. Combining Stated-Choice and Stated-Frequency Data with Observed Behavior to Value NRDA Compensable Damages: Green Bay, PCBs and Fish Consumption Advisories, in The Handbook of Contingent Valuation (D. Bjornstad, J. Kahn, and A. Alberini, eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing. In press. Brown, T.C. 2005. Loss Aversion without the Endowment Effect, and Other Explanations for the WTA-WTP Disparity. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 57(3):367-379. Brown, T.C., G.L. Peterson, R.M. Brodersen, V. Ford, and P.A. Bell. 2005. The Judged Seriousness of an Environmental Loss is a Matter of What Caused It. Journal of Environmental Psychology 25(1):13-21. Bruggeman, D, M. Jones, F. Lupi, and K. Scribner. 2005. Landscape Equivalency Analysis: Methodology for Estimating Spatially Explicit Biodiversity Credits. Environmental Management 36(4):518-534. Champ, P.A., R.C. Bishop and R. Moore. 2005. Approaches to Mitigating Hypothetical Bias, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Collins, A.R., R.S. Rosenberger and J.J. Fletcher. 2005. The Economic Value of Stream Restoration. Water Resources Research 41:W2017, 1-9. Deaton, B.J. and J.P. Hoehn 2005. The Social Construction of Production Externalities in Contemporary Agriculture: Process versus Product Standards as the Basis for Defining Organic. Agriculture and Human Values 22:21-38. Duffield, J.W., C.J. Neher, D.A. Patterson and P.A. Champ. 2005. Replication of a Cash and Contingent Valuation Experiment (Preliminary), in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Finlayson, C.M., R. DCruz, N. Aladin, D.R.Barker, G. Beltram, J.Brouwer, N. Davidson, L.Duker, W. Junk, M.D. Kaplowitz, H. Ketelaars, E. Kreuzberg-Mukhina, G. de la Lanza Espino, C.Leveque, A. Lopez, R.G. Milton, P.Mirabzadeh, D. Pritchard, C. Revenga, M. Rivera, A. Shah Hussainy, M. Silvius, and M.Steinkamp. 2005. Inland Water Systems, Chapter 20, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Current State and Trends. Washington DC: Center for Resource Economics/Island Press. Finnoff, D. and A.J. Caplan. 2005. A Bioeconomic Model of the Great Salt Lake Watershed, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Fleming, R.A. and R. Johnson. 2005. WTA for Consumptive and Non-Consumptive Use Access to Private Lands when Affirmative Responses are Poisson Events, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Giraud, K, C. Bond and J. Kelling-Bond. 2005. Consumer Preferences for Locally Made Specialty Food Products across Northern New England. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 34(2):204-216. Hearne, R. and C.A. Santos. 2005. Tourists and Locals Preferences toward Ecotourism Development in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala. Environment, Development, and Sustainability 7(3):305-318 Heberlein, T.A., M.W Wilson, R.C. Bishop and N. Schaeffer. 2005. Scope Sensitivity and the Validity of Contingent Valuation. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 50:1-22. Hoag, D., C. Bastian, C. Keske-Handley, D. McLeod and A. Marshall. 2005. Evolving Conservation Easements Markets in the West. Solicited Article, June 2005, Western Economic Forum of the Western Agricultural Economics Association. 4(1):12-18. Hoehn, J.P. and B.J. Deaton. 2005. An Empirical Framework for Evaluating the Welfare Gains and Losses from Credence Attribute Labeling, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Holmes, T.P. and J.E. Englin. 2005. User Fees and the Demand for OHV Recreation, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Horan, R. and F. Lupi. 2005. Tradable risk permits to prevent future introductions of alien invasive species into the Great Lakes. Ecological Economics 52(3):289-304. Horan, R., and F. Lupi. 2005. Economic Incentives for Controlling Trade-Related Biological Invasions in the Great Lakes. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 34(1):75-89. Johnston, R.J. and D.P. Joglekay. 2005. Is Hypothetical Bias Universal? Validating Stated Preference Responses Using Binding Public Referenda, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Kavezeri-Karuahe, S., P. Wandschneider, and J. Yoder. 2005. Perceived Water Prices and Estimated Water Demand in the Residential Sector of Windhoek, Namibia. An Analysis of the Different Water Market Segments. presented at the Western Agricultural Economics Association Meetings. San Francisco. July. Kruger, C., D. Granatstein, C. Feise, S. Chen, C. Stockle, C. MacConnell, P. Wandschneider, H. Collins, D. Huggins. Climate Friendly Farming Project: Year 1 Report Presentation. 2005. Presented to the Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundation / Vulcan Inc. February 11. Laury, S. and L. Taylor. Forthcoming. Altruism Spillovers: Are Behaviors in Context-free Experiments Predictive of Atlruism Toward a Naturally Occurring Public Good? Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Loomis, J. 2005. Economic Values without Prices: The Importance of Nonmarket Values and Valuation for Informing Public Policy Debates. Choices 20(3):179-182. Loomis, J. 2005. Updated Outdoor Recreation Use Values on National Forests and Other Public Lands. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-658. Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service. Loomis, J., H.T. Le, A. Gonzalez-Caban. 2005. Testing Transferability of Willingness to Pay for Forest Fire Prevention Among Three States of California, Florida and Montana. Journal of Forest Economics 11:125-140. Loomis, J., J. Miller, A. Gonzalez-Caban and J. Champ. 2005. Comparing Videotape Survey Administration and Phone Interviews in Contingent Valuation of Forest Fire Management, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Lupi, F, M.D. Kaplowitz, J.P. Hoehn, M. Gibson and O. Arreola. 2005. Stated Preferences for Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Programs, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. M.D. Kaplowitz and R. Levine. 2005. How Environmental Knowledge Measures up at a Big Ten University. Environmental Education Research 11(2):143-160. Maler, K-G, and A.C. Fisher. 2005. Environment, Uncertainty, and Option Values, in Handbook of Environmental Economics, Vol. 2, pp. 571-620, edited by K-G Maler and J.R. Vincent. Amsterdam: Elsevier/North Holland. Moeltner, K. and J. S. Shonkwiler. 2005. Correcting for On-Site Sampling in Random Utility Models. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87(2):327-339. Moeltner, K. and J.S. Shonkwiler. 2005. Intercept and Recall: Examining Avidity Carryover in On-Site Sample Data, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Murphy J., P.G. Allen, T. Stevens and D. Weatherhead. 2005. A Meta-Analysis of Hypothetical Bias in Stated Preference Valuation. Environmental and Resource Economics 30:313-325. National Research Council. 2005. Endangered and Threatened Species of the Platte River. National Academies Press, Washington D.C. (F. Lupi is a contributing author). Netusil, N. S. Chattopadhyay. 2005. Economic Benefits of Large Patches of Tree Canopy: A Second-Stage Hedonic Price Analysis. in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Peck, D., D. McLeod, J. Lovvorn and J. Hewlett. 2005. Opportunity Costs of Water Leasing: Irrigation, Instream Flow, And Wetland Considerations in the Laramie Basin, Wyoming. Environmental Management 34(6):842-855. Poe, G.L., K.L. Giraud, and J.B. Loomis. 2005. Computational Methods for Measuring the Difference of Empirical Distributions. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87(2):353-366. Poor, P.J. and R. Brule. 2005. Socio-Economic Aspects of Open Space and Agricultural Land Preservation, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Rahman, T., R.C. Mittelhammer, and P. Wandschneider. 2005. Measuring the Well-being across Countries: a Sensitivity Analysis. In: Well-being, poverty and Inequality, ed. M. McGillivray, WIDER Studies in Development Economics, Palgrave Macmillan Press Rahman, T., R.C. Mittelhammer, P. Wandschneider. 2005. Measuring the Quality of Life across Countries: A Sensitivity Analysis of Well-being Indices. UNU-WIDER Research Paper No. 2005/06, January. Ready, R., A. Fisher, D. Guignet, R. Stedman, and J. Wang. 2005. A Pilot Test of a New Stated Preference Valuation Method: Continuous Attribute-Based Stated Choice, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Ready, R.C. 2005. Do Landfills Always Depress Nearby Property Values? Rural Development Paper RDP-27, Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, The Pennsylvania State University, May 2005. 28 pages Ready, R.C., and C. Abdalla. 2005. The Amenity and Disamenty Impacts of Agriculture: Estimates from a Hedonic Pricing Model. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87:314-326. Ready, R.C., and S. Navrud. 2005. Benefit Transfer: The Quick, The Dirty, and the Ugly? Choices 20:195-199. Ready, R.C., W. Delavan, and D. Epp. 2005. A Comparison of Revealed, Stated, and Actual Behavior in Response to a Change in Fishing Quality. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 10:39-52. Richardson, R. and J. Loomis. 2005. Climate Change and Recreation Benefits in an Alpine National Park. Journal of Leisure Research 37(3): 307-320. Richardson, R. and J. Loomis. 2005. Effects of Climate Change on Tourism Demand and Benefits in Alpine Areas (pages 164-180). In Tourism, Recreation and Climate Change. Eds. C.M. Hall and J. Highman. Channel View Publications. ISBN 1-84541-004-1. Rosenberger, R.S. and D.B.K. English. 2005. Impacts of Wilderness on Local Economic Development. In: H.K. Cordell, J.C. Bergstrom and J.M. Bowker (eds.). The Multiple Values of Wilderness. State College, PA: Venture Press. Pp.181-204. Rosenberger, R.S., A.R. Collins and J.B. Svetlik. 2005. Private Provision of a Public Good: Willingness to Pay for Privately Stocked Trout. Society and Natural Resources 18(1):75-87 Rosenberger, R.S., D.B.K. English and M. Sperow. 2005. Rural Economies in Transition: Duration Models of Eastern Wilderness Designation, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. Rosenberger, R.S., Y. Sneh, T.T. Phipps and R. Gurvitch. 2005. A Spatial Analysis of Linkages between Health Care, Expenditures, Physical Inactivity, Obesity and Recreation Supply. Journal of Leisure Research 37(2):216-235. Samnaliev, M., T. Stevens and T. More. 2005. A Comparison of Alternative Certainty Calibration Techniques in Contingent Valuation. Ecological Economics, in press. Schlenker, W., W.M. Hanemann and A.C. Fisher. 2005. Will U.S. Agriculture Really Benefit from Global Warming? Accounting for Irrigation in the Hedonic Approach. The American Economic Review, 95(1):395-406. Shonkwiler, J. S. and J. Englin. 2005. Welfare Losses Due to Livestock Grazing on Public Lands: A Count Data Systemwide Treatment. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87:302-313. Shultz, S. 2005. Evaluating the Acceptance of Wetland Easement Conservation Offers. Review of Agricultural Economics 27(2). Shultz, S. and D. Pool. 2005. The Impact of Combined Grass and Wetland Easements on Agricultural Land Values in South Dakota. Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. Thacher, J., E. Morey and W. Breffle. 2005. A Latent-Class Model of Angler Preferences for Green Bay: Estimated Jointly with Attitudinal Data and Stated Preference-Choice Data, in Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, (S. Shultz), Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133. von Haefen, R.H. and D.J. Phaneuf. 2005. Continuous Demand System Approaches to Nonmarket Valuation, in Applications of Simulation Methods in Environmental & Resource Economics, R. Scarpa & A. Alberini, eds., Springer, Dordrecht. von Haefen, R.H., D.M. Massey, and W. Adamowicz. 2005. Serial Non-Participation in Repeated Discrete Choice Models. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87(4):1061-1076. Vossler, C.A. and G.L. Poe. 2005. Analysis of Contingent Valuation Data with Multiple Bids and Response Options Allowing Respondents to Express Uncertainty: A Comment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 49:197-200. Ward, F.A. 2005. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Prentice-Hall. Ward, F.A. Forthcoming. Decision Support for Water Policy: A Review of Economic Concepts and Tools. Water Policy. Ward, F.A., A.M. Michelsen, and L. DeMouche. Forthcoming. Barriers to Water Conservation in the Rio Grande Basin. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. Ward, F.A., and J.F. Booker. 2005. Economic costs and benefits of instream flow protection for endangered species in an international basin. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 39(2):427-440. Ward, F.A., and J.F. Booker. 2006. Economic impacts of instream flow protection for the Rio Grande silvery minnow in the Rio Grande basin. Reviews in Fisheries Science.14(1-2):187-202. Ward, F.A., B.H. Hurd, T. Rahmani, and N. Gollehon. Forthcoming. Economic Impact of Federal Policy Responses to Drought in the Rio Grande Basin. Water Resources Research. Ward, F.A., J.F. Booker, and A.M. Michelsen. Forthcoming. Integrated Economic, Hydrological, and Institutional Analysis of Policy Responses to Mitigate Drought Impacts in the Rio Grande Basin. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.

Impact Statements

Members have made significant contributions to the estimation of "Economic benefits of ecosystem management"
Members have made significant contributions to the estimation of "Economic values of agricultural land preservation and open space"
Members have made significant contributions to the estimation of "Economic costs and benefits of agro-environmental policies"
Members have made significant contributions to the estimation of "Economic value of changing recreational access"

Date of Annual Report: 09/17/2007

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 03/28/2007 - 03/30/2007
Period the Report Covers: 10/01/2007 - 12/01/2011

Participants

NAME AFFILIATION
James Caudill USDOI, Fish and Wildlife Service
Jerry Fletcher West Virginia University
Kelly Giraud (vice president) University of New Hampshire
Roger von Haefen North Carolina State University
Michael Hand University of New Mexico
LeRoy Hansen USDA, Economic Research Service
Robert Hearne North Dakota State University
Daniel Hellerstein USDA, Economic Research Service
Sandra Hoffmann Resources for the Future
Tom Holmes USDA, Forest Service
Fen Hunt USDA, Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
Robert Johansson US Office of Management and Budget
Robert Johnston University of Connecticut
Mike Kaplowitz Michigan State University
Joe Kerkvliet Oregon State University
Alan Krupnick Resources for the Future
Andreas Lange University of Maryland
Linda Langner USDA, Forest Service
Douglas Lawrence USDA, Natural Resource Conservation Service
Bob Leeworthy USDC, NOAA
John Loomis Colorado State University
Frank Lupi Michigan State University
Vishakha Maskey West Virginia University
Dan McCollum USDA, Forest Service
Don McLeod University of Wyoming
Klaus Moeltner University of Nevada, Reno
Ricarda Moser IASMA
Lara Platt Cornell University
Greg Poe Cornell University
Alan Randall The Ohio State University
Richard Ready Penn State University
Kim Rollins University of Nevada, Reno
Randall Rosenberger (president) Oregon State University
Don Snyder (administrative advisor) Utah State University
Laura Taylor Georgia State University
Will Wheeler US Environmental Protection Agency
Wuyang Hu University of Kentucky
Vishakha Maskey WVU grad student
Archana Pradhan WVU grad student
Lui Xiangph Grad student
Joan Poor St. Marys College

Brief Summary of Minutes

1. Call to Order (4:30 p.m.) (5-minutes)
2. Nomination and Election of Secretary-Treasurer and Vice President (10-minutes)
a. Michael Kaplowitz of Michigan State University was nominated and unanimously elected as the Vice President
b. Roger von Haefen of North Carolina State University was nominated and unanimously elected as the Secretary-Treasurer
3. Location and Date of 2007 Meeting (20-minutes)
a. First option: Hilton Waikoloa Village in Hawaii, February, 2008. Joint with WRSA, W-1192
b. Second option: San Diego, CA
c. Third option: Albequeque, NM
After a discussion of benefits of joining a larger groups for a joint meeting vs. holding a meeting in a location closer to members, it was decided that it would be best to put this question to a vote to the entire membership of W-1133.
[A vote was taken after the meeting and 87.5% of respondents voted for a joint meeting with the WRSA]

4. Don Snyder Rechartering Status (15-minutes)
a. The attendees were delighted to hear of the approval to recharter W-1133 as W-2133.
5. Adjourn (5:30pm)

PAST PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

2002-2006
" Estimate the Economic Benefits of Ecosystem Management of Forest and Watersheds;
" Calculate the Benefits and Costs of Agro-Environmental Policies;
" Estimate the Economic Value of Changing Recreational Access for Motorized and Non-Motorized Recreation; and
" Estimate the Economic Values of Agricultural Land Preservation and Open Space.

1997-2001
" Valuing Ecosystem Management of Forests and Watersheds;
" Benefits and Costs of Agro-Environmental Policies;
" Valuing Changes in Recreational Access; and
" Benefits Transfer for Groundwater Quality Programs.

1992-1996
" Provide Site-Specific Use and Non-Use Values of Natural Resources for Public Policy Analysis; and
" To Develop Protocols for Transferring Value Estimates to Unstudied Areas.

1987-1991
" To Conceptually Integrate Market and Nonmarket Based Methods for Application to Land and Water Resource Base Services;
" To Develop Theoretically Correct Methodology for Considering Resource Quality in Economic Models and for Assessing the Marginal Value of Competing Resource Base Products; and
" To Apply Market and Nonmarket Based Valuation Methods to Specific Resource Base Outputs.

A complete list of activities/presentations is given in the attachment.

Minutes Attachment:

Attachment

Accomplishments

Short-Term Outcomes: Continued Development and testing of economic models of nonmarket value estimation. Outputs: Numerous journal articles and similar reports as per publication list. Activities: In addition to presentations, etc., participated in many local, regional, and national meetings. There is substantial connection to other groups including federal and state agencies, external peer groups, and others. Plan: Continued development of economic models for valuing nonmarket economic resources; Meet jointly with Western Regional Scince Association and W-1192 (Economic, Social, and Ecological Issues of Rangeland Fragmentation that Affect Rangeland Sustainability and Rural Communities in spring of 2008.

Publications

Braden, J.B., Taylor, L.O., Won, D., Mays, N., Cangelosi, A. and Patunru, A.A. 2006. Economic benefits of sediment remediation. Final Report under USEPA Project GL96553601, 113+ pp. www.nemw.org/. Johnston, R.J. and Duke, J.M. 2006. Welfare Implications of the Policy Process: Estimating Context-Sensitive Values for Agricultural and Open Space Conservation. (Abstract) Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 35(2). Eom, Y.-S. and D. M. Larson. 2006. Improving environmental valuation estimates through consistent use of revealed and stated preference information. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 501-516. Eom, Y.-S. and D. M. Larson. 2006. Valuing housework time through giving and volunteering for environmental quality improvements. Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 4, pp. 223-245. Kipperberg, G. and D. M. Larson. 2005. Paying for a public good in money or time: Is there a fundamental difference? An investigation of consumers' preferences for community-wide recycling. Working paper, Dept. of Ag. and Resource Economics, University of California. Kovacs, K. F. and D. M. Larson. 2006. Identifying individual discount rates and valuing public open space. Working paper, Dept. of Ag. and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis. Kovacs, K. F. and D. M. Larson. 2006. Extracting recreation preferences from the housing market with hedonic property price and the travel cost methods. Working paper, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis. Kovacs, K. F. and D. M. Larson. 2006. The influence of recreation and amenities on residential development. Working paper, Dept. of Ag. and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis. Onozaka, Y., D. Bunch, and D. Larson. 2006. What exactly are they paying for? Explaining the price premium for organic fresh produce. ARE Update, Dept. of Ag. and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, Vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 1-4. Brewer, Jed, Robert Glennon, Alan P. Ker, Gary Libecap Transferring Water in the American West: 1987-2005 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform and Policy, forthcoming. Brewer, Jed, Robert Glennon, Alan P. Ker, Gary Libecap Water Markets in the West: Extent, Property Rights, and Regulatory Issues. Economic Inquiry, forthcoming. Hite, Diane. 2006. Book review of Recycling the City: The Use and Reuse of Urban Land, edited by Rosalind Greenstein and Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz. Journal of Regional Science 46 (2): 410-412. Hite, Diane, and Brent Sohngen. 2006. Capitalization of Environmental Amenities at the Rural-Urban Fringe. Book chapter in Environmental Valuation: Interregional and Intraregional Perspectives, John I. Carruthers and Bill Mundy eds., Ashgate Publishing, Hampshire, UK. Templeton, Josh, Diane Hite, and Brent Sohngen. 2006. Forecasting Development at the Suburban Fringe. Book chapter in Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy: Development and Conservation at the Rural-Urban Fringe, R.J. Johnston and S. K. Swallow Eds. Resources for the Future, Washington. Hite, Diane. 2006. Property Value Impacts of Gravel Pits in Delaware County, Ohio. Report for Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo, MI. Ho, S-C, C. de Parisot and D. Hite. Determinants of Risk Perception Associated with the Anniston, AL: Results of a Direct Mail Survey, and Property Value Impacts of the Anniston, AL Chemical Warhead Incinerator. Proceedings of May 2006 SERA 30 Meeting. Jauregui, A., D. Hite, B. Songhen and G. Traxler. 2006. The value of open space in rural and suburban areas: a spatial hedonic approach. Proceedings of May 2006 SERA 30 Meeting. Burton, Diana M. and H. Alan Love. Entry Effects on Strategic Input Procurement Competition. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2006. Burton, Diana M. and H. Alan Love. Measuring the Effect of Processor Entry on Strategic Input Procurement Price, 2006, submitted. Caffey, R.H., Diop, H., Keithly, Jr., W.R. and Kazmierczak, Jr., R.F. 2006. The Economics and Politics of Fisheries Disaster Recovery - Louisiana Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In Proceeding of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade Biennial Conference, Portsmouth, United Kindom, July. Henderson, J., Willson, T., Dunn, M., Kazmierczak, Jr., R.F. and Niu, H. 2006. Impact of Forestry-Related Ordinances on Timber Harvesting. In Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters National Convention, S.J. Chang (ed.). Fort Worth, Texas, October. Bergstrom, J.C. 2005. Comments on Sustainable Coastal Management. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 37, 2. Goetz, S.J., J.S. Shortle and J.C. Bergstrom. 2005. Editors) Land Use Problems and Conflicts: Causes, Consequences and Solutions. Frontiers in Environmental Economics, Routledge: London and New York, Cordell, H.K., J.C. Bergstrom, and J.M. Bowker. 2005. (Principal Authors and Editors), The Multiple Values of Wilderness. Venture Publishing: State College, PA. Goetz, S.J., J.S. Shortle and J.C. Bergstrom. 2005. Contemporary Land Use Problems and Conflicts, Chapter 1 in Goetz, S.J., J.S. Shortle and J.C. Bergstrom (Editors) Land Use Problems and Conflicts: Causes, Consequences and Solutions. Frontiers in Environmental Economics, Routledge: London and New York. Bergstrom, J.C. 2005. Postproductivism and Changing Rural Land Use Preferences and Values, Chapter 6 in Goetz, S.J., J.S. Shortle and J.C. Bergstrom (Editors) Land Use Problems and Conflicts: Causes, Consequences and Solutions. Frontiers in Environmental Economics, Routledge: London and New York. Paterson, R.W., K.J. Boyle, M. Ahearn, A. Alberini, J.C. Bergstrom, L.W. Libby and M.P. Welsch. 2005. Public Preferences for Farmland Attributes in Conservation Easement Programs, Chapter 12 in Goetz, S.J., J.S. Shortle and J.C. Bergstrom (Editors) Land Use Problems and Conflicts: Causes, Consequences and Solutions. Frontiers in Environmental Economics, Routledge, London and New York. Goetz, S.J., J.S. Shortle and J.C. Bergstrom. 2005. Future Research Needs For Rational Land Use Decision Making, Chapter 21 in Goetz, S.J., J.S. Shortle and J.C. Bergstrom (Editors) Land Use Problems and Conflicts: Causes, Consequences and Solutions. Frontiers in Environmental Economics, Routledge, London and New York. Cordell, H.K., J.C. Bergstrom, and J.M. Bowker, 2005. The Multiple Values of Wilderness, Chapter 1 in Cordell, H.K., J.C. Bergstrom, and J.M. Bowker (Principal Authors and Editors.). The Multiple Values of Wilderness. Venture Publishing: State College, PA. Bergstrom, J.C., J.M. Bowker and H.K. Bowker. 2005. An Organizing Framework for Wilderness Values, Chapter 4 in Cordell, H.K., J.C. Bergstrom, and J.M. Bowker (Principal Authors and Editors.). The Multiple Values of Wilderness. Venture Publishing: State College, PA. Johnson, C., J.M. Bowker, H.K. Cordell, and J.C. Bergstrom. 2005. Wilderness Value Differences by Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, Gender and Socioeconomic Status, Chapter 8 in Cordell, H.K. J.C. Bergstrom and J.M. Bowker (Principal Authors and Editors), The Multiple Values of Wilderness. Venture Publishing, State College, PA. Bowker, J.M. J.E. Harvard III, J.C. Bergstrom, H.K. Cordell, D.B.K. English, and J.B. Loomis, 2005. The Net Economic Value of Wilderness, Chapter 9 in Cordell, H.K., J.C. Bergstrom, and J.M. Bowker (Principal Authors and Editors.). The Multiple Values of Wilderness. Venture Publishing: State College, PA. Cordell, H.K., J.C. Bergstrom, and J.M. Bowker, 2005. The Multiple Values of Wilderness and the Future of the National Wilderness Preservation System, Chapter 13 in Cordell, H.K., and J.C. Bergstrom, and J.M. Bowker (Principal Authors and Editors.). The Multiple Values of Wilderness. Venture Publishing: State College, PA. Bergstrom, J.C. and R.C. Ready. 2005. What Have We Learned from 20 Years of Farmland Amenity Valuation Research? W-1133 Regional Project(Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land) Annual Meeting Proceedings, July. Poe, G.L. 2006. Valuing Reductions in Health Risks from Drinking Water: Discussion. Paper presented at EPA/NCEE/NCER conference Morbidity and Mortality: How Do We Value the Risk of Illness and Death? Washington, D.C. April 2006. (Conf. Proc. publication http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eermfile.nsf/vwAN/EE-0497-06.pdf/$File /EE-0497-06.pdf). Pagoulatos, A. and Fleming, R. A. The Environmental Quality Incentives Program In Kentucky: Does It Address Environmental Quality Problems? Journal of Applied Economics and Policy. 24(2005): 33-61. Winfree, J.A., J.J. McCluskey, and R.C. Mittelhammer. 2006. Buyer-Type Effects in Conservation and Preservation Property Values. The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. 33(2):167-179. Samnaliev,M., Stevens,T., and More, T. 2006. A comparison of alternative certainty calibration techniques in contingent valuation. Ecological Economics. 57: 507-519. Urdaneta, Bernardo. 2006. Evaluating alternative funding mechanisms for acadia national park using stated preference methods. MS Thesis. University of Ma-Amherst. Samnaliev, M., Stevens, T., and More, T. 2006. Financing public recreation lands. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration Allen, B. and Loomis, J. 2006. Deriving Values for the Ecological Support Function of Wildlife: An Indirect Valuation Approach. Ecological Economics 56: 49-57. Loomis, J. 2006a. Use of Survey Data to Estimate Economic Value and Regional Economic Effects of Fishery Improvements. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 26: 301-307. Loomis, J. 2006b. A Comparison of the Effect of Multiple Destination Trips on Recreation Benefits as Estimated by Travel Cost and Contingent Valuation Methods. Journal of Leisure Research 38(1): 46-60. Loomis, J. and Caughlan, L. 2006. The Importance of Adjusting for Trip Purpose in Regional Economic Analyses of Tourist Destinations. Tourism Economics 12(1): 33-43. Loomis, J and Richardson, R. 2006. A External Validity Test of Intended Behavior: Comparing Revealed Preference and Intended Visitation in Response to Climate Change. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 49(4): 621-630. Loomis, John, Ellingson, L., Gonzalez-Caban, A. and Seidl, A. 2006. The Role of Ethnicity and Language in Contingent Valuation Analysis: A Fire Prevention Policy Application. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 65(3): 559-586. Loomis, J and Rosenberger, R. 2006. Reducing Barriers in Future Benefit Transfers: Needed Improvements in Primary Study Design and Reporting. Ecological Economics 60: 343-350. Ready, R.C. and Navrud, S. 2006. International Benefit Transfer: Methods and Validity Tests. Ecological Economics 60(1):429-434. Ready, R.C., Fisher, A., Guignet, D., Stedman, R., and Wang, J. 2006. A Pilot Test of a New Stated Preference Valuation Method: Continuous Attribute-Based Stated Choice. Ecological Economics 59(20):247-255. Wang, Li. 2006. Spatial Econometric Issues in Hedonic Property Value Models: Model Choice and Endogenous Land Use. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University. University Park, PA. 134 pp. Lawton, J. 2006. Stated Respondent Uncertainty And Mitigation Of Hypothetical Bias In Choice Experiments. M.S. Thesis, The Pennsylvania State University. University Park, PA. 97 pp. Borisova-Kidder, A. 2006. Meta-Analytical Estimates of Values of Environmental Services Enhanced by Government Agricultural Conservation Programs. Ph.D. dissertation. The Ohio State University. Randall, A. 2006. Discounting Future Prospects, and the Quest for Sustainability, in D. Pannell and S. Schilizzi (eds), Economics and the Future: Time and Discounting in Public and Private Decision Making, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, pp. 97-120. Sohngen, B. and S. Brown. 2006. The Influence of Conversion of Forest Types on Carbon Sequestration and other Ecosystem Services in the South Central United States. Ecological Economics. 57: 698-708. Yeh,C. T. Haab., B. Sohngen. 2006. Modeling Multiple-Objective Trips with Choices over Trip Duration and Alternative Sites. Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics. 34: 189-209. Kelch, D., F. Lichtkoppler, B. Sohngen, and A. Daigneault. 2006. Un-Tapped Resources? The Value of Steelhead Angling in Lake Erie Tributaries. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 32(3): 424-433. Hite, D. and B. Sohngen. 2006. Capitalization of Environmental Amenities at the Urban-Rural Fringe. In Environmental Valuation: Interregional and Intraregional Perspectives. Edited by J.I. Carruthers and B. Mundy (eds.). Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. Templeton, J., D. Hite, and B. Sohngen. 2006. Forecasting Development at the Suburban Fringe. Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy: Methods, Applications, and Practical Perspectives Edited by R.J. Johnston and S.K. Swallow. Resources For the Future Press. Sohngen, B. and M. Taylor. Developing Contracts For Pollution Trading: Performance Considerations for PS-NPS. Plenary Presentation at Conference: Innovations in Reducing Nonpoint Source Pollution. Indianapolis, IN. November 28, 2006. Strager, M. P. and R. S. Rosenberger. 2006. Incorporating Stakeholder Preferences for Land Conservation: Weights and Measures in Spatial MCA. Ecological Economics. 57, pp. 627-639. John P. Hoehn, Methods to Address Selection Effects in the Meta Regression and Transfer of EcosystemValues, Ecological Economics, 60:389-398, 2006. Kotchen, M., Moore, M., Lupi, F., and Rutherford, E. 2006. Environmental constraints on hydropower: An ex-post benefit-cost analysis of dam relicensing in Michigan. Land Economics 82(3):384-403. Swinton, S., Lupi, F., Robertson, P. and Landis, D. 2006. Ecosystem services from agriculture: looking beyond the usual suspects. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88(5): 1160-1166. Racevskis, L. and Lupi, F. 2006. Comparing urban and rural perceptions of and familiarity with the management of forest ecosystems. Society and Natural Resources 19(6):479-495. Matthew A. Wilson and John P. Hoehn, Valuing Environmental Goods and Services Using BenefitTranfer: The State-of-the-Art-and-Science, Ecological Economics, 60:335-342, 2006. Steltzer, Eric. CAPE WIND- PUBLIC VALUES AND PERCEPTIONS: APPLICATION OF CONTINGENT VALUATION METHOD. Master of Science Thesis, University of New Hampshire, 2006. 151 pp. Shultz. S. 2006. Differences between agricultural land value surveys and market sales. Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, 69(1): 8-16. Devanney, M. 2005. The Effect of Arsenic Contamination of Private Wells on Residential Property Values. Unpublished Masters Thesis. Department of Resource Economics and Policy, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Huang, Shan. 2005. The Effect of Mass Media Risk Communication on Averting Behavior. Unpublished Masters Thesis. Department of Resource Economics and Policy, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Neumann, Bradley. 2005. Is all open space created equal? A hedonic application within a data-rich GIS environment. Unpublished Masters Thesis. Department of Resource Economics and Policy, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Walker, Judith. 2006. Length of Residency and the Importance of Environmental Amenities to Residential Location Decisions. Unpublished Masters Thesis. Department of Resource Economics and Policy, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Schlenker, W., W. M. Hanemann, and A. C. Fisher. 2006. The Impact of Global Warming on US Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis of Optimal Growing Conditions, Review of Economics and Statistics 88(1) 113-125. W. Michael Hanemann and Alexander E. Farrell eds. 2006. Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California. California Climate Change Center at UC Berkeley. Hanemann, M., L. Dale, S. Vicuna, D. Bickett and C. Dyckman. 2006. The Economic Cost of Climate Change Impact on California Water: A Scenario Analysis. California Energy Commission PIER Project Report, CEC-500-2006. Vicuna, S., M. Hanemann, and L. Dale. 2006. Economic Impacts of Delta Levee Failure in California Due to Climate Change: A Scenario Analysis. California Energy Commission PIER Project Report CEC-500-2006-004. Cayan, D., A. L. Luers, M. Hanemann, G. Franco, and B.Croes. 2006. Scenarios of Climate Change in California: An Overview. California Energy Commission, Sacramento, Report # CEC-500-2005-186-SF. Joyce, B., S. Vicuna, L. Dale, J. Dracup, M. Hanemann, D. Purkey and D. Yates. 2006. Climate Change Impacts on Water for Agriculture in California: A Case Study in the Sacramento Valley California Energy Commission, Sacramento, Report # CEC-500-2005-194-SF. Sebastian Vicuna, Rebecca Leonardson, John A. Dracup, Michael Hanemann and Larry Dale. 2006. Climate Change Impacts on High-Elevation Hydropower Generation in California's Sierra Nevada: A Case Study in the Upper American River. California Energy Commission, Sacramento, Report # CEC-500-2005-199-SF. Amy Lynd Luers, Daniel R. Cayan, Guido Franco, Michael Hanemann, and Bart Croes. 2006. Our Changing Climate: Assessing the Risks to California, The California Climate Change Center. Hanemann, W. Michael. 2006. The Economic Conception of Water in P. Rogers & R. Llamas (eds.) Water Crisis: Myth or Reality. Taylor & Francis. Carson, Richard T., and W. Michael Hanemann. 2006. Contingent Valuation in Karl-Goran Maler and Jeffrey R. Vincent (eds) Handbook of Environmental Economics. Amsterdam: North-Holland. Hanemann, W. Michael. 2006. Consumer Demand with Several Linear Constraints: A Global Analysis. Theory and Practice in Environmental Economics: Essays in Honour of Karl-Gustaf Lofgren, Thomas Aronson and Runar Brannlund (eds.) Edward Elgar. Mohn, Craig and W. Michael Hanemann. 2006. Caught in a Corner: Using the Kuhn Tucker Conditions to Value Montana Sportfishing, Explorations in Environmental and Resource Economics: Essays in Honor of Gardner Brown, Robert Halvorsen and David Layton (eds), Edward Elgar. Alexander E. Farrell; W. Michael Hanemann, and David Roland-Holst. 2006. Executive Summary. Alexander E. Farrell, W. Michael Hanemann, Christopher Busch, and Eric Hallstein. 2006. Chapter 1: Introduction. W. Michael Hanemann and Alexander E. Farrell (eds), Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California. California Climate Change Center at UC Berkeley. Alan H. Sanstad, W. Michael Hanemann, and Maximilllian Aufhammer. 2006. Chapter 6: End-use Efficiency in a Post-Carbon California Economy: Policy Issues and Research Frontier. W. Michael Hanemann and Alexander E. Farrell (eds), Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California. California Climate Change Center at UC Berkeley. Maximillian Auffhammer, W. Michael Hanemann, and Sarah Szambelan. 2006. Chapter 8: Transportation. W. Michael Hanemann and Alexander E. Farrell (eds), Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California. California Climate Change Center at UC Berkeley. Alexander E. Farrell, W. Michael Hanemann and Christopher Busch. 2006. Chapter 10: Synthesis. in W. Michael Hanemann and Alexander E. Farrell (eds), Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California. California Climate Change Center at UC Berkeley. Analytical Arsenic Consumption and Health Risk Perceptions in a Rural Western U.S. Area,* M. Walker, W.D. Shaw, and M. Benson. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 2006, 42 (5/October): 1363-70. Rosenberger, R.S. and T.D. Stanley. 2006. Measurement, generalization, and publication: Sources of error in benefit transfers and their management. Ecological Economics 60:372-378. Rosenberger, R.S. and T.D. Stanley. 2006. Measurement, generalization, and publication: Sources of error in benefit transfers and their management. Ecological Economics 60:372-378. K. Moeltner, K.J. Boyle, R. W. Paterson (2007). Meta-Analysis and Benefit-Transfer for Resource Valuation: Addressing Classical Challenges with Bayesian Modeling. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 53 (2), p.250 - 269. Joseph Herriges and Kevin Egan, "Multivariate Count Data Regression Models with Individual Panel Data from On-Site Sampling," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2006, pp 567-581. Joseph Herriges and Catherine Kling, "The Benefits From Water Quality Improvements In Iowa's Lakes," prepared for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, October 2006. Biénebe, E. and R. Hearne. 2006. Public Preferences For Biodiversity Conservation and Scenic Beauty Within A Framework Of Environmental Services Payments. Forest Policy and Economics. 9: 335-348. Hearne, R., B. Barbier, and J. Gonzalez. 2006. Small-Scale Agroindustry and the Environment: Coffee Processing in Honduras. In Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries Allen Blackman ed. Resources for the Future Press. Washington, D.C.

Impact Statements

The results from this multistate research committee have been shared with many state, regional, and national agencies, as well as with other peer groups. The literature generated as a part of this project has impacted public policy and assisted in the determination of optimal resource allocation between market and nonmarket economic resources.