Publications from the Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Department faculty at the University of Rhode Island.

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Submissions from 2016

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The Effect of Tropical Cyclones on Climate Change Engagement, Corey Lang and John David Ryder

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Are Two Rents Better than None? When Monopolies Correct Ill-Defined Property Rights, Dale T. Manning and Hirotsugu Uchida

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Rational Expectations Voting in Agent-based Models: An Application to Tax Ceilings, Andreas D. Pape, Todd Guilfoos, Nathan B. Anderson, and Jeffrey Schmidt

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The Geographic Polarization of American Voters, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz and Corey Lang

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Time Scale and Fractionality in Financial Time Series, Thomas W. Sproul

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Have dockside prices improved after MSC certification? analysis of multiple fisheries, Adam Stemle, Hirotsugu Uchida, and Cathy A. Roheim

Submissions from 2015

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The Fishery Performance Indicators: A Management Tool for Triple Bottom Line Outcomes, James L. Anderson, Christopher M. Anderson, Jingjie Chu, Jennifer Meredith, Frank Asche, Gil Sylvia, Martin D. Smith, Dessy Anggraeni, Robert Arthur, Atle Guttormsen, Jessica K. McCluney, Tim Ward, Wisdom Akpalu, Håkan Eggert, Jimely Flores, Matthew A. Freeman, Daniel S. Holland, Gunnar Knapp, Mimako Kobayashi, Sherry Larkin, Kari MacLauchlin, Kurt Schnier, Mark Soboil, Sigbjorn Tveteras, Hirotsugu Uchida, and Diego Valderrama

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Valuation of Expectations: A Hedonic Study of Shale Gas Development and New York's Moratorium, Andrew Boslett, Todd Guilfoos, and Corey Lang

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The Dynamics of House Price Responsiveness and Locational Sorting: Evidence from Air Quality Changes, Corey Lang

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A General Equilibrium Theory of Contracts in Community Supported Agriculture, Thomas W. Sproul and Jaclyn D. Kropp

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The Pricing of Community Supported Agriculture Shares: Evidence from New England, Thomas W. Sproul, Jaclyn D. Kropp, and Kyle D. Barr

Submissions from 2014

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An experimental examination of fisheries with concurrent common pool and individual quota management, Christopher M. Anderson and Hirotsugu Uchida

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Who Benefits from Environmental Regulation? Evidence from the Clean Air Act Amendments, Antonio Bento, Matthew Freedman, and Corey Lang

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Searching for the determinants of climate change interest, Patrick Cavanagh, Corey Lang, Xinran Li, Haoran Miao, and John David Ryder

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Do Weather Fluctuations Cause People to Seek Information about Climate Change?, Corey Lang

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Are Fulbright Applicants Idealists or Opportunists?, Corey Lang and Carrie Gill

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The Mitigating Effect of Strategic Behavior on the Net Benefits of a Direct Load Control Program, Corey Lang and Edson Okwelum

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The Windy City: Property Value Impacts of Wind Turbines in an Urban Setting, Corey Lang and James J. Opaluch

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Partisan Sorting in the United States, 1972-2012: New Evidence from a Dynamic Analysis, Corey Lang and Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz

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Demand for ecolabeled seafood in the Japanese market: A conjoint analysis of the impact of information and interaction with other labels, Hirotsugu Uchida, Yuko Onozaka, Tamaki Morita, and Shunsuke Managi

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Do Japanese consumers care about sustainable fisheries? Evidence from an auction of ecolabelled seafood, Hirotsugu Uchida, Cathy A. Roheim, Hiroki Wakamatsu, and Christopher M. Anderson

Submissions from 2013

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Groundwater management: The effect of water flows on welfare gains, Todd Guilfoos, Andreas D. Pape, Neha Khanna, and Karen Salvage

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Environmental Policy with Collective Waste Disposal, Stephen F. Hamilton, Thomas W. Sproul, David Sunding, and David Zilberman

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Engineering estimates versus impact evaluation of energy efficiency projects: Regression discontinuity evidence from a case study, Corey Lang and Matthew Siler

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Modeling the production of multiple ecosystem services from agricultural and forest landscapes in Rhode Island, Tingting Liu, Nathaniel H. Merrill, Arthur J. Gold, Dorothy Q. Kellogg, and Emi Uchida

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Conservation incentives and collective choices in cooperative fisheries, Daniel A. Ovando, Robert T. Deacon, Sarah E. Lester, Christopher Costello, Tonya Van Leuvan, Karlynn McIlwain, C. Kent Strauss, Michael Arbuckle, Rod Fujita, Stefan Gelcich, and Hirotsugu Uchida

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Deductibles vs. Coinsurance in Shallow-Loss Crop Insurance, Thomas W. Sproul, David Zilberman, and Joseph C. Cooper

Submissions from 2012

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A complementary measurement of changes in China's forestry area using remote sensing data, Xiangzheng Deng, Yin Fang, Emi Uchida, and Scott Rozelle

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Economic valuation of ecosystem services provided by oyster reefs, Jonathan H. Grabowski, Robert D. Brumbaugh, Robert Conrad, Andrew G. Keeler, James J. Opaluch, Charles H. Peterson, Michael F. Piehler, Sean P. Powers, and Ashley R. Smyth

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Targeting maps: An asset-based approach to geographic targeting, Corey Lang, Christopher B. Barrett, and Felix Naschold

Managing the intentional introduction of nonnative species, Meifeng Luo, James J. Opaluch, James F. Anderson, and Kurt Schnier

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The cost of saving a statistical life: A case for influenza prevention and control, Thomas W. Sproul, David Zilberman, David Roland-Holst, and Joachim Otte

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TURFs and Clubs: Empirical Evidence of the Effect of Selfgovernance Korea's Inshore (maul) Fisheries, Emi Uchida, Hirotsugu Uchida, JUNG-SAM LEE, JEONG-GON RYU, and Dae-Young Kim

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The economics of territorial use rights fisheries, or turfs, James E. Wilen, José Cancino, and Hirotsugu Uchida

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The economics of zoonotic diseases: An application to avian flu, David Zilberman, Thomas W. Sproul, Steven Sexton, and David Roland-Holst

Submissions from 2011

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Pressure cookers or pressure valves: Do roads lead to deforestation in China?, Xiangzheng Deng, Jikun Huang, Emi Uchida, Scott Rozelle, and John Gibson

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Analyze the risks of biological invasion, Meifeng Luo and James J. Opaluch

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The effect of a protected area on the tradeoffs between short-run and long-run benefits from mangrove ecosystems, Catherine G. McNally, Emi Uchida, and Arthur J. Gold

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Mapping Shallow Coastal Ecosystems: A Case Study of a Rhode Island Lagoon, Mark Stolt, Michael Bradley, Jim Turenne, Maggie Payne, Eric Scherer, Giancarlo Cicchetti, Emily Shumchenia, Marisa Guarinello, John W. King, Jon Boothroyd, Bryan Oakley, Carol Thornber, and Pete August

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Agglomeration Index: Towards a New Measure of Urban Concentration, Hirotsugu Uchida and Andrew Nelson

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Do Trees Grow with the Economy? A Spatial Analysis of the Determinants of Forest Cover Change in Sichuan, China, Huixia Zhao, Emi Uchida, Xiangzheng Deng, and Scott Rozelle

Submissions from 2010

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Economic growth and the expansion of urban land in China, Xiangzheng Deng, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, and Emi Uchida

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Cost-effectiveness of payments for ecosystem services with dual goals of environment and poverty alleviation, Crystal Gauvin, Emi Uchida, Scott Rozelle, Jintao Xu, and Jinyan Zhan

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Fishing Effort Coordination and Revenue Pooling Arrangement in Fishery Comanagement : Evidence from Japan, Hirotsugu Uchida

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Does Self Management in Fisheries Enhance Profitability? Examination of Korea’s Coastal Fisheries, Hirotsugu Uchida, Emi Uchida, Jung-Sam Lee, Jeong-Gon Ryu, and Dae-Young Kim

Submissions from 2009

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The demand for import services at US container ports, Christopher M. Anderson, James J. Opaluch, and Thomas A. Grigalunas

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Coastal Lagoons and Climate Change: Ecological and Social Ramifications in the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ecosystems, Abigail Anthony, Joshua Atwood, Peter V. August, Carrie Byron, J. Stanley Cobb, Cheryl Foster, Crystal Fry, Arthur Gold, Kifle Hagos, Leanna Heffner, D. Q. Kellogg, Kimberly Lellis-Dibble, James J. Opaluch, Candace A. Oviatt, Anna Pfeiffer-Herbert, Nicole Rohr, Leslie Smith, Tiffany Smythe, Judith Swift, and Nathan Vinhateiro

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Erratum: Simulating direct and indirect damages to commercial fisheries from marine sand mining: A case study in Korea (Environmental Management) (2009) 44 (566-578) DOI: 10.1007/s00267-009-9339-z), Tae Goun Kim and Thomas Grigalunas

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Simulating direct and indirect damages to commercial fisheries from marine sand mining: A case study in korea, Tae Guon Kim and Thomas Grigalunas

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Heterogeneous Transport Costs and Spatial Sorting in a Model of New Economic Geography, Corey Lang

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Conservation payments, liquidity constraints and off-farm labor: Impact of the grain for green program on rural households in China, Emi Uchida, Scott Rozelle, and Jintao Xu

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Conservation payments, liquidity constraints, and off-farm labor: Impact of the grain-for-green program on rural households in China, Emi Uchida, Scott Rozelle, and Jintao Xu

Submissions from 2008

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Growth, population and industrialization, and urban land expansion of China, Xiangzheng Deng, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, and Emi Uchida

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The economic costs to fisheries because of marine sand mining in Ongjin Korea: Concepts, methods, and illustrative results, Tae Goun Kim, Thomas A. Grigalunas, and Kyung Nam Han

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Analyze the risks of biological invasion: An agent based simulation model for introducing non-native oysters in Chesapeake Bay, USA, Meifeng Luo and James J. Opaluch

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Ecosystem Services beyond Valuation, Regulation, and Philanthropy: Integrating Consumer Values into the Economy, Stephen K. Swallow, Elizabeth C. Smith, Emi Uchida, and Christopher M. Anderson

Submissions from 2007

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TURFs and ITQs: Collective vs. individual decision making, José P. Cancino, Hirotsugu Uchida, and James E. Wilen

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Are the poor benefiting from China's land conservation program?, Emi Uchida, Jintao Xu, Zhigang Xu, and Scott Rozelle

Submissions from 2006

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A Battle of Taste and Environmental Convictions for Ecolabeled Seafood: A Contingent Ranking Experiment, Robert J. Johnston and Cathy A. Roheim

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Alternative technology indexes in the offshore oil and gas industry, Shunsuke Managi, James J. Opaluch, Di Jin, and Thomas A. Grigalunas

Submissions from 2005

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12 Valuing large marine ecosystem fishery losses because of disposal of sediments: A case study, T. A. Grigalunas, J. J. Opaluch, and M. Luo

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Who gains from and who Pays for channel deepening? the proposed delaware channel project in delaware, Thomas A. Grigalunas, James J. Opaluch, and Young Tae Chang

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11 Eutrophication in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem: Linking hydrodynamic and economic models for benefit estimation, Thomas A. Grigalunas, James J. Opaluch, Jerry Diamantides, and Dong Sik Woo

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Who Are Resource Nonusers and What Can They Tell Us About Nonuse Values? Decomposing User and Nonuser Willingness to Pay for Coastal Wetland Restoration, Robert J. Johnston, James J. Opaluch, Gisele Magnusson, and Marisa J. Mazzotta

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Environmental regulations and technological change in the offshore oil and gas industry, Shunsuke Managi, James J. Opaluch, Jin Di, and Thomas A. Grigalunas

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Stochastic frontier analysis of total factor productivity in the offshore oil and gas industry, Shunsuke Managi, James J. Opaluch, Di Jin, and Thomas A. Grigalunas

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Technological change and petroleum exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, Shunsuke Managi, James J. Opaluch, Di Jin, and Thomas A. Grigalunas

OCS-related oil spill impacts on natural resources: An economic risk analysis, James J. Opaluch and Thomas A. Grigalunas

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3 A framework for monitoring and assessing socioeconomics and governance of large marine ecosystems, Jon G. Sutinen, Patricia Clay, Christopher L. Dyer, Steven F. Edwards, John Gates, Tom A. Grigalunas, Timothy Hennessey, Lawrence Juda, Andrew W. Kitts, Philip N. Logan, John J. Poggie, Barbara Pollard Rountree, Scott R. Steinback, Eric M. Thunberg, Harold F. Upton, and John B. Walden

Submissions from 2004

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Forecasting energy supply and pollution from the offshore oil and gas industry, Shunsuke Managi, James J. Opaluch, Di Jin, and Thomas A. Grigalunas

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Technological change and depletion in offshore oil and gas, Shunsuke Managi, James J. Opaluch, Di Jin, and Thomas A. Grigalunas

Submissions from 2003

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A spatial-economic multimodal transportation simulation model for US coastal container ports, M. Luo and T. A. Grigalunas

Submissions from 2002

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Containerport investment appraisal and risk analysis: Illustrative case study, Thomas A. Grigalunas, Young Tae Chang, and Meifeng Luo

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Valuing estuarine resource services using economic and ecological models: The Peconic Estuary System study, Robert J. Johnston, Thomas A. Grigalunas, James J. Opaluch, Marisa Mazzotta, and Jerry Diamantedes

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Combining economic and ecological indicators to prioritize salt marsh restoration actions, Robert J. Johnston, Gisele Magnusson, Marisa J. Mazzotta, and James J. Opaluch

Setting priorities for coastal wetland restoration: A GIS-based tool that combines expert assessments and public values, Marisa Mazzota, Gisele Magnuson, James J. Opaluch, and Robert Johnston

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Setting Priorities for Coastal Wetland Restoration: A GIS-based Tool That Combines Expert Assessments and Public Values, James J. Opaluch, Marisa Mazzotta, Gisele Magnuson, and Robert Johnston

Submissions from 2001

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Estimating environmental costs in port development: Case study of economic costs to fisheries of marine disposal of clean dredge sediments, Thomas A. Grigalunas, James J. Opaluch, Meifeng Luo, and Young Tae Chang

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The economic costs to fisheries from marine sediment disposal: Case study of Providence, RI, USA, T. Grigalunas, J. J. Opaluch, and M. Luo

Estimating Amenity Benefits of Coastal Farmland, Robert J. Johnston, James J. Opaluch, Thomas A. Grigalunas, and Marisa J. Mazzotta

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Measuring Consumer Preferences For Ecolabeled Seafood: An International Comparison, Robert J. Johnston, Cathy R. Wessells, Holger Donath, and Frank Asche

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Strength-of-preference indicators and an ordered-response model for ordinarily dichotomous, discrete choice data, Stephen K. Swallow, James J. Opaluch, and Thomas F. Weaver

Submissions from 2000

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Sustainable Financing for Controlling Transboundary Pollution by Shipping in the Malacca Straits - Options and Implications, Thomas A. Grigalunas, Young Tae Chang, and James Opaluch

Submissions from 1999

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Testing Separability of Japanese Demand for Meat and Fish Within Differential DemandSystems, James Eales and Cathy R. Wessells

Submissions from 1998

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Liability for oil spill damages: Issues, methods, and examples, Thomas A. Grigalunas, James J. Opaluch, Jerry Diamantides, and Marisa Mazzotta

Submissions from 1995

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Decision making when choices are complex: a test of Heiner's hypothesis, M. J. Mazzotta and J. J. Opaluch

Submissions from 1994

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Heterogeneous preferences and aggregation in environmental policy analysis: A landfill siting case, Stephen K. Swallow, Thomas Weaver, James J. Opaluch, and Thomas F. Micheiman

Submissions from 1993

Environmental compliance and energy exploration and production: application to offshore oil and gas, Di Jin and T. A. Grigalunas

Environmental compliance and optimal oil and gas exploitation, Di Jin and T. A. Grigalunas

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Evaluating impacts from noxious facilities: including public preferences in current siting mechanisms, James J. Opaluch; Stephen K. Swallow; Thomas Weaver; Christopher W, Wessells; and Dennis Wichelns

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A landfill site evaluation model that includes public preferences regarding natural resources and nearby communities, Dennis Wichelns, James J. Opaluch, Stephen K. Swallow, Thomas F. Weaver, and Christopher W. Wessells

Submissions from 1992

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Siting noxious facilities: an approach that integrates technical, economic, and political considerations, S. K. Swallow, J. J. Opaluch, and T. F. Weaver

Submissions from 1990

Adaptation of an integrated, Ocean systems/Economics damage assessment model to Korea: Some preliminary results, Thomas A. Grigalunas, James J. Opaluch, Sung Chul Chung, Deborah French, and Mark Reed

Submissions from 1989

Managing contaminated marine sediments. Economic considerations, Thomas A. Grigalunas and James J. Opaluch

Perspective on validating the natural resource damage assessment model system, Thomas A. Grigalunas, James J. Opaluch, Deborah P. French, and Mark Reed

The economic damages component of the natural resource damage assessment model system, Thomas A. Grigalunas, James J. Opaluch, and Timothy J. Tyrrell

Overview of a natural resource damage assessment model system for coastal and marine environments, Mark Reed, Deborah French, Thomas Grigalunas, and James Opaluch

Submissions from 1988

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Assessing Liability for Damages under CERCLA: A New Approach for Providing Incentives for Pollution Avoidance, Thomas A. Grigalunas and James J. Opaluch

A natural resource damage assessment model for coastal and marine environments, Thomas A. Grigalunas, James J. Opaluch, Deborah French, Mark Reed, and Dean Knauss

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Hicksian Welfare Measures within a Regret Theory Framework, James J. Opaluch and Kathleen Segerson