Evaluation of cumulative externality: environmental economics, oligopoly and the private provision of public goods

This paper evaluates environmental externality when the structure of the externality is cumulative. The evaluation exercise is based on the assumption that the agents in question form conjectural variations. A number of environments are encompassed within this classification and have received due attention in the literature. Each of these heterogeneous environments, however, possesses considerable analytical homogeneity and permit subscription to a general model treatment. These environments include environmental externality, oligopoly and the analysis of the private provision of public goods. We highlight the general analytical approach by focusing on this latter context, in which debate centers around four issues: the existence of free-riding, the extent to which contributions are matched equally across individuals, the nature of conjectures consistent with equilibrium, and the allocative inefficiency of alternative regimes. This paper resolves each of these issues, with the following conclusions: A consistent-conjectures equilibrium exists in the private provision of public goods. It is the monopolistic-conjectures equilibrium. Agents act identically, contributing positive amounts of the public good in an efficient allocation of resources. There is complete matching of contributions among agents, no free-riding, and the allocation is independent of the number of members within the community. Thus the Olson conjecture—that inefficiency is exacerbated by community size—has no foundation in a consistent-conjectures, cumulative-externality, context (212 words).

BIRD CONTROL UNDER A STATE FISH AND GAME PERMIT SYSTEM

I guess the impetus for laws in our state, really was the action of the city of Boston in 1963, when the Parks and Recreation Department felt that it was time to do something about massive populations of pigeons on the Boston Commons and in the city. The Parks Department came to our agency to find out what could be done. We immediately found as a result of a reorganization and recodification of the laws some 20 years before, that it was illegal to use or apply poisons for the purpose of killing any birds or mammals in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Property owners were given the privilege to destroy animals that were doing damage to their property, but only through mechanical means, certainly not by the use of toxicants. We helped the city of Boston draft a bill in 1963, which allowed our agency, the Division of Fisheries and Game, the agency responsible for all wildlife species in the state, the opportunity to issue certain permits for the use of poison, giving full authority to the director of Fisheries and Game with, of course, approval of my board. This allowed certain discretion on our part.

The effects of quality and environmental management on competitive advantage: A mixed methods study in the hotel industry

This paper reports results derived from a mixed methods study where 13 hotel managers were initially interviewed, followed by a quantitative study of 355 additional managers. Data were analysed using partial least squares path modelling. The research question related to the relationship between quality and environmental management and the competitive advantage sought by hotels. The results indicate that quality management and environmental management permit the improvement of competitive advantage in terms of both costs and differentiation. Moreover, hotels implementing quality programmes find fewer obstacles in implementing environmental management.

Does your business need a land pollution control permit?

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Does your business need a water pollution control permit?

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Does my business need ... a Pollution Control Permit? : air, land, water.

This document was prepared in response to a recommendation by the Governor's Small Business Environmental Task Force. It is intended to provide a guide or roadmap to assist you in determining whether your business requires an Air, Land or Water Pollution Control Permit from the Illinois EPA.

Does my business need an air pollution control permit? /

"3/10."

Fact sheet : draft RCRA post-closure permit modification : Chevron-Texaco/Lockport Facility, Lockport, Illinois : ILD041518861 : State ID #1970500012 : post-closure permit log no. B-38RI-M-1.

"This fact sheet has been prepared pursuant to the requirements of Title 35 Illinois Administrative Code (35 IAC) Section 705.143. The fact sheet is intended to be a brief summary of the principal facts and significant factual, legal, methodological, and policy questions considered in preparing a draft Class 3 RCRA permit modification. This permit modification will allow the current permittee, Chevron Environmental Services Company (CESC), to establish an onsite Corrective Action Management Unit (CAMU) to manage remediation wastes generated during site remediation activities performed under the RCRA Corrective Action program and to establish a facility-wide Groundwater Management Zone (GMZ) for the duration of the corrective action work at the closed refinery. Pursuant to 35 IAC 705.143(a), this fact sheet is sent to the applicant, to the information repository and to any other person who requests it."

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency responsiveness summary for : Sugar Creek Impoundment : Section 401 water quality certification for the construction of a water supply reservoir for the city of Marion.

The city of Marion has applied to the Illinois EPA for Section 401 water quality certification to construct a 1,172 surface acre, raw water impoundment reservoir on Sugar Creek, southeast of Creal Springs, Williamson County, Illinois. This proposal and the impacts are described in the Final EIS, DSI, and DSII. The proposed project will involve the construction of a reservoir on Sugar Creek and the mitigation for affected wetlands and jurisdictional waters of the United States.

Public hearings on the draft NPDES permit for surface discharging private sewage disposal systems : Common Q & A.

"December 2006"

The responsiveness summary of permit decisions for the city of Lake Forest and DK Recycling Systems, Inc.'s landscape waste compost facility and landscape waste transfer station, Lake Forest, Illinois : hearing file no. 325-97.

"January 1998."

Will an NPDES permit be required for my operation? : Common livestock scenarios.

This fact sheet is an outreach tool, designed to assist producers as they attempt to determine whether their operations require coverage under a CAFO National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPEDS) permit. The following common livestock production scenarios and the correlating permitting status for each are designed to assist livestock producers in determining whether an operation requires a permit. A site evaluation by Agency staff may also provide design and operating criteria by which permit problems can be successfully reduced or avoided.

Guidance on setting permit conditions and reporting trial burn results : handbook.

Library has volume II only.

Public Perceptions and Pesticides - A Case Study of the Willapa Bay Oyster Bed Spraying Permit of 2015

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Construction Permit for New Facility

This flow chart shows the steps to go through to obtain a construction permit from DHEC.