Citizen's participation in permit markets and social welfare under uncertainty

Rousse, Olivier; Sévi, Benoît

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2012.11.016

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“…Encouraging broad participation in environmental markets can be traced back to the original idea of using markets to meet pollution goals (Rousse and Sévi ). In fact, Dales (, 95–96), who first proposed the idea of markets for water pollution rights in 1968, stated that anyone should be allowed to participate including conservation groups and speculators.…”

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“…It is well documented that transaction costs can be high and many citizens lack information about how AQMs work, about the prices of allowances, or about the damages from air pollutants (Joskow et al. ; Israel ; Rousse and Sévi ). Free‐riding occurs because individuals or firms cannot be excluded from enjoying the benefits of improved environmental quality.…”

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Exploring Nontraditional Participation as an Approach to Make Water Quality Trading Markets More Effective

Heberling

Thurston

Nietch

2018

J American Water Resour Assoc

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Water quality trading (WQT) has the potential to be a low-cost means for achieving water quality goals. WQT allows regulated wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) facing discharge limits the flexibility to either reduce their own discharge or purchase pollution control from other WWTPs or nonpoint sources (NPSs) such as agricultural producers. Under this limited scope, programs with NPSs have been largely unsuccessful at meeting water quality goals. The decision to participate in trading depends on many factors including the pollution control costs, uncertainty in pollution control, and discharge limits. Current research that focuses on making WQT work tends to identify how to increase participation by traditional traders such as WWTPs and agricultural producers. As an alternative, but complementary approach, we consider whether augmenting WQT markets with nontraditional participants would help increase the number of trades. Determining the economic incentives for these potential participants requires the development of novel benefit functions requiring not only economic considerations but also accounting for ecological and engineering processes. Existing literature on nontraditional participants in environmental markets tends to center on air quality and only increasing citizen participation as buyers. Here, we consider the issues for broadening participation (both buyers and sellers) in WQT and outline a multidisciplinary approach to begin evaluating feasibility.(KEY TERMS: water quality trading; nonpoint source pollution; nontraditional participants; nutrients; water quality economics.)Heberling, Matthew T., Hale W. Thurston, and Christopher T. Nietch, 2018. Exploring Nontraditional Participation as an Approach to Make Water Quality Trading Markets More Effective.

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Section: Background On Broad Participationmentioning

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Section: Background On Broad Participationmentioning

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Exploring Nontraditional Participation as an Approach to Make Water Quality Trading Markets More Effective

Heberling

Thurston

Nietch

2018

J American Water Resour Assoc

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“…3. Rousse and Sevi (2013) state that when citizens do not have strong motivation to participate in the outcomes associated with common pool resources, they are likely to demonstrate free-riding behavior.…”

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Estimating the mechanism of farmers’ effective participation in Chinese rural land consolidation

Wang

Zhou

et al. 2018

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Purpose Effective farmer participation in the rural land consolidation process has become increasingly important because it improves results in rural land consolidation and land use efficiency. The purpose of this paper is to examine the mechanism of farmers’ effective participation in Chinese rural land consolidation. Design/methodology/approach The authors empirically assess farmers’ effective participation in the rural land consolidation process in ten counties of China’s Hubei province. Focusing on an effective decision-making model, the authors comprehensively evaluated farmer participation using surveys that incorporated an index system and analyzed survey results using a structural equation model to examine factors that influenced farmer’s effective participation. Findings The results of the study suggest that the correlations between farmers’ effective participation and the impacting factors the authors proposed were particularly strong. In addition, participation ability, participation opportunity and participation incentive are strongly associated with effective farmer participation. Thus, the authors highlight that incentives should be provided to encourage farmers’ effective participation in rural land consolidation. Research limitations/implications Because of the chosen approach and the set of the research object, the geographic context of the empirical survey work was limited; furthermore, the authors only studied the influencing factors at the individual level, leaving the interaction effects between governmental factors and farmer individual factors inadequately explained. Originality/value Despite those limitations, these results serve as an important reference for government agencies and stakeholder groups in rural land consolidation decision making.

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“…Neil et al [9] studied the social security, growth and welfare in overlapping generations' economies with or without annuities by employing a stylized pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) social security program. Rousse [10] provided theoretical arguments about the potential welfare-decreasing impact of citizen's participation when at least one of these assumptions was violated and recommended a limited participation of individuals in permit schemes while encouraging a better diffusion of information toward this class of potential participants. Kim et al [11] proposed a distributed task allocation algorithm for a team of robots with resource constraints inspired by social welfare in economics, and social welfare based on the task allocation method positioned a robot team appropriately in preparedness for dynamic future events and enabled them to achieve the objectives of the system flexibly depending on the application context.…”

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Social Welfare Evaluation of Electric Universal Service in China: From the Perspective of Sustainability

Zhao¹,

Guo²,

Zhang³

et al. 2014

Sustainability

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Electric universal service aims to improve the individual living quality in remote and underdeveloped areas, the implementation of which can promote the sustainable development of people's lives and the local economy to some extent. A social welfare evaluation model of electric universal service was proposed, which was divided into economic and non-economic welfare evaluation models. After the factors influencing the social welfare sense of electric universal service were identified from the perspective of sustainability, the economic welfare evaluation model was built based on Atkinson's social welfare function, and the non-economic welfare evaluation model was constructed based on the ideological connotation of prospect theory. Taking Yunnan province in China as the example, a social welfare evaluation of electric universal service was performed. The result shows that the social welfare of electric universal service for Yunnan rural areas has increased by 9.79% from 2006 to 2011, and the "electric service realization degree" is the most sensitive indicator.

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Citizen's participation in permit markets and social welfare under uncertainty

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References 36 publications

Exploring Nontraditional Participation as an Approach to Make Water Quality Trading Markets More Effective

Exploring Nontraditional Participation as an Approach to Make Water Quality Trading Markets More Effective

Estimating the mechanism of farmers’ effective participation in Chinese rural land consolidation

Social Welfare Evaluation of Electric Universal Service in China: From the Perspective of Sustainability

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