Paying for harbor maintenance in the US: Options for moving past the Harbor Maintenance Tax

McIntosh, Christopher S.; Wilmot, Neil A.; Skalberg, Randall K

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2015.02.014

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“…The second would be that industrial and final consumers located outside the region who purchase commodities from Haute-Normandie would directly bear restoration costs. For international trade, such options may be considered as tariff barriers and this requests case-by-case law studies (McIntosh et al, 2015).…”

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The shared environmental responsibility principle: new developments applied to the case of marine ecosystems

Cordier

Poitelon

Hecq

2018

Economic Systems Research

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Estuaries provide advantageous sites for both harbors and fish habitats. In many countries, harbor expansion in estuaries contributed to the decline of fish populations with impacts at the global scale. Restoring these habitats is important to prevent a global biodiversity crisis but is costly and potentially unaffordable for polluters under the Polluter Pays Principle. Such affordability issues prompt decisionmakers to reduce environmental targets of restoration programs. Harbor infrastructures destroy fish habitats but generate benefits for society and contribute to the public interest, raising some questions on who is responsible for environmental degradations and who can afford environmental restoration costs? One way to allocate restoration costs is to analyze the amount of harbor services consumed by economic sectors. This paper addresses these questions by computing burden sharing scenarios with an input-output matrix. These scenarios are simulated under the shared responsibility principle to distribute restoration costs among stakeholders in the Seine estuary, France.

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The shared environmental responsibility principle: new developments applied to the case of marine ecosystems

Cordier

Poitelon

Hecq

2018

Economic Systems Research

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“…Although this user-pays principle could be considered a laudable objective, the HMT has been criticised for various reasons (e.g. McIntosh et al 2015;Simkins and Stewart 2015). The criticism most relevant for our discussion here relates to cross-subsidisation and the limited correlation between the HMT and the costs it covers.…”

Section: Maintenance Feesmentioning

confidence: 99%