Space and the Environment: An Introduction to the Special Issue

RIT Economics Department Working Paper No. 18-11

15 Pages Posted: 2 Jan 2019

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Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Rochester Institute of Technology

Henk Folmer

University of Groningen

Date Written: December 13, 2018

Abstract

We have two objectives in this special issue. First, we bring together in one place, original research that sheds light on the ways in which the notion of “space” affects the conceptualization of natural resource and environmental problems. Second, given this conceptualization, we show how rigorous modeling of natural resource and environmental problems that explicitly accounts for space overcomes some of the shortcomings of non-spatial analysis. Following this introductory paper, there are six additional papers in this issue. Each of these papers discusses a particular research question at the interface of what we call “space and the environment”.

Keywords: Biased and Inconsistent Estimators, Environment, Modeling, Natural Resources, Space, Welfare

JEL Classification: Q50, R11

Suggested Citation

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. and Folmer, Henk, Space and the Environment: An Introduction to the Special Issue (December 13, 2018). RIT Economics Department Working Paper No. 18-11, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3301003

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