959 research outputs found
Valuing the attributes of renewable energy investments in Scotland
No full textThis study was funded by a grant from the Scottish Economic Policy Network (SEPN) with funding assistance provided by the University of Glasgow, Department of Economics (Professor Nick Hanley) and the University of Sterling (Robert Wright). The goal of the project was to determine the value of differing types of renewable energy projects by how they would effect environmental and community quality of life factors. The key issues examined include; air quality, landscape, wildlife, and long term local employment. Stated preference methods were employed through the use of a discrete choice experiment survey approach. Willingness-to-pay for different types of renewable energy projects was estimated, i.e., moderate onshore windmill farms, large onshore windmill farms, offshore windmill farms, and biomass fueled power plants. The most significant findings were that rural areas likely to be most highly impacted by the new energy projects were willing to accept low or moderate environmental damage in exchange for commercial development gains. Urban respondents on the other hand were more likely to oppose any disturbance to the landscape or wildlife and had no value placed on the economics development gains for the rural areas; income level of households showed no significant difference in environmental values
Letter from Carl Hayden to Roy W. James and M. J. Hanley
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to Roy James and M. J. Hanley expressing a wish to soon have a definite answer in regards to their insurance claims
Economic benefits of reduced deforestation are offset by excess deforestation – a counterfactual simulation
No full textThe impacts of elicitation context on stated preferences for agricultural landscapes
No full textFunded by UK Research Council, ESRC, and NERC.Statements of willingness to pay (WTP) have been shown to be dependent upon the framing of the hypothetical market. In this paper we investigate the effects of variations in the timing and location of choice experiment questions concerned with conservation of a UK national park, as research involving measurement of psychological well-being suggests potential differences for the same individual dependent upon when and where preferences are elicited. We apply the choice experiment technique to the valuation of changes in upland agricultural and semi-natural landscapes in the Peak District National Park in the UK, to investigate whether timing and location of elicitation (context) affects the value associated with changes in ecosystem services under different management regimes. Four treatments are employed - using the same sample of individuals answering the same choice scenarios - to measure WTP ex-ante (off site), in situ (on site), and ex-post at two different time intervals (off site). We show that our on-site (in situ) treatment generates very different estimates of preferences than any of the off-site treatments. That stated preferences associated with environmental goods are so context dependent may have implications for the use of stated preferences in policy analysis in terms of identifying how environmental policy is funded and the divergence in value attributed to sampling different populations.Peer reviewe
Estimating the Benefits of Agri-environmental Policy: Econometric Issues in Open-ended Contingent Valuation Studies
No full textThis paper reports on an open-ended Contingent Valuation Method study of the conservation benefits of Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESAs) in Scotland. The ESA scheme is a central component of agri-environmental policy in the UK, and an interesting policy question concerns the extent of non-market benefits generated by such ESAs. The econometric issues we raise in this paper revolve around bid curves. Bid curves are estimated in open-ended Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) studies for three reasons. These are: (1) as a test of theoretical validity; (2) as a test of discriminant validity; and (3) as a means of benefits transfer. Within the first and last of these aims, the partial relationship between willingness to pay (WTP) and independent variables such as income is of interest. There are several econometric issues involved in estimating such relationships, First, the selection process implicit in obtaining positive WTP bids should be explicitly modelled. Second, many CVM surveys suffer from item non-response with respect to 'sensitive' questions such as the respondent's income; these non-responses may be non-random in nature. Finally, it is possible to dis-aggregate the effect of marginal changes in, say, income on WTP into two elements, namely: an effect on the probability that the individual will be willing to pay something; and secondly, an effect on how much they are willing to pay.
Effects on Welfare Measures of Alternative Means of Accounting for Preference Heterogeneity in Recreational Demand Models
No full textMultiattribute-revealed preference data are used to investigate heterogeneity in a sample of kayakers for a panel of whitewater sites in Ireland. This article focuses on a comparison of preference heterogeneity using a random parameter logit model with correlated tastes and a latent class model, in terms of the implications for welfare measures of environmental quality and site-access changes. Recreationalists' skill levels are found to affect preferences in both approaches. Statistics for the estimated distribution of welfare changes for the average respondent are computed for changes in site attributes, but contrary to previous work, these are found to be of similar magnitude. Copyright 2008, Oxford University Press.
'May Contain Nuts'? The Reality behind the Rhetoric Surrounding the British Conservatives' New Group in the European Parliament
No full textThis is the original accepted version of the paper (consisting of three parts):'May Contain Nuts’? The Reality behind the Rhetoric Surrounding the British Conservatives’ New Group in the European Parliament; Authors: TIM BALE, SEA´ N HANLEY AND ALEKS SZCZERBIAK, published originally in The Political Quarterly 81(1): 85-98, January–March, Copyright The Authors © 2010. An online version of the final, compiled by the journal, version is available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.02067.x/pd
Portrait of Howard Hanley
No full textHoward Hanley was born January 1, 1937, in Sussex, England and received a Bachelor of Science (1959) and a Ph.D. (1963) in chemistry from Queen Mary College at the University of London. He came to the U.S. as a research associate at Pennsylvania State University, and in 1965 joined the National Bureau of Standards’ Cryogenics Division in Boulder as a physical chemist.
Hanley was as an internationally recognized expert in the theory, prediction, interpretation, and correlation of thermophysical property data. His major research interests included experimental and theoretical investigations of structure in complex multiphase fluid systems; the properties and behavior of synthetic liquids, petroleum liquids and natural gas; and transport phenomena and rheology. He was named an NBS Fellow in 1985 and retired in 2000.
Hanley received numerous awards and recognitions including: the Department of Commerce Gold Medal and Silver Medal; he was named the senior scientific advisor to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization; Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London; and a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin.
While at NIST, he established collaborations with the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Colorado and with several universities abroad, including the Technical University of Berlin, the Langevin Institute in Grenoble, and the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University. Hanley was active in promoting industrial applications of academic and government research. He served on committees of many national and international organizations.
The author or co-author of over two hundred research publications, he delivered more than ninety invited talks and lectures at universities, institutions and conferences worldwide. He organized an international conference on Nonlinear Fluid Behavior in Boulder in 1982, very early in the development of this new subject. He also organized the 9th and the 11th Conference on Thermophysical Properties in Boulder. These conferences were so successful that all of the subsequent triannual conferences have been held in Boulder. The most recent, the 22nd Conference was held in 2024.
Howard Hanley died March 27, 2025 in Australia.
Source: Standards Alumni Association Newsletter Sept. 202
Greening the national accounts for Scotland
No full textOur main finding is that according to green accounting measures, Scotland's development over much of the past 20 years has not, on the whole, matched up to the standards of sustainability. However, the national picture seems to have improved in the recent past
Cost-benefit analysis and the greenhouse effect
No full textThis paper looks at the growing concern over Greenhouse Gas emissions and the resulting human induced climate change. The background to a cost-benefit approach is sketched in terms of the scientific understanding and expected impacts. Then the theory behind a cost-benefit approach is explained and some of the studies and their results are critically presented. In the final section the concern for future generations is raised and a cost-benefit approach is shown to violate a right of the innocent to be free from harm. The conclusion is that economics cannot calculate the damages and the cost-benefit approach cannot therefore answer the question of how much to reduce Greenhouse Gases. Instead a range of no regrets policy actions are recommended along with changing how the deliberate creation of future harm of the innocent is treated both in economics and public policy.
This is a paper from the Ecological Economics discussion paper series edited by Clive L. Spash and run from Stirling University from 1994 to 1996. This particular paper was published as: Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Greenhouse Effect. In Nick Hanley and Clive L. Spash (1993) Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment. Aldershot, England, Edward Elgar Chapter 13
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