scholarly journals EXPERIMENTAL CONTINGENT VALUES FOR REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE FROM OIL SPILLS1

1993 ◽  
Vol 1993 (1) ◽  
pp. 699-703
Author(s):  
Richard W. Dunford ◽  
Sara P. Hudson ◽  
William H. Desvousges
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Contingent Valuation ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Migratory Waterfowl ◽  
Use Values ◽  
Damage Claims ◽  
Different Levels

ABSTRACT Recently, government agencies, acting as trustees for natural resources, have sought substantial claims from potentially responsible parties for natural resource damages resulting from oil spills. Often, non-use damages, which involve losses suffered by people who never use the injured resources, constitute large components of these damage claims. To date, the only method used for measuring these non-use damages is contingent valuation (CV), which uses survey questions to elicit respondents' expressed values for non-market goods. Because CV is the only method available for measuring non-use damages, its estimates need to accurately reflect the true damages. Our results indicate that CV does not provide accurate estimates of these values, which implies that CV is not sufficiently reliable for assessing non-use damages from oil spills. (As part of the same study, we conducted another experiment on valuing different levels of protection for migratory waterfowl in the central fly way, the results of which also indicate that CV does not yield accurate estimates of non-use values for damage assessments.6)

scholarly journals Metodyka waloryzacji przyrodniczej. Część II: Zastosowania w praktyce ocen oddziaływania przedsięwzięć na środowisko

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
Piotr Matyjasiak
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Proper Time ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Ecological Connectivity ◽  
Resource Service

The aim of this paper is (i) to review the method of valorization of natural resources as applied in the environmental impact assessment, and (ii) to develop recommendations on how valorization expertise should be prepared in order to be comprehensive and transparent. Valorization is the proper time to carry out identi>cation of the possible negative environmental impacts and damages of a planned project. It is recommended to perform valorization due to the state (numbers) and functions (quality) of natural resources. This approach is related to the concept of environmental damage, which is defined as a measurable adverse change in a natural resource or measurable impairment of a natural resource service (which means the functions performed by a natural resource for the benefit of another natural resource or the public). Valorization of natural resources should include an assessment of potential environmental damage, including an impact on the local biodiversity, the ecological connectivity, the N2000 network, and the legally protected areas. The valorization of natural resources should be performed at the following thematic levels focusing on the role of the area under consideration due to: (1) the implementation of the objectives of protection of Nature 2000 network and its overall coherence, (2) the implementation of the objectives of protection of legally protected areas other than N2000, (3) the maintenance of the ecological connectivity in a context other than the coherence of Nature 2000 network, (4) the maintenance of species and natural habitats with favorable conservation status, (5) the conservation of species and natural habitat types that are not legally protected.

scholarly journals Government Policy in the Natural Resource Management of Local Community

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Revency Vania Rugebregt ◽  
Abrar Saleng ◽  
Farida Patittingi
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Customary Rights ◽  
The Government

Natural resource management is an important thing that should be done by the community for survival. Consciously of many ways in the management of natural resources has resulted in environmental damage, coupled with government policies that give permission without good supervision to entrepreneurs or private individuals in natural resource management adds a long list of environmental damage. In the last three decades, governments tend to ignore the phenomenon of legal pluralism in the legal development policy, preparation of legal instruments, as well as the implementation of the law through political neglect of the fact legal pluralism. So the product of legislation, especially those that set natural resource management, normatively ignore and displace the rights of indigenous peoples and local over control, management, and utilization of natural resources. Moreover, with deprivation of the rights of indigenous peoples’ customary rights and the implementation of development without taking into consideration the pattern of spatial planning, more and enlarge the conflict between the government and society.

scholarly journals THE SECOND GENERATION OF NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS: LESSONS LEARNED?1

1993 ◽  
Vol 1993 (1) ◽  
pp. 727-731
Author(s):  
Randall B. Luthi ◽  
Linda B. Burlington ◽  
Eli Reinharz ◽  
Sharon K. Shutler
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
General Counsel ◽  
Natural Resource Damage Assessment

ABSTRACT The Damage Assessment Regulations Team (DART), under the Office of General Counsel of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has centered its efforts on developing natural resource damage assessment regulations for oil pollution in navigable waters. These procedures will likely lower the costs associated with damage assessments, encourage joint cooperative assessments and simplify most assessments. The DART team of NOAA is developing new regulations for the assessment of damages due to injuries related to oil spills under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. These regulations will involve coordination, restoration, and economic valuation. Various methods are currently being developed to assess damages for injuries to natural resources. The proposed means include: compensation tables for spills under 50,000 gallons, Type A model, expedited damage assessment (EDA) procedures, and comprehensive procedures. They are being developed to provide trustees with a choice for assessing natural resource damages for each oil spill.

NATURAL RESOURCE PROTECTION IN CALIFORNIA

1985 ◽  
Vol 1985 (1) ◽  
pp. 621-622
Author(s):  
Edward A. Simons
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Petroleum Products ◽  
Resource Protection ◽  
Natural Resource Protection ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Oil Spill Cleanup

ABSTRACT On October 31, 1984, the vessel USS Puerto Rican exploded at sea off San Francisco. The disabled vessel was towed offshore and on November 3, 1984, the stern sank releasing, at least, an estimated 12,000 barrels of petroleum products. California experiences oil spills affecting natural resources every year. Rarely are these spills as large as the Puerto Rican spill, but natural resource protection minimized the losses of bird life as a result of this incident. Planning for oil spill cleanup helped prevent more losses to these natural resources. In addition, some bird cleaning and rehabilitation equipment and facilities have been provided. The equipment and facilities will remain available to reduce the effect of future spills of oil in, or offshore, California.

NON-USE VALUE IN NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS: THE NESTUCCA OIL SPILL

1993 ◽  
Vol 1993 (1) ◽  
pp. 689-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Grigalunas ◽  
James J. Opaluch
Keyword(s):  
Contingent Valuation ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Use Value ◽  
Controversial Subject ◽  
The Public ◽  
Survey Responses

ABSTRACT A contingent valuation (CV) study that attempts to estimate non-use damages from the Nestucca spill was reviewed. The CV study faces formidable obstacles because it focuses on a controversial subject, oil spills, about which the public is known to have exaggerated perceptions, and because respondents may not have well defined dollar values for the environment. An examination of survey responses leads us to conclude that these problems are significant, and that, despite the substantial efforts by well known CV researchers, the results provide no basis for estimating damages due to this spill.

OIL SPILLS, SEABIRDS, AND NRDA: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN U.S. WEST, EAST, AND GULF COASTS

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (1) ◽  
pp. 1131-1139
Author(s):  
Roger C. Helm ◽  
R. Glenn Ford ◽  
Harry R. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Single Event ◽  
Exxon Valdez ◽  
Damage Claims ◽  
Subsequent Passage ◽  
The U.S

ABSTRACT Oil released into the marine environment killed millions of seabirds in the twentieth century and every year tens of thousands of sick, debilitated, moribund, and dead oiled seabirds are beached or sink at sea (Piatt et al. 1990a, Camphuysen & Heubeck 2001, Wiese & Ryan 2003). In the U.S., hundreds to thousands of birds are killed each year by oil released from pipelines, platforms, and vessels (Burger & Fry 1993, Carter 2003, USFWS 2005). Huge oil spills from tankers have killed tens to hundreds of thousands of seabirds in a single event (e.g., Exxon Valdez, Prestige) and even relatively small volumes of oil released from a vessel at sea can kill thousands of seabirds (Page et al. 1990, Piatt et al. 1990b, Burger 1993). Prior to the March 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, little attention was paid to the loss of seabirds from oil spills and damage claims for injury to natural resources, such as seabirds, were rare. Since the Exxon Valdez spill, and the subsequent passage of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90), the pursuit of damages for injury to natural resources has become an expected element of the overall cost of an oil spill. This paper discusses: (1) how the enactment of OPA 90 appears to have affected the oil and marine transportation industries in the U.S., especially along the west coast, (2) how, following the Exxon Valdez spill, natural resource damage (NRD) claims for injury to seabirds have become commonplace, but distinctly different when comparing U.S. west coast oil spills with those on the U.S. east and Gulf of Mexico (hereafter “gulf”) coasts, and (3) predictions on the future source of vessel spills and the changing nature of NRD claim resolution nationwide. An earlier version of this manuscript was provided in Helm et al. (2006); this updated version is similar but provides more details on certain points.

scholarly journals The roles of all tiers of government and development partners in environmental conservation of natural resource: a case study in Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raimi Morufu Olalekan ◽  
Omidiji Adedoyin O ◽  
Ebuete Abinotami Williams ◽  
Makanjuola Bosede Christianah ◽  
Oshatunberu Modupe
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Industrial Growth ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Natural Resource Base ◽  
Resources Conservation ◽  
High Level

Environmental damage usually comes back to development in one way or another and causes a development challenge. As the global demand for natural resources increases, human welfare and its implications relating to environmental degradation and exposure to environmental risks have caused many to lose their means of livelihood, triggering high level of poverty which remains a serious concern. However, globalization has played a central role in determining the future of the world. The role of globalization has proven to be essential to a nation’s ability to yield the maximum potential from its available resources. The maximization of those resources generally leads to the improved economic development of the nation; wellbeing of man and the sustenance of his livelihood are closely associated with the natural resources base. Consequently, there is a global concern for natural resources protection and conservation so that man can continue to sustain his livelihood. Part of the overall development activities of man is industrial growth. As desirable as industries are, their growth is associated with deleterious consequences. This paper examined the threatened natural resources by mans various activities and call on all tiers of Government and Development partners on the need for natural resources conservation in Nigeria. This revealed that industrialisation and its concomitant urbanisation has brought to mans environment such negative factors like loss of biodiversity, enhanced greenhouse warming, desertification, drought, water and air pollution and accumulation of toxic wastes. It is believed that well conserved natural resources will bring economic, social, visual, and aesthetic benefits that guarantee sound and qualitative health of inhabitants. It concludes that conservation of African biodiversity has come to the fore due to its numerous cultural, scientific and economic values. Also, environmental protection regulations should be intensified to protect the environment from excesses exploitations and for sustainable development. This can be achieved principally through recognition, understanding, appreciating and/or integration of endogenous technologies with exogenous technologies whose synergies are capable of enhancing conservation of natural resource base.

THE LAW AND PRACTICE OF ASSESSING DAMAGES TO NATURAL RESOURCES1

1983 ◽  
Vol 1983 (1) ◽  
pp. 559-563
Author(s):  
James S. Mattson ◽  
Allen van Emmerik
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Appellate Court ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Federal Water Pollution Control ◽  
Damage Claims ◽  
The Common

ABSTRACT For oil spills, the basis for natural resource damage claims in federal law is section 311 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA). These rarely used provisions will be strengthened by regulations mandated by Congress in the 1980 “Superfund” law. This paper describes the development of federal natural resource law as it applies to compensation of states and the federal government for injuries to natural resources, and the changes to the common law brought about the FWPCA and Superfund provisions and by the recent federal appellate court decision in Puerto Rico v. S.S. Zoe Colocotroni. Finally, the authors present their views on how to make such claims.

scholarly journals Government Policy in the Natural Resource Management of Local Community

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Revency Vania Rugebregt ◽  
Abrar Saleng ◽  
Farida Patittingi
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Customary Rights ◽  
The Government

Natural resource management is an important thing that should be done by the community for survival. Consciously of many ways in the management of natural resources has resulted in environmental damage, coupled with government policies that give permission without good supervision to entrepreneurs or private individuals in natural resource management adds a long list of environmental damage. In the last three decades, governments tend to ignore the phenomenon of legal pluralism in the legal development policy, preparation of legal instruments, as well as the implementation of the law through political neglect of the fact legal pluralism. So the product of legislation, especially those that set natural resource management, normatively ignore and displace the rights of indigenous peoples and local over control, management, and utilization of natural resources. Moreover, with deprivation of the rights of indigenous peoples’ customary rights and the implementation of development without taking into consideration the pattern of spatial planning, more and enlarge the conflict between the government and society.

EVALUATION OF COMPENSATION FORMULAE TO MEASURE NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGES1

1993 ◽  
Vol 1993 (1) ◽  
pp. 739-743
Author(s):  
Gordon A. Robilliard ◽  
Marion Fischel ◽  
William H. Desvousges ◽  
Richard W. Dunford ◽  
Kristy Mathews
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Indian Tribe

ABSTRACT Most of the oil spills in marine, estuarine, or freshwater environments of the United States are small (less than 1,000 gallons) and result in minimal injury to natural resources or little to no loss of services. However, federal, state, and Indian tribe trustees for natural resources are entitled under a variety of laws, including the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, to collect damages (money) from responsible parties to compensate for the foregone services and restoration of the services provided by the natural resources. Alaska, Washington, and Florida have developed a formula-based approach to calculating natural resource damages resulting from most spills; the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and several other states are considering developing a compensation formula. The ideal compensation formula is a simplified assessment process that (a) can be applied rapidly, (b) requires relatively small transaction or assessment costs, (c) requires minimal site- and spill-specific data as inputs, (d) is based on generally accepted scientific and economic principles and methods, and (e) results in damage values acceptable to both the trustees and the responsible party. In theory, a compensation formula could be applied to most small oil spills in United States waters.

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