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INFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEMS IN NEW ZEALAND

Listener: 17 September, 2011.
Keywords: Environment & Resources;� Governance;
The cinema may give a good idea about the sewers of Paris and Vienna, but I have little idea what goes on underneath the city in which I live. I just pull the plug or chain and the waste magically disappears.
For the citizens of Christchurch, it did that [...]

CAP IN HAND

Making the emissions trading scheme “affordable” may� hit future generations hard.
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Listener: 10 October, 2009.
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Keywords: Environment & Resources;�� Distributional Economics;
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Global warming is a consequence of a market failure: polluters emit chemicals without having to pay the price of their emissions. Some sort of taxation regime would no doubt make the world better [...]

THE COMMERCIAL VALUE OF TANIWHA SPRINGS

Report prepared for Te Maru o Ngati Rangiwewehi (June 2009)
Keywords: Environment & Resources;� Maori;
Introduction
My name is Brian Henry Easton. I am an independent scholar with particular expertise in economics, social statistics and public policy analysis. I hold a D.Sc. from the University of Canterbury and am an adjunct professor at the Institute of Public Policy [...]

COSTAL OCCUPANCY CHARGES.

Statement of Evidence of Brian Henry Easton in an Appeal Under The Resource Management Act 1991 between Margaret and� Stephen Thompson Marlborough District Council (Env-2006-WLG-000038)
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Keywords: Environment & Resources;� Regulation & Taxation;
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Introduction
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I.�� My name is Brian Henry Easton. I am an independent scholar with particular expertise in economics, social statistics and public policy professor at [...]

DOES MATERIAL AFFLUENCE BOOST WELLBEING?

Revised version of the paper to 7X7 seminar, Wellington, 22 July, 2008
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Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;
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What is the purpose of it all? For 200 years economists have assumed that the more material goods the better, and the purpose of the economy was to supply those goods. The notion that more consumption means you [...]

ASSESSING THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE ETS

Paper to MSD seminar of the Social Impacts of the Emissions Trading Scheme, Thursday 28 February, 2008.
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Keywords: Environment & Resources;�
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Thankyou for the invitation to talk today. It is a pleasure to be working again with Computable General Equilibrium Models. In the early 1980s New Zealand was a world leader in CGE modelling. Unfortunately [...]

TANIWHA SPRINGS

This was a draft an affidavit I prepared for the Environment Court. in November 2007. It was rules out as not relevant to the proceedings. It is included here because it shows an ingenious method for valuing physical resources in some instances.
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Keywords: Environment & Resources;� Maori;
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Introduction
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My name is Brian Henry Easton. I am an [...]

SEEKING SUSTAINABILITY

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This is a note I prepared for some colleagues. written on October 1, 2007.
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Keywords: Environment & Resources;� Governance;
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Seeking sustainability is like transforming the economy. It is always going on and there is no once in a lifetime policy, although (as for the economic transformation) there are periods of acceleration.
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Definition
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Let’s define the sustainability issue as follows
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GREATER GOOD

Limit Your Carbon Emissions for Honourable Reasons, But Don�t Expect the World to Follow.
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Listener: 11 August, 2007.
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Keywords: Environment & Resources;� Globalisation & Trade;
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It will not be easy for the world to solve the threat of global warming. It requires collective action, but there is no supranational political entity to enable it.
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The Kyoto Agreement is between [...]

PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMIC TARGETING

Revised commentary on “Energy Policy, Climate Change and Targets”, by Jonathon Boston. To the Institute of Policy Studies Roundtable on Energy Policy and Climate Change: Tuesday 20 March 2007.��
Keywords: Environment & Resources; Regulation & Taxation;�
Targeting is a form of indicative planning. What have we learned from past exercises?�
First we need a taxonomy, a hierarchy which [...]

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