Understanding Community Impacts: A Tool for Evaluating Externalities from Local Bio-Fuels Production

T. Randall Fortenbery and Steven Deller ()

No 10278, Staff Papers from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics

Abstract: The popularity of public investment in local bio-fuels production as a rural development initiative is growing. An important consideration in determining the level of public support for a plant's development, however, is accurately measuring public externalities resulting from plant activity. The purpose of this research was to first develop a set of community multipliers associated with various bio-fuel plant configurations, and then develop an easy to use tool that allows local communities to measure potential benefits based on varying levels of plant activity.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.10278

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