| Topics in Environmental Economics 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Boman, M. (Editor), Brannlund, Runar (Editor), Kristrom, Bengt (Editor) |
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ISBN: 079235897X ISBN-13: 9780792358978 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1999 Annotation: Topics in Environmental Economics brings together in one volume a selection of research reports on five priority areas of environmental economics: policy instruments, cost-benefit analysis, cost efficiency, contingent valuation, and experimental economics. The contributions are written by a select group of scholars of international repute. The result is a survey of international and national policy issues and the way they are addressed by environmental economists. Readership: All those who have a scientific interest in environmental economics and policy. Reference source for those interested in major environmental policy issues, both global and national. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Natural Resources - Business & Economics | Environmental Economics - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - General |
| Dewey: 333.7 |
| LCCN: 99037271 |
| Series: Economy & Environment |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.22 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book shows, we believe, the breadth and the complexity of issues that econo- mists now tackle in their analysis of the connections between the ecosystem and the economic system. The book offers contributions to such disparate issues as the value of preserving the wolf in Sweden and the proper distribution of permits in an effective global warming treaty. Because these questions remain at the fore- front of important resource allocation problems that need to be confronted, it is only appropriate that they are represented in a book that intends to paint a picture, albeit certainly incomplete, of the vibrant and progressing state of environmental economics. The contributions cover five areas of environmental economics: policy instru- ments, cost-benefit analysis, cost-efficiency, contingent valuation and experimental economics. Each area is worthy of a book by itself, but here we have made a point of focusing on problems that seem directly applicable to the pressing policy issues of today. Thus, the contributors address topics that are directly relevant to interna- tional and regional policy making, as well as those that are linked to development of supporting information systems (e.g. resource accounting). In addition, the con- tributions seek to provide high-level applications of measurement techniques as well as pertinent critiques of these methods. The next section provides a summary overview of the book. |