Environmental economics Books

Book SynopsisAs numerous jurisdictions implement emissions mitigation mechanisms that put a price on carbon, this incisive book explores the emerging emissions markets and their diverse and fragmented nature. It proposes an innovative model for connecting such markets, offering a significantly more successful and expeditious achievement of climate policy objectives. Justin D. Macinante proposes distributed ledger technology to foster fluid markets that price carbon emissions more effectively, achieve greater scale and efficiency, and are less susceptible to manipulation. He investigates the applicable regulatory frameworks, technology design issues and governance structures for the model proposed for networking emissions trading schemes within the context of the Paris Agreement. Providing a plausible and viable mechanism to achieve desired policy outcomes with economic, political and environmental benefits, Effective Global Carbon Markets will be a key resource for practitioners, policy makers and consultants alike, as well as being of value to scholars and students engaged with environmental and energy law, climate change and environmental economics.Trade Review'This is a ground-breaking book. It offers a wonderful combination of cutting-edge research with practical engagement on a profound question in climate change policy: how in reality to foster international carbon pricing. It starts from the right premise, of inevitably different systems emerging from governments around the world - and shows how modern information technology could be applied to solve the practical and political conundrum of how they could then be linked.' --Michael Grubb, University College London, UK'Blockchain has become a buzzword of late, including in the realm of climate policy. Its appeal stems as much from a vague promise to revolutionize complex processes as from the fact that it is often barely understood. Not so in this new book by Justin Macinante: as one of the very few experts who combine practical experience in carbon trading with critical analysis of distributed ledger technology, he offers a bold vision for the future of market-based climate cooperation that is backed up by unparalleled technical detail. A pioneering treatise that will set the standard for all future work on the topic.' --Michael Mehling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US'Carbon markets, where properly designed and adopted, have proved an effective mechanism to address climate change. However, with the exception of certain mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol, their implementation has tended to be largely fragmented. Macinante provides an effective pathway for linking global carbon markets, reminding us that ultimately such markets, and their role in addressing climate change, should be seen as a central part of our global financial system.' --Martijn Wilder, Founding Partner, Pollination GroupTable of ContentsContents: PART I Introductory matters and background 1. Introduction to effective global carbon markets 2. Background: the problem of and response to climate change PART II The carbon market from three perspectives 3. Compartmentalisation of the carbon market 4. The nature of what is traded in the carbon market 5. Carbon market diversity and reasons to connect PART III 6. The networked market on distributed ledger technology – concept and theory 7. Practical implementation of the proposed networked market PART IV Analysis of the proposal 8. Governance structure for the networked market 9. Analysis of the networked market – legal issues PART V Concluding matters 10. Conclusions on effective global carbon markets Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Advanced Introduction to Water Economics and Policy highlights various aspects of economic and policy considerations as they are applied to water decision-making and evaluation in a comprehensive and clear manner.Key Features: Presents example-based simplified descriptions of water problems and economic principles used to address them Provides examples from different countries and analysis of main water-using sectors Highlights emerging topics in water economics that address water scarcity and discusses economic and policy aspects related to the management of water at local, regional and international scales Researchers and students will appreciate the comprehensive, straightforward presentation of critical information in this Advanced Introduction that does not get lost in technical jargon.Trade Review‘A very well written book that helps readers understand the issues framing relevant theories and practice. Most chapters provoke further thoughts about the issues. Practical applications make the book relevant for non-specialists as does the understandable, less technical language. One can learn much about water economics and policy problems in this relatively short book.’ -- Petr Sauer, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic‘As a world-class water resources economist, Professor Ariel Dinar is always at the edge of the discipline. The book is another outstanding contribution to the application of economics in hot water issues around the world.’ -- Dajun Shen, Renmin University, ChinaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to Advanced Introduction to Water Economics and Policy 2. Past and future trends in water availability and use 3. Management of water in the agricultural sector 4. Management of water in the residential sector 5. Environment-water interactions and management 6. Economic and policy considerations in groundwater management 7. Economics of water pollution regulation 8. Economics and politics of international water management 9. Climate change and water resources 10. Emerging topics in water economics and policy 11. Summary and concluding remarks to Advanced Introduction to Water Economics and Policy Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Advanced Introduction to Water Economics and Policy highlights various aspects of economic and policy considerations as they are applied to water decision-making and evaluation in a comprehensive and clear manner.Key Features: Presents example-based simplified descriptions of water problems and economic principles used to address them Provides examples from different countries and analysis of main water-using sectors Highlights emerging topics in water economics that address water scarcity and discusses economic and policy aspects related to the management of water at local, regional and international scales Researchers and students will appreciate the comprehensive, straightforward presentation of critical information in this Advanced Introduction that does not get lost in technical jargon.Trade Review‘A very well written book that helps readers understand the issues framing relevant theories and practice. Most chapters provoke further thoughts about the issues. Practical applications make the book relevant for non-specialists as does the understandable, less technical language. One can learn much about water economics and policy problems in this relatively short book.’ -- Petr Sauer, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic‘As a world-class water resources economist, Professor Ariel Dinar is always at the edge of the discipline. The book is another outstanding contribution to the application of economics in hot water issues around the world.’ -- Dajun Shen, Renmin University, ChinaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to Advanced Introduction to Water Economics and Policy 2. Past and future trends in water availability and use 3. Management of water in the agricultural sector 4. Management of water in the residential sector 5. Environment-water interactions and management 6. Economic and policy considerations in groundwater management 7. Economics of water pollution regulation 8. Economics and politics of international water management 9. Climate change and water resources 10. Emerging topics in water economics and policy 11. Summary and concluding remarks to Advanced Introduction to Water Economics and Policy Index

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Book SynopsisCritically assessing recent developments in environmental and tax legislation, and in particular low-carbon strategies, this timely book analyses the implementation of market-based instruments for achieving climate stabilisation objectives around the world. Through case studies and broader analysis, international experts examine taxes and subsidies in energy intensive sectors including stationary energy and transport in Europe and South America, and low-carbon strategies in Australia and East Asia. They also address cross-cutting policy issues involving water pollution and biodiversity protection. This work illustrates how economic instruments for a low-carbon transition need to align with other governmental policies and together influence behaviour in multiple domains such as energy, mobility, trade, land use and innovation. Providing a rich economic modelling of environmental fiscal policies, this topical book will be an engaging read for environmental tax scholars and professionals, as well as academics across energy and environmental economics, law and policy. Policy makers and practitioners in energy and climate policy will also benefit from its problem-solving approach. Contributors include: M.S. Andersen, E. Aydos, E. Belletti, M. Bisogno, C. Cámara Barroso, Q. Changbo, G. Chazhong, J. Dellatte, B. Fenfen, L. Feng, S. Geringer, E. Guglyuvatyy, T. Iliopoulos, T. Kawakatsu, D. Kortschak, K. Kratena, V. Kulmer, A. Lerch, I. Meyer, M. Molinos-Senante, M. Pizzol, S. Rudolph, K. Schlegelmilch, S. Seebauer, M. Sommer, C. Sotiriou, N.P. Stoianoff, H. Thodsen, A. Tomo, J. Tumpel, M. Villar Ezcurra, Z. Zachariadis, J.M.M. ZanocchiTrade Review'A very rich book, to be read by all those who suspect that environmental taxation can accelerate the transition toward a low-carbon society around the world.' --Christian de Perthuis, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, FranceTable of ContentsContents: FOREWORD PREFACE PART I ECONOMIC INCENTIVES FOR THE ENERGY TRANSITION 1. Price Support Schemes in the Service of the EU’s Low-Carbon Energy Transition Theodoros Iliopoulos 2. Tax Incentives for Photovoltaic Power Self-Consumption: An Analysis of the Spanish Experience Marta Villar Ezcurra and Carmen Cámara Barroso 3. The Brazilian Newly Inaugurated Net Metering System: A Case Study of a Win-Win Model for the Sustainable Development of the Country’s Energy Matrix Boosted by Renewable Sources José Maria McCall Zanocchi PART II ON THE ROAD TO LOW-CARBON TRANSPORT 4. VAT Rules for Passenger Travel by Air and by Train in the EU Julia Tumpel 5. Incentivizing Favourable Treatment of Electric Vehicles ⎯ Developing Best Practices in the EU from the Austrian Perspective Stefanie Geringer 6. “Ecobonus” and “Ecotax”: Two Recent Italian Fiscal Measures to Promote the Decarbonization in Vehicles Alessia Tomo PART III CHALLENGES TO LOW-CARBON STRATEGIES IN AUSTRALIA AND EAST ASIA 7. Australian Carbon Policy: Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards? Evgeny Guglyuvatyy and Natalie P. Stoianoff 8. May Link Prevail! Or: A Comparative Analysis of Lessons Learnt from (not) Linking Carbon Markets in Japan and Oceania Sven Rudolph, Elena Aydos, Takeshi Kawakatsu, Achim Lerch and Joseph Dellatte 9. Carbon Emission Reduction Effects of China’s Environmental Protection Tax – A Case Study Long Feng, Ge Chazhong, Bi Fenfen, Qin Changbo PART IV PROSPECTS FOR DECARBONISATION AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY 10. How to Reach Paris: A Comprehensive Long-Term Energy-Economy Scenario for Austria Ina Meyer, Mark Sommer and Kurt Kratena 11. The Importance of a Carbon Tax for Timely and Cost-effective Decarbonisation – A Case Study from Cyprus Chryso Sotiriou and Theodoros Zachariadis 12. Trigger or time fuse? An Empirical Framework for Detecting Change Points and Pace in the Diffusion of Low Carbon Technologies Veronika Kulmer, Dominik Kortschak and Sebastian Seebauer 13. The Potential of Reuse in the Circular Economy Strategy: In Search of a Legal Framework – The Italian Tax Perspective Marina Bisogno PART V RELEVANT LEGAL AND ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS FROM OTHER SUSTAINABILITY CONTEXTS 14. Environmental Taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Barriers and Policy Options Elena Belletti 15. Implications of Denmark’s Water Price Reform for Riverine and Coastal Surface Water Quality Massimo Pizzol, Maria Molinos-Senante, Hans Thodsen and Mikael Skou Andersen 16. Reduction of Biodiversity Harmful Subsidies and Compensatory Payments for Agricultural Pollutants in Germany Kai Schlegelmilch Index

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the impact and design of international environmental regimes which are established to preserve natural resources and reduce environmental degradation. The author addresses such regimes from both a conceptual and theoretical point of view as well as using comparative empirical evidence from issue areas such as marine pollution, acid rain, ozone layer depletion and global climate change. He examines specifically a number of controversial institutional issues in international environmental politics. Should, for instance, access to decision-processes be inclusive or exclusive in terms of non-governmental watchdogs? Similar choices and dilemmas exist with regard to decision-making rules, the role of the secretariat, the structuring of the agenda, the organization of the science-politics interface, and the design of verification and compliance mechanisms. Hence, he addresses real dilemmas faced by negotiators, in order to help formulate policies for achieving the most effective organization of international environmental institutions.This book will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in environmental political economy and institutions, and policymakers and practitioners involved in the negotiation process.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Analysing the Effectiveness and Institutional Design of International Environmental Regimes: The Conceptual Lenses 3. Increasing Concern and Improving Design: The Oslo and Paris Conventions on Marine Pollution in the North-East Atlantic 4. More ‘Discursive Diplomacy’ than ‘Dashing Design’? The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) 5. A Triumph for Institutional Incentives and Flexible Design? The Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on Ozone Layer Depletion 6. Combining Comparative and Case Study Evidence: Institutional Findings 7. Designing an Effective Climate Change Regime: A Task ‘Too Hot to Handle’? 8. Designing Effective Environmental Regimes: Launching the Three Conditional Ps (Problems, Phases, and Processes) References Index

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Book SynopsisThis important book examines the factors that influence economic growth and sustainable development in countries with a significant natural resource sector. It addresses the key issue of how to make the primary sector sufficiently productive to provide for investment in both itself and other sectors of the economy.Using individual country experiences as well as cross-country analyses, the authors highlight some of the successful policy measures which have been applied to economies with an abundance of natural resources. They also consider the management of natural resources and sustainable development from a local perspective. In conclusion, they argue that these types of economies need pro-active government policies, successful cooperation between private and public institutions and a gradual process of upgrading of skills and technology in order to achieve sustainable development.This book will be welcomed by development economists and natural resource economists as well as policymakers and planners in government and international agencies.Trade Review'. . . this volume would also be useful reading for postgraduate students of development economics or natural resources management.' -- Elizabeth Bennett, Progress in Development Studies'The issue as to what role the exploitation of natural resources plays in stimulating or retarding economic growth in developing countries is a critical one for the first decades of the new millennium. By examining the key factors determining the development prospects of resource-based economies, this collection of essays is making an important contribution to the debate over a key paradox of our times - the failure of resource-abundant poor countries to "catch up" with the growth rates of wealthier countries.' -- Edward B. Barbier, University of Wyoming, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I: Resource Endowments and the Options for Development Policy 2. Natural Resource Intensity and Economic Growth 3. Natural Resources, Human Resources and Export Composition Part II: National Experiences with Non-Renewable Natural Resources 4. The Transition from Rent-driven Growth to Skill-driven Growth 5. Managing Mineral Revenues in Botswana 6. Oil Resources in Iraq Part III: National Experiences with Renewable Natural Resources 7. Agricultural Development in Israel 8. From Primary Production to Resource-based Industrialization 9. Horticulture Development Policy in Kenya 10. The Forestry Sector in Ghana Part IV: Natural Resources Policy from a Local and Regional Perspective 11. Mining in Goa 12. The Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) in Zimbabwe Part V: Conclusions 13. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisEmissions trading has become a central feature of global efforts to control climate change. Its inclusion in the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change represents a victory for advocates of market-based instruments and builds upon twenty years of experience with trading schemes in the United States. However, the concept is controversial and attempts to introduce similar trading schemes in Europe have met with mixed results.This timely book provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of emissions trading including the lessons learnt, the problems faced and the prospects for its extended use. It includes case studies of trading schemes in the US and Europe, and studies of international trading under the European acid rain regime. Problems of practical implementation, especially institutional feasibility and political acceptability, are given particular attention. The prospects for the international trading of greenhouse gases following the Kyoto Protocol are assessed, together with the potential conflict between emissions trading and established regulatory traditions.Pollution for Sale will be of great interest to policymakers, practitioners, researchers and students of environmental policy.Trade Review'It is valuable reading for understanding emissions trading, and helps the reader visualize trading as a useful tool to control greenhouse gases.' -- Hyo-Sun Kim, Resources Policy'This book makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature by bringing together a set of essays that reflect on US experience and examine attempts to introduce trading programs in Europe. . . . The book is accessible to the broad readership for which it is intended. Academics as well as policymakers will find this book worthwhile reading.' -- Robert N. Stavins, Environment'The strength of Sorrell and Skea's analysis comes from the wide selection of topics covered by the papers, all adding valuable - often forgotten - experience. . . . I believe this book to be an excellent addition to the library of anyone who is involved in climate change. It raises awareness of previous experience, both successes and failures, particularly from within Europe, from which lessons should be drawn.' -- Christiaan Vrolijk, International Affairs'Pollution for Sale is a useful reference book for those with an interest in climate change and acidification issues and the potential contribution of economic instruments to effective environmental policy making. Each chapter is accessible to the non-specialist and there is enough academic rigour and further references to keep the specialists satisfied. Pollution for Sale deserves to sell well and widely to academics, students, environmental consultants and policymakers.' -- Rosalind Bark, Journal of Energy LiteratureTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The US Experience Part II: Introducing Trading in Europe Part III: Trading and National Regulatory Traditions Part IV: Scoping Studies: Water and Waste Part V: International Sulphur Trading Part VI: International Carbon Trading Index

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Book SynopsisMarket-based instruments are becoming the environmental management tool of choice and have provided a new perspective on the conventional wisdom about policy instruments. This book analyses the complexities of designing and implementing market-based instruments using case study experiences from the Nordic countries, Japan, France, The Netherlands, Germany and Britain, where a range of green taxes have been introduced.The contributors examine the role of political processes in designing, introducing and implementing green taxes and charges and analyse the extent to which political concerns complicate the approach favoured by environmental economists. The authors then focus on the implementation of market-based instruments to achieve environmental objectives and offer an ex-post evaluation of different countries' experiences with economic instruments.This volume brings together contributions from political scientists and environmental economists and will prove invaluable for academics, practitioners and policymakers interested in the experiences of countries where market-based instruments are well established.Trade Review'. . . the volume does provide the European perspective and frame of reference on environmental emissions trading of some value.' -- Peter Fusaro, The Journal of Energy and Development'Another in an important series of books contributing to the development of policies to combat environmental problems.' -- Aslib Book GuideTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Market-based Instruments in Environmental Policies Part II: Politics and Institutions 2. Designing and Introducing Green Taxes 3. Environmental Innovations from the Standpoint of Policy Analysis 4. What the Doctor Should Know Part III: MBIs in the Policy Process 5. Dialogue and Economic Efficiency 6. Efficiency and Fairness 7. Explaining why the Swedes but not the Danes Tax Fertilizers 8. Considering Feasibility and Efficiency Part IV: Implementation Problems of MBIs 9. The Limitations of Economic Instruments as Stimuli for Technical Change, Technological Change and Innovation 10. A Socio-economic Evaluation of the SOx Charge in Japan 11. Assessing the Efficiency of Economic Instruments 12. The Danish Waste Tax Index

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Book SynopsisThis original book presents a new basis for environmental policymaking: environmental networks. This framework graphically simplifies the analysis of environmental problems and emphasizes the spatial nature of economic activity and pollution dispersion.The book first discusses the foundations of environmental economics before going on to apply the environmental network approach to different firm structures. The authors then extend the analysis to incorporate multiple products and pollutants, the presence of transaction costs, the availability of investment in production technologies, and the issue of noncompliance versus compliance. They also apply the network approach to pollution caused by transportation and assess the success of permits in limiting this. The authors then formulate integrated models, analyzing the use of permits and taxes in firms, producers, and consumers, as well as transportation and trade routes. This book will be of interest to students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in environmental and transport economics.Table of ContentsContents: Part I: Introduction and Overview 1. Introduction 2. Foundations of Environmental Economics 3. Methodological Foundations Part II: Firms and the Environment 4. Pollution Permit Models for Single-Product, Single-Pollutant Firms 5. Multiproduct, Multipollutant Firms with Transaction Costs 6. Oligopolistic Markets and Technological Investments 7. Noncompliant Oligopolistic Firms: Statics and Dynamics Part III: Transportation and the Environment 8. Environmental Targets and Single-Modal Traffic Networks 9. Environmental Targets and Multimodal Traffic Networks 10. Emission Pollution Permits for Transportation Networks 11. Multimodal Network Permits: Compliance Versus Noncompliance Part IV: Spatial Price Networks and the Environment 12. Environmental Targets and Spatial Price Networks 13. Pollution Permits and Spatial Price Networks 14. Spatial Oligopolies and Pollution Permits Glossary

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Book SynopsisThis book comprehensively examines the performance of Bangladeshi agriculture in light of the most recent thinking on economic development and the environment. It both analyses the experience during the last five decades and discusses the major issues and challenges with special emphasis on the prospects for sustainable agricultural development in the future.The authors emphasise the importance of distributional aspects of environmental change and development in relation to employment and poverty and also focus on gender issues - often ignored in traditional theory.Many of the issues that arise in Bangladesh in connection with the agricultural-development nexus are not unique to the country. Parallels exist elsewhere in the developing world and as such Bangladesh is useful as an example from which to draw conclusions about much of the developing world. Environment and Agriculture in a Developing Economy will therefore be of particular interest to developmental and environmental economists as well as international organisations and NGOs committed to environment and development issues.Trade Review'It is amazing how much information the authors have managed to compile. . . The book is excellent, easy to read, concise presentation of changes and development in agriculture in Bangladesh during the course of the last 50 years. Its limitation to presenting only essentials will help the reader understand what has happened - and what not - over the last 50 years in agriculture in Bangladesh. It is an outstanding book, especially valuable for those readers who have neither the time for, nor interest in details and a must for people who go to Bangladesh for the first time and therefore need a brief introduction. . . the book is an important contribution to the topic of agriculture in Bangladesh and its development.' -- Frithjof Kuhnen, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture'For readers new to Bangladesh it provides an excellent introduction and guide to the country's natural resources, to trends in their use and to key issues arising. Early chapters provide a valuable and concise source of reference material, bringing together description, categorization and analysis of the complex characteristics of the county's physical environment, its agricultural production potential and risks.' -- L.E.D. Smith, Land Degradation and DevelopmentTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Bangladesh’s Economy, Agriculture and the Environment: Perspective and Issues 2. The Physical Environment of Bangladesh Agriculture: Soil, Land and Physical Constraints 3. Growth and Change in the Crop Sector 4. Overall Food Supply and Self-sufficiency: Some Observations 5. Ancillary Sectors within Agriculture: Livestock 6. Ancillary Sectors within Agriculture: Fisheries 7. Ancillary Sectors within Agriculture: Forestry 8. Agrarian Relations and Property Rights 9. Agrarian Change, Sustainable Resource Use and the Rural Environment in Bangladesh 10. Agricultural Research and Extension 11. Agricultural Growth and Rural Poverty 12. Conclusions, Challenges and Prospects Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe authors of this in-depth study describe the theory and techniques that can be applied to the specific case of valuing potable water provided by groundwater supplies. The theory and techniques can be extended to valuing drinking water provided by surface water supplies, and also to valuing alternative levels of water quality. The theory and case studies discussed in the book suggest that important determinants of the economic value of water quality include: the probability of contamination measured objectively and subjectively, information on actual levels of contamination in household water supplies, socioeconomic characteristics of households, and the extent to which the values of water quality people hold include non-use components. The case study results also suggest that empirical valuation results are sensitive to study design effects such as the particular statistical technique used to estimate mean or median values. These results suggest that estimating water quality values using benefits transfer techniques is problematic, but perhaps feasible with improved data and valuation models.Government agencies, private consulting firms and NGOs involved in water quality policy as well as academic researchers, professors and students will find this volume of theory, application and technique an invaluable reference.Trade Review'. . . the book is of immediate policy significance. Those developing ground water management strategies in the USA will find the value estimates useful.' -- Jeff Bennett, Australian Journal of Environmental ManagementTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Economic Value of Water Quality: Introduction and Conceptual Background 2. Determinants of Ground Water Quality Values: Georgia and Maine Case Studies 3. Information and the Valuation of Nitrates in Ground Water, Portage County, Wisconsin 4. Measuring the Value of Protecting Ground Water Quality from Nitrate Contamination in Southeastern Pennsylvania 5. Ground Water, Surface Water, and Wetlands Valuation in Ohio 6. Assessing the Accuracy of Benefits Transfers: Evidence From a Multi-Site Contingent Valuation Study of Ground Water Quality 7. Benefits Transfer: The Case of Nitrate Contamination in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Maine 8. A Preliminary Meta Analysis of Contingent Values for Ground Water Quality Revisited 9. Summary and Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisThis path-breaking book shows how green accounting can be compatible with ecological economics and how it can contribute to the implementation of sustainability. It explores the history and methodology of green accounting and describes the state-of-the-art construction of green accounts in individual countries.The authors first provide an overview of the history of national accounting and its place in the debate concerning sustainability. In particular they address the social role that accounts play, the relationship of national accounts to economic traditions, and the relationship between green national accounts and ecological economics. They go on to describe issues related to the history of green accounts and the methodologies adopted, and discuss the Dutch experience with the NAMEA system, the use of input-output analysis in national accounting and the conceptual issues raised by green accounting. Finally, the authors show how green accounts are being constructed and used in various countries, by both national governments and corporate businesses. The book features new case studies of green national accounting in Europe, Africa and Canada, the UK experience in establishing green accounts and the process of greening business accounts.Greening the Accounts will be required reading for scholars of ecological economics, environmental studies and business and national accounting.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Part I: The History of National Accounts 2. The Social and Political Roles of National Accounting 3. Roots of Green Accounting in the Classical and Neoclassical Schools 4. Sustainability, Ecological Economics and Green Accounting Part II: Green Accounting as a Policy Instrument 5. Indicators and Accounts of Sustainable Development: the NAMEA Approach 6. Formal Models and Practical Measurement for Greening the Accounts 7. The Magic Triangle of Input–Output Tables 8. Alternative Green Accounting Methodologies Part III: Uses of Green Accounting 9. Case Studies: Uses of Green Accounting 10. Constructing Green Accounts 11. Corporate Environmental Accounting: Accounting for Environmentally Sustainable Profits 12. Setting the Agenda for Green Accounting in the 21st Century Index

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Book SynopsisThe link between trade and the environment has focused on two broad issues: how changing trade regimes have affected the environment and how stricter environmental regulations have affected trade. The answers are of particular importance to developing and transition countries where the relationship between trade and the environment has a major impact. This unique book, based on eleven case studies undertaken by research institutes in developing countries with the support of UNCTAD and UNDP, provides detailed empirical evidence from Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Malaysia, The Philippines, Poland, Thailand, Turkey and Zimbabwe. The central questions addressed are: has the international programme of trade liberalization affected the environment negatively? are stricter environmental regulations in both developed and developing countries having an effect on exports and imports and how can these effects be addressed? what impacts, if any, result from differences in environmental standards between richer and poorer countries? what impacts have multilateral environmental agreements had on trade flows between developed and developing countries what impacts are firms' voluntary measures to protect the environment having on the export flows from developing and transition countries? The book provides a wealth of information and shows a wide difference of outcomes from country to country, allowing the authors to draw an interesting set of conclusions. It will be useful for students and researchers in environmental and international economics and will be essential reading for policymakers in government and non-governmental organizations.Trade Review'The main contribution of the volume by Jha et al is the wealth of empirical material presented on the case study countries. Until this book was published, there was little material available on the impact of trade on the environment of specific developing countries.' -- Rhys Jenkins, Journal of Development Studies'This book provides a very useful and welcome contribution to the understanding of the dynamic relationship between liberalized trade and environmental protection.' -- Edith Brown Weiss, EnvironmentTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Overview and Lessons Learnt 2. Environmental Policy, Market Access and Competitiveness: The Experience of Developing Countries 3. Policy Instruments in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Experience of Developing Countries 4. Brazil 5. China 6. Colombia 7. Costa Rica 8. India 9. Malaysia 10. The Philippines 11. Poland 12. Thailand 13. Turkey 14. Zimbabwe 15. Conclusions and Guidelines for Further Work Index

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Book SynopsisInternational environmental threats have commanded widespread attention since the late 1960s. A number of unprecedented environmental disasters have galvanized public concern, and have reached the international political agenda in part through the activities of new environmental social movements in the industrialized countries.Environment in the New Global Economy is designed as a reference source for both students, researchers and policymakers concerned with the political dimension of international environmental problems. Peter Haas has selected those previously published articles which are seminal in the development of this new field and which have either generated widespread debate or represent a clear application of major approaches to the understanding of these new issues. He has also provided an authoritative introduction to complement his selection.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Analytic Approaches to the IPE of the Environment Acknowledgements Introduction Peter M. Haas PART I WHAT IS “THE ENVIRONMENT?” 1. Clive Ponting (1990), ‘Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Development’ 2. Robert W. Kates, B.L. Turner II and William C. Clark (1990), ‘The Great Transformation’ 3. William C. Clark (1989), ‘The Human Ecology of Global Change’ PART II TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS 4. H. Scott Gordon (1954), ‘The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery’ 5. Garrett Hardin (1968), ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ 6. Susan Jane Buck Cox (1985), ‘No Tragedy of the Commons’ 7. David Feeny, Fikret Berkes, Bonnie J. McCay and James M. Acheson (1990), ‘The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-two Years Later’ 8. Elinor Ostrom (2001), ‘Reformulating the Commons’ PART III POWER AND LEADERSHIP 9. Daniel Deudney (2000), ‘Geopolitics as Theory: Historical Security Materialism’ 10. George F. Kennan (1970), ‘To Prevent a World Wasteland: A Proposal’ 11. Matthew Connelly and Paul Kennedy (1994), ‘Must it be the Rest Against the West?’ PART IV INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 12. Detlef Sprinz and Tapani Vaahtoranta (1994), ‘The Interest-based Explanation of International Environmental Policy’ 13. Oran R. Young (1989), ‘The Politics of International Regime Formation: Managing Natural Resources and the Environment’ 14. Oran R. Young (1991), ‘Political Leadership and Regime Formation: On the Development of Institutions in International Society’ 15. Marc A. Levy, Peter M. Haas and Robert O. Keohane (1992), ‘Institutions for the Earth: Promoting International Environmental Protection’ PART V RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 16. Joao Augusto de Araujo Castro (1972), ‘Environment and Development: The Case of the Developing Countries’ 17. Johan Galtung (1973), ‘“The Limits to Growth” and Class Politics’ 18. Wolfgang Sachs (1991), ‘Environment and Development: The Story of a Dangerous Liaison’ PART VI DOMESTIC POLITICS 19. Robert L. Paarlberg (1999), ‘Lapsed Leadership: U.S. International Environmental Policy Since Rio’ 20. Elisabeth R. DeSombre (1995), ‘Baptists and Bootleggers for the Environment: The Origins of the United States Unilateral Sanctions’ 21. William Ascher (2000), ‘Understanding Why Governments in Developing Countries Waste Natural Resources’ 22. Ruth Greenspan Bell (2000), ‘Building Trust: Laying a Foundation for Environmental Regulation in the Former Soviet Bloc’ 23. Riley E. Dunlap and Angela G. Mertig (1997), ‘Global Environmental Concern: An Anomaly for Postmaterialism’ PART VII NGOs AND CIVIL SOCIETY 24. Sheila Jasanoff (1997), ‘NGOs and the Environment: From Knowledge to Action’ 25. Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink (1999), ‘Transnational Advocacy Networks in International and Regional Politics’ PART VIII ECOLOGICAL IDEAS A Doctrines and Their Consequences 26. Harold and Margaret Sprout (1972), ‘The Ecological Viewpoint – and Others’ 27. Frederick H. Buttell, Ann P. Hawkins and Alison G. Power (1990), ‘From Limits to Growth to Global Change: Constraints and Contradictions in the Evolution of Environmental Science and Ideology’ B Epistemic Communities 28. Peter M. Haas (1999), ‘Social Constructivism and the Evolution of Multilateral Environmental Governance’ 29. Peter M. Haas and Ernst B. Haas (1995), ‘Learning to Learn: Improving International Governance’ 30. Peter M. Haas (1989), ‘Do Regimes Matter? Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution Control’ C Critical Constructivism 31. Ken Conca (1994), ‘Rethinking the Ecology-Sovereignty Debate’ 32. Eric Laferrière (1996), ‘Emancipating International Relations Theory: An Ecological Perspective’ 33. Karen T. Litfin (1997), ‘Sovereignty in World Ecopolitics’ 34. Peter Doran (1995), ‘Earth, Power, Knowledge: Towards a Critical Global Environmental Politics’ Name Index Volume II: Applications Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I SOCIAL CHOICE/POLITICAL ECONOMY 1. Ronald Coase (1960), ‘The Problem of Social Cost’ 2. Giulio M. Gallarotti (1995), ‘It Pays to be Green: The Managerial Incentive Structure and Environmentally Sound Strategies’ 3. Kenneth A. Oye and James H. Maxwell (1994), ‘Self-interest and Environmental Management’ 4. Ronald B. Mitchell (1994), ‘Regime Design Matters: Intentional Oil Pollution and Treaty Compliance’ 5. Scott Barrett (1990), ‘The Problem of Global Environmental Protection’ 6. Jennifer Clapp (1998), ‘The Privatization of Global Environmental Governance: ISO 14000 and the Developing World’ 7. Kathryn Harrison (1999), ‘Talking with the Donkey. Cooperative Approaches to Environmental Protection’ 8. Peter Dauvergne (1997), ‘A Model of Sustainable International Trade in Tropical Timber’ PART II SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DOCTRINES 9. W.I. Vernadsky (1944), ‘Problems of Biogeochemistry’ 10. World Commission on Environment and Development (1987), ‘From One Earth to One World: An Overview by the World Commission on Environment and Development’ 11. Sharachchandra M. Lélé (1991), ‘Sustainable Development: A Critical Review’ 12. Robert Costanza, Herman E. Daly and Joy A. Bartholomew (1991), ‘Goals, Agenda, and Policy Recommendations for Ecological Economics’ PART III FREE TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 13. Herman E. Daly (2000), ‘Globalization and Its Discontents’ 14. Eric Neumayer (2000), ‘Trade and the Environment: A Critical Assessment and Some Suggestions for Reconciliation’ 15. Gene M. Grossman and Alan B. Krueger (1995), ‘Economic Growth and the Environment’ PART IV ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL SECURITY 16. Jessica Tuchman Mathews (1989), ‘Redefining Security’ 17. Thomas F. Homer-Dixon (1994), ‘Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict: Evidence from Cases’ 18. Daniel Deudney (1990), ‘The Case Against Linking Environmental Degradation and National Security’ PART V COMPLIANCE, IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS 19. Arild Underdal (1992), ‘The Concept of Regime “Effectiveness”’ 20. Ronald B. Mitchell (1993), ‘Compliance Theory: A Synthesis’ 21. David G. Victor and Eugene B. Skolnikoff (1999), ‘Translating Intent into Action: Implementing Environmental Commitments’ 22. Harold K. Jacobson and Edith Brown Weiss (1995), ‘Strengthening Compliance with International Environmental Accords: Preliminary Observations from a Collaborative Project’ 23. Peter M. Haas (1998), ‘Compliance with EU Directives: Insights from International Relations and Comparative Politics’ 24. Arild Underdal (1998), ‘Explaining Compliance and Defection: Three Models’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisIncreasingly, natural environments are being changed by our activities, and potential human uses of natural resources are often incompatible with environmental protection goals. Travel cost models supply economic information to estimate values in environmental decision-making that otherwise are not available. In the absence of this information, non-market benefits are likely to be ignored in the decision-making process. An important question faced by policymakers centres around the appropriate mix of policies to provide a balance in the use of environments in their natural state versus commodity production. Appropriate analyses of rival policies regarding land usage depend on the availability of data on benefits and costs. This book provides indispensable guidance to the TCM (Travel Cost Method) methodology and its uses, as well as highlighting areas where further development is necessary.The book presents a self-contained treatment of TCM along with a wide range of applications to natural resource and environmental policy questions. It will be an indispensable tool for policymakers in both government and NGOs, natural resource site managers as well as academics and researchers.Trade Review'. . . Ward and Beal have produced a volume that will be a useful addition to the collection of environmental and resource economists who are - or want to be - involved in the estimation of non-market values.' -- Jeff Bennett, The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics'The book has a broad scope and is fairly comprehensive in its coverage of different methodological approaches to measurement of travel costs and their relationship to demand for recreation. . . Ward and Beal's book should be easily accessible to readers with either an elementary knowledge of economics or with serious quantitative training from other disciplines such as biology or engineering.' -- Phil Simmons, Economic Record'Frank Ward and Diana Beal set out to provide a self-contained treatment of the travel cost model for readers with little formal training in statistics or economics. The population that they anticipate serving includes policy analysts, environmental scientists and natural resource managers who need to make informed decisions about land use. This niche has long been waiting to be filled and Ward and Beal have done an excellent job of filling it. The authors have produced a highly readable volume that illuminates the important facets of travel cost models in a clear and understandable presentation. . . . The bibliography will also be a very useful reference for researchers and policy analysts alike. Overall, the authors have clearly succeeded in providing a readable and informative manual on the subject of travel cost models and their use in valuing changes in environmental access or amenities. In doing so, they have made travel cost models an even more valuable tool than they have been in the past, by aiding the end-users of these models in understanding what the models measure and how they are constructed. Ward and Beal are to be congratulated on their fine work. This volume will be a valuable addition to any resource manager's library.' -- Catherine Kling, European Review of Agricultural Economics'Travel cost recreation demand modelling has come "of age" thanks to Ward and Beal. Their book provides ready access to this method and highlights emerging research issues. By helping us to understand the intricate nuances of the travel cost methodology for valuing non-market amenities, they have "created" a valuable resource for practitioner and student alike. There is no doubt that it will have a lasting effect on the literature.' -- V. Kerry Smith, Arizona State University, US'This book is the A to Z of the travel cost method. It is all that you will ever need to know to set up a successful travel cost model, complete it, and interpret its results for policy or resource pricing. An authoritative source on all aspects of travel cost models, from economic theory to sampling design and statistical analysis, it is an invaluable guide to all those contemplating using this method. The manual allows you to navigate through the complexities of travel cost analysis with ease; and provides new perspectives and ideas that even established travel cost researchers may not have encountered.' -- Kenneth G. Willis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Support for Environmental Policy Decisions 2. History and Scope of TCM 3. Demand Theory and TCM 4. Benefits Theory and TCM 5. Design Principles for TCMs 6. Design and Administration of Surveys 7. Measurement of the Variables 8. Data Management and Analysis 9. Developing and Maintaining Expertise Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAlistair Ulph has made a major contribution to the literature on trade-environment issues. This impressive book gathers together a selection of his most influential papers covering the last eight years, paying special attention to strategic environmental policy and its implications.The book addresses the often expressed concern that globalization and trade may have a detrimental effect on the environment. Drawing on the tools of modern trade theory, Alistair Ulph argues that even if governments seek to use their environmental policies to secure strategic trade advantages, this need not imply they will necessarily set too weak environmental policies and regulations. The extent to which governments set these environmental policies to secure competitive trade advantage is also examined.Environmental and trade economists, policy advisors to national governments and international trade and environment agencies, will find this book of immense value in understanding the links between trade and environment policies.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The Issues – and An Overview Part II: Strategic Environmental Policy Part III: Strategic Environmental Policy and Plant Location Part IV: Policy Implications Index

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Book SynopsisMaking the Environment Count brings together, in one accessible volume, an outstanding selection of Alan Randall's essays published over the past 30 years. It explores ideas on making the environment count from a conceptual perspective and addresses a range of topics pertinent to the study of environmental economics including: the limits of markets in reflecting environmental quality, and the implications of this for policy and institutional design cost-benefit analysis, with emphasis on its welfare-theoretic foundations, and its ability to reflect the public's demand for environmental quality conservation, biodiversity and sustainability developments in methodology the ethical foundations of public policy conceptual foundations of empirical methods of valuing the environment By improving access to Alan Randall's many important contributions, this volume makes a significant addition to the literature and will be welcomed by environmental economists.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Market Failure Part II: Benefit Cost Analysis Part III: Sustainability and Biodiversity Part IV: Methodology Index

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Book SynopsisThis major annual publication is an authoritative state-of-the-art survey of current issues in environmental and resource economics written by the leading academics in the field.The discipline of environmental and resource economics has undergone a rapid evolution over the past three decades with the early literature focusing mainly on valuation and the design of policy instruments to correct externalities and encourage optimal resource exploitation. In the past few years, the field has broadened its scope by making numerous links with other disciplines in economics as well as the natural and physical sciences. As a result there has been an explosion in the literature which has made it increasingly difficult to keep up with developments in the field. The Yearbook cuts through this by focusing on the principal issues of current interest. In this edition, experts in their specific field consider the problems of the monitoring and enforcement of environmental policy and examine possible voluntary approaches to environmental protection. Topics examined include policies to counter tropical deforestation, the analysis of transportation and environmental policy, models of climate change control, environmental labelling and the use of cost-benefit analysis.The Yearbook will provide economists, scholars and practitioners working in environmental and resource economics with a comprehensive overview of the up-to-date issues written by the leading international scholars.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Transportation and Environmental Policy 2. Monitoring and Enforcement of Environmental Policy 3. Economic Aspects of Environmental Labelling 4. Integrated Assessment Models for Climate Change Control 5. Tropical Deforestation: Issues and Policies 6. Taking Benefits and Costs Seriously 7. Voluntary Approaches to Environmental Protection Index

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Book SynopsisRapid economic growth in China has been fueled by, and continues to stimulate, a huge demand for power, posing significant challenges to local, regional and international atmospheric environments. This timely book assesses this environmental risk and considers the efficient design of environmental policy in the development of new coal-fired plants in China.Coal-fired electricity generation currently accounts for about 80 per cent of China's power sector and so it is vital to establish how new plants can be designed to minimize the harmful environmental effects of this type of power generation. In designing pollution control policies in China there is a need to identify appropriate policies for a fast developing economy where incomes, attitudes and technology are also rapidly evolving. Therese Feng explores the use of societal values in developing environmental policies and presents an integrated assessment which carefully characterizes the nature and value of environmental damage using the model of a new coal-fired power plant. Finally, the author defines an environmental policy which is sensitive to local variables and transboundary effects.Controlling Air Pollution in China will be of interest to energy and environmental economists and policymakers.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I: The Integrated Assessment Model 2. Power Plant Emissions and Pollution Control Strategies 3. Transport and Fate of Coal-Fired Power Plant Emissions 4. The Nature and Valuation of Air Pollutant Effects Part II: Applications of the Integrated Assessment and Efficient Policy Design 5. Integrated Assessment of an Uncontrolled Coal-Fired Plant in China and the Choice of Efficient Pollution Control Techniques 6. Assessment of Uncertainty in the Integrated Assessment and Policy Analysis 7. Efficient Pollution Control Over Space 8. Efficient Pollution Control Over Time 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe impact of transport on the environment is a major issue of worldwide concern. This important new book presents state-of-the-art contributions on spatial and technological aspects of transport in relation to environmental degradation, together with analysis of sustainable transport policy.The first part of the book focuses on policy analysis. A sustainable transport strategy should include all elements of the transport sector, transcend the usual time and space constraints and address economic and equity concerns, in addition to the environmental targets it is often designed to meet. The second part concerns technological issues. The authors do not simply describe technological possibilities, but are instead concerned with broader issues such as scenario development and implementation strategies. The third part concerns spatial aspects, including an increasing spatial level in discussing sustainable transport issues, from the local and urban level to global aspects of sustainable transport. Transport and Environment thus offers a multi-disciplinary perspective on the multifaceted field of sustainable transport.The distinguished array of contributors and broad scope of the work will ensure this book is essential reading for scholars of transport and environmental economics, policymakers and those involved in urban and transport planning.Trade Review'The book is enjoyable and interesting to read and in each individual chapter comprehensive with useful references to the subject.' -- Moshe Givoni, European Journal of Transport and InfrastructureTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Policy Aspects 1. Transport and Environment: From Policy Measures to Sustainability Notions and Back 2. Sustainable Freight Transport for the Netherlands: An Evaluation of a Policy Analysis Study 3. From Policy Measures to Policy Packages: A Spatially, Temporally and Institutionally Differentiated Approach 4. Are Current Air Transport Policies Consistent with a Sustainable Environment? Part II: Technological Aspects 5. Traffic and Transport in the Twenty-first Century: Market Chances of New Drive Concepts for Land-based Transport 6. Electric Vehicles: A Socio-technical Scenario Study 7. Technological Innovations in Transport: An Implementation Strategy for Underground Freight Transport 8. Sustainable Underground Urban Goods Distribution Networks Part III: Spatial Aspects 9. Public Transport-oriented Urban Design: Plans and Possibilities 10. Effects of the Dutch Compact City Policy on Travel Behaviour 11. Land-use Impacts on Passenger Transport: A Comparison of Dutch Scenario Studies 12. International Transport and the Environment: An Assessment of Trends and Driving Forces Index

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Book SynopsisIn this controversial book Herman Daly, a leading commentator on the environment, offers lively criticism of existing work on ecological economics and the economics of ecology. The theme throughout the book is about changes in perspective, attitudes and policies required to avoid uneconomic growth - that is, the impoverishment that results when the environmental and social costs of growth exceed the benefits.Key issues addressed include: growth economics misunderstandings of thermodynamics economic development and population globalization money humans in the ecosystem. >This major new book will be of interest to economists, ecologists, environmentalists, public policy scholars and activists as well as social philosophers.Trade Review'This book will be essential reading for anyone who seeks answers to resolve the traditionally recognized conflicts between the economy and the environment. The answers this work proposes are not simple, but are well presented and necessary.' -- Bernardo Aguilar-Gonzalez, The Quarterly Review of Biology'Daly's book is an excellent and illustrating confrontation of the two important paradigms of scientific economics. It leaves the reader with the conviction that the still prevailing paradigm of neo-classical economics will have to be replaced if sustainability is to become a real objective of economic policy.' -- Gunther Weinschenck, Quarterly Journal of International AgricultureTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: On the Roots of Error in Growth Economics Part II: On Some Specific Errors in Growth Economics Part III: On Economists’ Misunderstanding of Thermodynamics Part IV: On Economic Development and Population Part V: On Globalization as Growth Economics’ Last Gasp Part VI: On Money Part VII: On Purpose Index

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Book SynopsisThis major annual publication is an authoritative state-of-the-art survey of current issues in environmental and resource economics written by the leading academics in the field.The discipline of environmental and resource economics has undergone a rapid evolution over the past three decades with the early literature focusing mainly on valuation, and the design of policy instruments to correct externalities and encourage optimal resource exploitation. In the past few years, the field has broadened its scope by making numerous links with other disciplines in economics as well as the natural and physical sciences. As a result there has been an explosion in the literature which has made it increasingly difficult to keep up with developments in the field. TheYearbook cuts through this by focusing on the principal issues of current interest. Considering both macroeconomic and microeconomic issues, this edition deals with environmental policy in economies in transition, green accounting, the impact of macroeconomic policies on the environment, the economics of fisheries management reactions to environmental policy within firms as well as means of incorporating uncertainty in environmental analysis and policy.The Yearbook will provide economists working in environmental and resource economics, as well as those who are interested in knowing more about the field, with a comprehensive overview of the main issues written by leading international scholars.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Discounting and Environmental Management 2. Countrywide Policies and Sustainable Development 3. The Firm, its Routines and the Environment 4. Environmental Policy in Economies in Transition 5. The Economics of Fisheries Management: A Survey 6. Green Accounting: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know? 7. The Economics of Global Environmental Risks

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Book SynopsisThis extraordinary book provides a critical review of the work of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen in conventional economics, environmental economics and methodology. Particular attention is paid to the role of thermodynamics in Georgescu-Roegen's economics.Trade Review'Georgescu-Roegen was a truly great economist . . . This welcome exposition of his major ideas by Beard and Lozada should help economists understand Georgescu, both the revolutionary boldness and originality of many of his ideas and the careful logic with which he developed them. I believe Beard and Lozada have done an excellent job, both of selection and of exposition . . . My hope is that this book will do for Georgescu's ideas what Alvin Hansen did for the ideas of John Maynard Keynes with his A Guide to Keynes published back in 1953. In my view Georgescu's intellectual contribution will be even greater than that of Keynes.' -- From the foreword by Herman Daly, University of Maryland, College Park, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Herman E. Daly 1. Introduction 2. Nicholas Georgesçu-Roegen: A Scholarly Refugee 3. Georgesçu-Roegen’s Epistemology and Economic Methodology 4. Georgesçu-Roegen and “Normal Science” 5. An Economist’s Primer on Thermodynamics 6. Thermodynamics and Georgesçu-Roegen’s Economics 7. Bioeconomics 8. Conclusion Bibliography References Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Dictionary is an important reference tool for all those interested in environmental science and environmental studies. Written in a clear and accessible style, the dictionary includes over three thousand up-to-date entries, all accompanied by a detailed yet straightforward definition covering all aspects of the subject.The book also includes three primers, which will bridge the gap between each discipline covered. These consist of introductions to environmental economics, international environmental problems and environmental systems, dynamics and modelling. Another unique feature is the inclusion of an appendix which lists and describes the world's major international environmental agreements.This Dictionary with its primers and appendices will prove immensely useful to all students and scholars of environmental science and studies.Trade Review'I would recommend the current book to schools and public libraries.' -- John Goodier, Reference Reviews'This Dictionary offers a much needed transdisciplinary reference presenting clear and concise meanings for disciplinary jargon and the specialised uses of certain familiar terms in the context of environmental economics, resource sciences and policy analysis.' -- Thilak Mallawaarachchi, The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics'A Dictionary of Environmental Economics, Science and Policy offers a reference that bridges the gap between the disciplines of environmental economics, environmental sciences and environmental studies. . . . This dictionary if a valuable reference source for professionals in natural resource and environmental management and for non-specialists.' -- Fakhry A. Assaad, Environmental Geology'Definitions are concise and readable even for readers with limited knowledge of the field. . . . Libraries serving environmental studies departments will want to add this unique, useful titles to their collections.' -- J.B. Napp, Choice'At last, three authors who have recognised the need for economic literacy among environmental scientists and scientific literacy for economists. Quentin Grafton and his colleagues offer a wide-ranging, ambitious, but highly successful guide to the ever-expanding terminology that any modern-day environmental researcher and reader needs. One to keep on the reference shelf.' -- David Pearce, University College London, UK'In a field like environmental studies that cuts across so many diverse disciplines, scholars and students really need a basic reference like this Dictionary<\/i>. It provides concise definitions of a myriad of terms from economics, environmental science, and the policy arena. And even more, it also provides a set of excellent primers for environmental economics itself and some related issues. It is an invaluable reference.' -- Wallace E. Oates, University of Maryland and Resources for the Future, US'This book is a very useful reference for professionals in natural resource and environmental management. . . . I recommend that practitioners get a copy for their own reference and that courses in this area adopt the book as a supplemental text.'- From the foreword by Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Preface Introduction • Economics for the Environment: A Primer • International Environmental Problems: A Primer • Environmental Systems, Dynamics and Modeling: A Primer • Annotated References: A Starting Point • Dictionary of Environmental Economics, Science, and Policy • References • Appendix 1: Greek Alphabet Appendix 2: Roman Numerals Appendix 3: Système Internationale Units Appendix 4: Prefixes of the Système Internationale (SI) Appendix 5: Common Abbreviations Appendix 6: Geological Time Appendix 7: Selected Environmental Treaties and Conventions

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Book SynopsisThis timely book deals with the problem of pricing passenger and freight transportation within Europe. The contributors argue that current legislation affecting pricing and regulation is increasingly less successful in dealing with market failures and externalities such as congestion, air pollution, noise and accidents. Technological progress and greater European co-operation has brought increased scope for the reform of transport policies.Reforming Transport Pricing in the European Union includes an economic diagnosis of the pricing problem, proposals for new pricing and regulation structures together with a quantified assessment of the likely impact for several European cities and countries. The effects of traffic volume, cost, and overall economic welfare are computed for all forms of passenger and freight transport in urban and non-urban areas. The book analyses various alternative policies including combinations of higher fuel excise, alternative parking policies, cordon pricing, electronic road pricing and emissions regulation. The research is based on a set of formal models which facilitate the analysis and comparison of results. The range of policies studied and the variety of methodologies employed, will ensure that this book will be of great benefit to European and national transport policymakers, transport economists and transport consultants.Trade Review'. . . a useful handbook of state-of-the-art modeling of urban road pricing.' -- Kenneth D. Boyer, Transportation JournalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Principles Part II: Modelling Part III: External and Internal Costs Part IV: Case Studies Index

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Book SynopsisThis major annual publication is an authoritative state-of-the-art survey of current issues in environmental and resource economics written by the leading academics in the field.The discipline of environmental and resource economics has undergone a rapid evolution over the past three decades with the early literature focusing mainly on valuation and the design of policy instruments to correct externalities and encourage optimal resource exploitation. In the past few years, the field has broadened its scope by making numerous links with other disciplines in economics as well as the natural and physical sciences. As a result there has been an explosion in the literature which has made it increasingly difficult to keep up with developments in the field. The Yearbook cuts through this by focusing on the principal issues of current interest. In this edition, experts in their specific field consider the problems of the monitoring and enforcement of environmental policy and examine possible voluntary approaches to environmental protection. Topics examined include policies to counter tropical deforestation, the analysis of transportation and environmental policy, models of climate change control, environmental labelling and the use of cost-benefit analysis.The Yearbook will provide economists, scholars and practitioners working in environmental and resource economics with a comprehensive overview of the up-to-date issues written by the leading international scholars.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Transportation and Environmental Policy 2. Monitoring and Enforcement of Environmental Policy 3. Economic Aspects of Environmental Labelling 4. Integrated Assessment Models for Climate Change Control 5. Tropical Deforestation: Issues and Policies 6. Taking Benefits and Costs Seriously 7. Voluntary Approaches to Environmental Protection Index

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Book SynopsisThis modern and comprehensive book offers a broad survey of economic growth theory, with special emphasis on the impact of natural resources on long-term development. The book begins with the standard growth models of the 1950s and 1960s and extends its analysis to the so-called 'new' growth theory, in which the long-term growth rate of an economy becomes an endogenous variable. The impact of positive spillovers, human capital formation, public services and innovation on the growth process are carefully studied. Using models and empirical illustration, the author evaluates to what extent growth theory is able to explain the huge international differences in living standards prevailing in the world today. The theoretical foundation is then used to consider the issue of sustainable growth under stricter environmental regulation. Growth Theory and Sustainable Development shows that the understanding of growth theory is an important key to predict the sustainability of long-term development, making it required reading for students of economic development and environmental economics.Trade Review'Bretschger's book is useful for readers who have a relatively short time to digest essential ideas of modern development of neo-classical and endogenous growth theories and to bridge the gap between economic sustainability and environmental issues. . . Growth Theory and Sustainable Development is a meaningful addition to the growth economics and environmental economics literatures. The author surveys comprehensively the impact of positive spillovers, human capital formation, public services, and innovation on the growth process.' -- H. Park, Journal of Economics / Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie'This is a very impressive volume destined to become a standard treatise in the latest attempts to combine growth theory with the issue of sustainable development.' -- G.K. Shaw, The Economic Journal'Bretschger's pioneering textbook shows that endogenous growth theory provides a powerful framework for the analysis of sustainable development. It illustrates clearly and simply how the new theory can be used to bring diverse social, institutional and environmental factors back into mainstream economics.' -- Peter Howitt, Ohio State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Long-Term Development in Perspective 2. Early Approaches to Formal Growth Theory 3. The Neo-Classical Growth Model 4. Intertemporal Optimisation 5. Positive Spillovers 6. Endogenous Growth with Different Capital Stocks 7. Research and Development 8. Open Economy 9. Extensions 10. Sustainable Development 11. Natural Resources 12. Achieving Sustainability Index

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Book SynopsisThe substantial and growing interest in the monetary valuation of preferences for environmental improvement, and against environmental damage, has prompted a demand for case studies illustrating methodologies and applications of valuation techniques. In this book, the first of two volumes, the authors provide detailed case studies of valuation techniques that have been used in developing countries. They demonstrate that valuation works and that it can yield significant insights into policy-relevant issues regarding conservation and economic development.The authors address a whole range of environmental issues under the broad themes of water and air quality, biological diversity and forest functions. The economic approaches covered include contingent valuation, hedonic property prices, travel cost methodologies and benefits transfer. They also go on to look at the idea of extending national accounts to reflect changes in environmental assets. Examples of the varied and interesting case studies include valuing improvements to sanitation in Malaysia, the value of visits to game parks in South Africa and tropical forest values in Mexico. They highlight how valuation techniques can be applied, often with limited resources, to critical development issues.Academics and practitioners of environmental economics will draw great value from this unique and original work, as will the many multilateral and bilateral aid agencies. The book will also prove a valuable addition to graduate and undergraduate courses in environmental economics where there is a need for case material.Trade Review'. . . this is a very valuable addition to the repertoire of knowledge in discerning the true cost of human activities to the environment.' -- Tunde Agbola, University of Ibadan, Nigeria'This book is a unique resource for a wide-ranging audience, including academics, students, and anyone in the field who might be required to make an assessment of environ-mental values. As the Lonely Planet guides have become the Bible for travelers, this will be the Bible for environmental economists in developing countries. And for those in industrialised countries? There is a second volume to come that will deal with the developed world.' -- Jill Windle, Australian Journal of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Air Quality, Water Supply and Water Quality Part II: Valuing Biological Diversity Part III: Valuing Forest Functions Index

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative book presents the results of important new research into the economics of biodiversity conservation in sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors offer case studies of the economic causes of biodiversity loss in a range of ecosystem types - wetlands, montane forests, tropical moist forests, semi-arid savannas and lakes - and discuss the policy options for biodiversity conservation in each case. They also provide an in-depth analysis of the environmental consequences of policy reform at the macro- and micro- levels and offer practical recommendations for the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity.The Economics of Biodiversity Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa will prove invaluable to scholars and policymakers working within the areas of environmental economics, environmental science and sustainable development.Table of ContentsContents: Preamble 1. The Biodiversity Convention and Biodiversity Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa Part I: The Microeconomics of Biodiversity Loss: Case Studies from Nigeria, Malawi, Kenya and Namibia 2. The Value of Biodiversity in the Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands of Northern Nigeria 3. The Loss of Biodiversity in Aquatic Ecosystems 4. Costs and Benefits of Protected Areas 5. Biodiversity Conservation and Land-Use Options in Semi-Arid Lands Part II: Macroeconomics and Biodiversity Loss: Structural Adjustment, Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in Ghana 6. Forestry, Deforestation and Biodiversity in Ghana 7. The Structural Adjustment Programme and Deforestation in Ghana 8. Estimating the Biodiversity Effects of Structural Adjustment in Ghana 9. Policies for Biodiversity Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa Index

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Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the twenty-first century, a growing struggle has arisen between those who would like to repeal existing environmental policy and those who would like to see greater environmental protection. On both sides, however, many of the arguments remain grounded in ideology. This book attempts to moderate the conflict by exploring methods to accurately measure and assess the effectiveness of environmental policies.Does Environmental Policy Work? examines our ability to assess the impact of environmental policies on the environment in particular, and on social welfare in general. The distinguished authors explore the theory of assessment, concentrating primarily on a conceptual examination of the evaluation process. They extend existing tools and identify alternative indicators and methods of appraisal. The focus then shifts to the use of these tools in real-world policy situations by applying them to a series of case studies from Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Although the authors base their assessment predominantly on economic efficiency, they also pay due regard to other interdisciplinary approaches and decision-making criteria.This comprehensive exploration of the theory and practice of environmental assessment will be of great interest to scholars of environmental economics, ecological economics and environmental science. The book will also provide guidance and direction for practitioners in the fields of environmental policy and management on how to effectively measure the outcomes of environmental policies.Table of ContentsContents: Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction Part II: Theory 2. Improving Environmental Impact Assessment Through Outcomes Valuation: Experience from Asia 3. Trade-off Based Indicators of Environmental Quality: An Environmental Analog to GDP 4. Environmental Project Evaluation in Developing Countries: Valuing the Environment as Input Part III: Applications 5. Environmental Outcomes Assessment: Using Sustainability Indicators for Central Europe to Measure the Effects of Transition on the Environment 6. Environmental Impact Assessment in Brazil 7. Setting Goals, Making Decisions, and Assessing Outcomes in Conservation Programs Administered by the US Department of Agriculture 8. Alternative Criteria for Judging the Success of Agro-Environmental Policy in the UK 9. The Danish Pesticide Programme: Success or Failure Depending on Indicator Choice 10. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses and quantifies the environmental impact of two closely related phenomena: economic growth and trade liberalisation. Previous work in this area tends to address only the impact of trade or economic growth on the environment, yet, as Matthew Cole shows, the two are inextricably linked.A theoretical and historical background to the relationship between economic growth and the environment, coupled with the environmental impact of international trade, particularly as it has been applied through the GATT/WTO, provides the contextual framework for a detailed empirical analysis. In examining the environmental effects of economic growth and international trade, use is made of Environmental Kuznets Curves (EKCs) and improvements to traditional EKC methodology are suggested. Global policy implications are discussed and conclusions drawn.An essential supplementary text for any undergraduate or postgraduate studying environmental economics, this book should appeal to researchers and policymakers in the field of international economic development as well as anyone with an interest in the global environment.Trade Review'. . . the book provides an admirable concise primer on environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs).' -- Paul Ekins, The Economic Journal'As someone who is instinctively sceptical of economics and economists, it was a pleasant surprise to read this book by an economist on such contentious issues as free trade, environmental degradation and economic growth which did not simply trumpet the orthodox and dominant "pro-globalisation" rhetoric and viewpoint.' -- John Barry, Organization and Environment'. . . this book provides a good insight into the complex relationship between trade liberalisation, economic growth and the environment. . . [the book's] great strength is that it is accessible to non-economists as well as students. It contains only a minimum of formalism and economic jargon throughout. It is rare that economists write books that can be understood by scholars and students from other fields, but Cole has certainly set an example in this respect.' -- Eric Neumayer, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning'. . . a useful book. . . I offers a clear and balanced summary of the existing literature. . . it is a worthwhile contribution and likely to be of interest to students, academics and policymakers.' -- John Proops, Ecological Economics'As the recent controversy over the Seattle meeting of the WTO has shown, the issue of how trade liberalisation affects the environment remains highly contested and this book is therefore very timely. It provides an up-to-date summary of the debate over the links between trade and the environment and between economic growth and the environment, together with an excellent account of the post-war developments in international policy dealing with trade and environmental issues. Matthew Cole also provides an insightful empirical analysis of the links between growth and the environment, using a more extensive data set than earlier studies, and uses this analysis to assess the impact on the environment of the Uruguay Round of trade liberalisation. Drawing on this analysis he makes a number of proposals for how international agencies might better resolve disputes between trade liberalisation and environmental protection, addressing the issues currently on the agenda of the WTO. Written in a clear and non-technical style the book will be of benefit to policymakers and students wishing to understand the issues behind the current controversy.' -- Alistair Ulph, University of Southampton, UK'This timely book advances the debate about the impact of trade liberalisation on the environment in a balanced way. Cole pays particular attention to institutional settings (especially GATT and WTO), outlines divergent views about the relationship between trade and the environment and their historical evolution, empirically tests and reports on pertinent hypotheses, and draws major global policy conclusions. This book can be considered essential reading given ongoing processes of economic globalisation, attempts to accelerate these via the Washington Consensus, and the continuing development of WTO. It will become an integral part of contemporary debate about the relationship between trade liberalisation and the state of the environment.' -- Clem Tisdell, University of Queensland, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Development of the GATT/WTO and its Treatment of the Environment 3. Trade Liberalisation, the WTO and the Environment 4. Economic Growth and the Environment 5. Economic Growth and the Environment: An Empirical Analysis 6. The Environmental Impact of the Uruguay Round 7. Policy Implications 8. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThe spatial dimension of international trade theory has been neglected during most of its history. Trade barriers such as tariffs have been deemed more important. However, in an increasingly integrated world economy seeking to abolish tariffs, spatial considerations have gained in stature. On the way to fostering a spatial trade theory this book supplies a comprehensive analysis of all the different impacts of the inclusion of space and transport costs, covering orthodox trade theory, new trade theories, and economic geography.Karl Steininger also expands spatial analysis to cover spatial preferences and spatial discounting and catalogues the result of spatial production structure and environmental quality in a global economy. Finally, an empirical account is given of the trade and macro-implications of full cost pricing in transport.Trade Review'This is a very nice, timely and unique book on an important and neglected topic, namely the relationship between trade and transport in economic theory.' -- Jeroen van den Bergh, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Modelling of Transport in International Trade Theory 3. Transport in Traditional Trade Theory 4. Transport in New Trade Theories 5. Transport in Economic Geography 6. Foreign Trade and Spatial Preferences 7. Foreign Trade and Transport Cost Internationalization 8. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental taxes are considered one of the most attractive environmental policy instruments. However, many problems still prevent their widespread implementation. This impressive book offers a comprehensive, global and innovative treatment of the environmental tax issue. The author provides detailed economic analysis as well as practical policy suggestions and presenting numerous examples that have been successful in addressing complex issues as well as considering questions including: how should the instrument be designed? what to do with the tax revenues? how taxes could be made acceptable for industry, politicians and voters an analysis of the ethical issues of environmental taxation. This comprehensive treatment of environmental taxes will ensure the book's appeal to researchers, academics and students. It will also be of immense value to those working with the environment, as well as providing practical solutions to implementation problems faced by civil servants in central and local government.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Why Environmental Taxes? 1. Solutions to Environmental Problems 2. Comparison of Instruments Part II: Models of Environmental Taxes 3. Pigouvian Taxes and the Internationalization of External Costs 4. The Twofold Rationale of the Charges and Standards Approach 5. Other Environmental Taxes Part III: The Acceptability of Environmental Taxes 6. Two Categories of Opposition 7. Voting for Environmental Taxes 8. Industry Opposition Part IV: Using the Tax Revenues 9. The Possible Uses of the Tax Revenues 10. Distributional Impact 11. Comparison Between the Different Uses Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisWaste Management and Planning presents a comprehensive selection of leading papers covering four main aspects of waste management: the waste problem, evaluation of waste management options, economic instruments and legislation and policy. Part I examines the technical aspects of waste management, such as waste generation, composition, management options and technologies. Part II discusses the evaluation of waste management options and includes papers on lifecycle assessment, multicriteria evaluation, and economic assessments. Part III focuses on economic instruments, packing policies, virgin material taxes and unit pricing. Part IV includes papers on public participation, waste facility siting and waste policy and legislation in the US, Europe and Tanzania.This volume will be an invaluable source of reference for waste management students and practitioners, and environmentalists, students and all those interested in waste management issues.Trade Review'This book presents an overview of many relatively recent developments in the research around waste management and planning, including waste prevention and recycling. As such it presents a good introduction to students or new researchers in the field, and helps to determine directions for their research. It is also a suitable reference book for people in the field . . . the book contains a nice overview of important directions in waste management from a wide geographic and disciplinary background. It will benefit students in the field and may be helpful to select reading material for students. It may also provide policymakers with information on scientific research from a diverse background in an easy to access format.' -- Ernst Worrell, Resources, Conservation and RecyclingTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Waste Management: Technology, Economics and Policy Jane C. Powell PART I THE WASTE PROBLEM: TECHNOLOGICAL AND MANAGEMENT OPTIONS 1. E. Daskalopoulos, O. Badr and S.D. Probert (1998), ‘Municipal Solid Waste: A Prediction Methodology for the Generation Rate and Composition in the European Union Countries and the United States of America’ 2. Otto M. Poulsen, Niels O. Breum, Niels Ebbehøj, Åse Marie Hansen, Ulla I. Ivens, Duco van Lelieveld, Per Malmros, Leo Matthiasen, Birgitte H. Nielsen, Eva Møller Nielsen, Bente Schibye, Torsten Skov, Eva I. Stenbaek, Ken C. Wilkins (1995), ‘Sorting and Recycling of Domestic Waste. Review of Occupational Health Problems and their Possible Causes’ 3. M. Renkow and A.R. Rubin (1998), ‘Does Municipal Solid Waste Composting Make Economic Sense?’ 4. K. Westlake (1997), ‘Sustainable Landfill – Possibility or Pipe-dream?’ 5. H.A. Abu Qdais, M.F Hamoda and J. Newham (1997), ‘Analysis of Residential Solid Waste at Generation Sites’ 6. Katrina Smith Korfmacher (1997), ‘Solid Waste Collection Systems in Developing Urban Areas of South Africa: An Overview and Case Study’ 7. M.E. Kaseva and S.K. Gupta (1996), ‘Recycling – An Environmentally Friendly and Income Generating Activity Towards Sustainable Solid Waste Management. Case Study – Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania’ 8. Shuchi Gupta, Krishna Mohan, Rajkumar Prasad, Sujata Gupta and Arun Kansal (1998), ‘Solid Waste Management in India: Options and Opportunities’ 9. Carl R. Bartone and Livia Benavides (1997), ‘Local Management of Hazardous Wastes from Small-scale and Cottage Industries’ PART II EVALUATION OF WASTE MANAGEMENT OPTIONS 10. Alan Barrett and John Lawlor (1997), ‘Questioning the Waste Hierarchy: The Case of a Region with a Low Population Density’ 11. K.D. Barlishen and B.W. Baetz (1996), ‘Development of a Decision Support System for Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems Planning’ 12. R.K. Turner (1992), ‘Municipal Solid Waste Management: An Economic Perspective’ 13. Göran Finnveden, Ann-Christine Albertsson, Jaak Berendson, Erik Eriksson, Lars Olof Höglund, Sigbritt Karlsson and Jan-Olov Sundqvist (1996), ‘Solid Waste Treatment Within the Framework of Life-cycle Assessment’ 14. Jane C. Powell, Amelia L. Craighill, Julian P. Parfitt and R. Kerry Turner (1996), ‘A Lifecycle Assessment and Economic Valuation of Recycling’ 15. Iain R. Lake, Ian J. Bateman and Julian P. Parfitt (1996), ‘Assessing a Kerbside Recycling Scheme: A Quantitative and Willingness to Pay Case Study’ 16. Guy Garrod and Ken Willis (1998), ‘Estimating Lost Amenity Due to Landfill Waste Disposal’ 17. Matthew A. Leach, Ausilio Bauen and Nigel J.D. Lucas (1997), ‘A Systems Approach to Materials Flow in Sustainable Cities: A Case Study of Paper’ 18. Jane C. Powell (1996), ‘The Evaluation of Waste Management Options’ 19. Horng-Guang Leu and Sheng H. Lin (1998), ‘Cost–benefit Analysis of Resource Material Recycling’ 20. Shan-Shan Chung and Chi-Sun Poon (1997), ‘Quantifying Externalities in Solid Waste Management in Hong Kong’ PART III ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS AND WASTE MANAGEMENT 21. R.K. Turner, R. Salmons, J. Powell and A. Craighill (1998), ‘Green Taxes, Waste Management and Political Economy’ 22. Marie Lynn Miranda and Joseph E. Aldy (1998), ‘Unit Pricing of Residential Municipal Solid Waste: Lessons from Nine Case Study Communities’ 23. Annegrete Bruvoll (1998), ‘Taxing Virgin Materials: An Approach to Waste Problems’ 24. Karen Palmer, Hilary Sigman and Margaret Walls (1997), ‘The Cost of Reducing Municipal Solid Waste’ 25. Inger Brisson (1994), ‘Life-cycle Management and Economic Instruments’ 26. Ian G. Bailey (1999), ‘Competition, Sustainability and Packaging Policy in the UK’ PART IV WASTE MANAGEMENT LEGISLATION AND POLICY 27. Paulien de Jong and Maarten Wolsink (1997), ‘The Structure of the Dutch Waste Sector and Impediments for Waste Reduction’ 28. Adam D. Read (1999), ‘Making Waste Work: Making UK National Solid Waste Strategy Work at the Local Scale’ 29. Marjorie J. Clarke, Adam D. Read and Paul S. Phillips (1999), ‘Integrated Waste Management Planning and Decision-making in New York City’ 30. J.M. Lusugga Kironde and Michael Yhdego (1997), ‘The Governance of Waste Management in Urban Tanzania: Towards a Community Based Approach’ 31. Dianne Rahm (1998), ‘Controversial Cleanup: Superfund and the Implementation of U.S. Hazardous Waste Policy’ 32. Harvey Alter (1997), ‘Industrial Recycling and the Basel Convention’ 33. Jeffery J. Himmelberger, Samuel J. Ratick and Allen L. White (1991), ‘Compensation for Risks: Host Community Benefits in Siting Locally Unwanted Facilities’ 34. Chris Zeiss and Lianne Lefsrud (1995), ‘Analytical Framework For Waste-facility Siting’ 35. Judith Petts (1997), ‘The Public-expert Interface in Local Waste Management Decisions: Expertise, Credibility and Process’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThe assessment and management of risks to human health and the environment has become a topic of increasing importance and presents one of the major challenges to modern society. This comprehensive volume draws together key papers from a range of different perspectives and offers the reader an important insight into the basic principles of environmental risk management.Topics include the background to environmental risk, human health and ecological risk assessment, risk perception and communication, strategic issues in corporate environmental risk and environmental risk and siting hazardous facilities.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Simon Gerrard PART I BACKGROUND TO ENVIRONMENTAL RISK 1. Vincent T. Covello and Jeryl Mumpower (1985), ‘Risk Analysis and Risk Management: An Historical Perspective’ 2. Emmanuel Somers (1995), ‘Perspectives on Risk Management’ 3. W. Kip Viscusi (1993), ‘The Value of Risks to Life and Health’ 4. Roger E. Kasperson and Jeanne X. Kasperson (1996), ‘The Social Amplification and Attenuation of Risk’ 5. Thomas Dietz, Paul C. Stern and Robert W. Rycroft (1989), ‘Definitions of Conflict and the Legitimation of Resources: The Case of Environmental Risk’ 6. Cynthia G. Jardine and Steve E. Hrudey (1997), ‘Mixed Messages in Risk Communication’ 7. Barry A. Turner (1994), ‘The Future for Risk Research’ PART II HUMAN HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT 8. John Solbé (1999), ‘Vipers, Humic Acids and Hurricances: Some Thoughts on Environmental Risk Assessment in Europe’ 9. Paolo F. Ricci and Mario C. Cirillo (1985), ‘Uncertainty in Health Risk Analysis’ 10. Michael Gough (1991), ‘Human Health Effects: What the Data Indicate’ 11. Keith R. Solomon (1996), ‘Overview of Recent Developments in Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment’ 12. Glenn W. Suter II, Barney W. Cornaby, Charles T. Hadden, Ruth N. Hull, Mark Stack and Fred A. Zafran (1995), ‘An Approach for Balancing Health and Ecological Risks at Hazardous Waste Sites’ 13. D.C. Kocher and F.O. Hoffman (1996), ‘Comment on "An Approach for Balancing Health and Ecological Risks at Hazardous Waste Sites"’ 14. Robert J. Kavlock and Gerald T. Ankley (1996), ‘A Perspective on the Risk Assessment Process for Endocrine-Disruptive Effects on Wildlife and Human Health’ 15. A. Dennis Lemly (1996), ‘Risk Assessment in the Regulatory Process for Wetlands’ 16. Joanna Burger (1994), ‘How Should Success be Measured in Ecological Risk Assessment? The Importance of Predictive Accuracy’ PART III RISK PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION 17. Aaron Wildavsky and Karl Dake (1990), ‘Theories of Risk Perception: Who Fears What and Why?’ 18. Cynthia J. Atman, Ann Bostrom, Baruch Fischhoff and M. Granger Morgan (1994), ‘Designing Risk Communications: Completing and Correcting Mental Models of Hazardous Processes, Part I’ 19. Ann Bostrom, Cynthia J. Atman, Baruch Fischhoff and M. Granger Morgan (1994), ‘Evaluating Risk Communications: Completing and Correcting Mental Models of Hazardous Processes, Part II’ 20. James Tansey and Tim O’Riordan (1999), ‘Cultural Theory and Risk: A Review’ 21. Richard P. Barke, Hank Jenkins-Smith and Paul Slovic (1997), ‘Risk Perceptions of Men and Women Scientists’ 22. Peter M. Sandman, Neil D. Weinstein and Paul Miller (1994), ‘High Risk or Low: How Location on a "Risk Ladder" Affects Perceived Risk’ 23. Ortwin Renn (1998), ‘The Role of Risk Communication and Public Dialogue for Improving Risk Management’ 24. Frank N. Laird (1989), ‘The Decline of Deference: The Political Context of Risk Communication’ 25. Tamara R. Lave and Lester B. Lave (1991), ‘Public Perception of the Risks of Floods: Implications for Communication’ 26. Roger E. Kasperson (1986), ‘Six Propositions on Public Participation and Their Relevance for Risk Communication’ 27. Baruch Fischhoff (1995), ‘Risk Perception and Communication Unplugged: Twenty Years of Process’ 28. Richard G. Peters, Vincent T. Covello and David B. McCallum (1997), ‘The Determinants of Trust and Credibility in Environmental Risk Communication: An Empirical Study’ 29. Josée C.M. Van Eijndhoven, Rob A.P.M. Weterings, Cor W. Worrell, Joop de Boer, Joop van der Pligt and Pieter-Jan M. Stallen (1994), ‘Risk Communication in The Netherlands: The Monitored Introduction of the EC "Post-Seveso" Directive’ PART IV STRATEGIC ISSUES IN CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL RISK 30. M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell (1996), ‘Global Risk Management’ 31. A. Neale (1997), ‘Organisational Learning in Contested Environments: Lessons from Brent Spar’ 32. Susan L. Santos, Vincent T. Covello and David B. McCallum (1996), ‘Industry Response to SARA Title III: Pollution Prevention, Risk Reduction, and Risk Communication’ 33. Peter Mascini (1998), ‘Risky Information: Social Limits to Risk Management’ PART V ENVIRONMENTAL RISK AND SITING HAZARDOUS FACILITIES 34. Michael K. Lindell and Timothy C. Earle (1983), ‘How Close Is Close Enough: Public Perceptions of the Risks of Industrial Facilities’ 35. Roger E. Kasperson, Dominic Golding and Seth Tuler (1992), ‘Social Distrust as a Factor in Siting Hazardous Facilities and Communicating Risks’ 36. Howard Kunreuther, Kevin Fitzgerald and Thomas D. Aarts (1993), ‘Siting Noxious Facilities: A Test of the Facility Siting Credo’ 37. Patrick Field, Howard Raiffa and Lawrence Susskind (1996), ‘Risk and Justice: Rethinking the Concept of Compensation’ PART VI ENVIRONMENTAL RISK MANAGEMENT 38. Michael Thompson and Steve Rayner (1998), ‘Risk and Governance Part I: The Discourses of Climate Change’ 39. Michael Thompson, Steve Rayner and Steven Ney (1998), ‘Risk and Governance Part II: Policy in a Complex and Plurally Perceived World’ 40. David Lewis Feldman, Ruth Anne Hanahan and Ralph Perhac (1999), ‘Environmental Priority-Setting Through Comparative Risk Assessment’ 41. Paul Bennett (1999), ‘Governing Environmental Risk: Regulation, Insurance and Moral Economy’ 42. Richard J. Zeckhauser and W. Kip Viscusi (1996), ‘The Risk Management Dilemma’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisSpace plays a central role in environmental and resource economics and yet spatial economics has received surprisingly little attention in the literature. This collection of Charles Kolstad's writings on spatial environmental and resource economics from the past two decades aims to fill this gap.The book includes the author's most important work on a variety of topics, including the Hotelling model of spatial competition, as applied to resource economics, jurisdictional tax competition, particularly in the context of resource taxes, and environmental regulation, both theoretical and empirical. This unique collection from one of the world's leading authorities in environmental economics will be welcomed by scholars and students of natural resource economics, environmental management, agricultural and energy economics.Trade Review'Charles Kolstad is a master in the field of natural resource economics. His research in environmental and natural resource economics has been both levelheaded and path breaking, as evidenced by the 23 papers collected in this volume. Kolstad's straight-forward approach provides a blueprint for any economists interested in learning how to do good applied work . . . Anyone interested in learning how to define the constraints, to confront them, and to design rules to increase the efficient use of land, forests, and fisheries should take a look at the papers in this volume.' -- Jason Shogren, Journal of Energy and DevelopmentTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Tax Competition Part II: Cross-Sectional Industry Analysis Part III: International Trade Part IV: Computing Equilibria Part V: Spatial Resource Economics: Theory Part VI: Spatial Environmental Economics: Theory Part VIII: Spatial Resource and Environmental Economics: Policy Index

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Book SynopsisNature and agriculture both shape the European countryside and one of the main challenges for the years to come will be to strengthen their interaction for the future development of rural areas. In this valuable and highly topical book, the authors demonstrate how economics and ecology can play a critical role in maintaining and sustaining this relationship.The book identifies the dilemmas facing European agriculture and explores their economic and ecological consequences. The authors believe a better understanding of these problems will be crucial in recognising the potential options for the future role of agriculture and nature policy and will guide the identification of suitable policy instruments. They highlight current threats to the relationship between agriculture and nature - such as abandonment and intensification - and demonstrate how these problems can be resolved by a rational policy mix. The book also provides extensive empirical evidence from four case studies and concludes by scrutinising the major changes in market conditions and the Common Agricultural Policy which could upset this important but fragile balance between agriculture and nature.Providing a state-of-the-art overview of current thinking on the relationship between agriculture and nature in the context of EU policy, this book will be welcomed by policymakers and those studying and working in the fields of agricultural and resource economics, geography, and agri-business.Table of ContentsFull Contents: Preface 1. Agriculture and Nature in Conflict? Part I: Methodology 2. Economics and the Interface between Agriculture and Nature 3. Ecology and the Interface between Agriculture and Nature 4. Agri-environmental Policy Development in the European Union 5. Environmental Valuation Methods in Rural Resource Management Part II: Cases on the Interaction between Agriculture and Nature 6. Water Availability in the Mediterranean Region 7. Agricultural Policy and Nature Conservation in the UK 8. The Pivotal Role of the Agricultural Land Market in the Netherlands 9. Broadening the Sectoral Perspective on Agricultural Policy in Greece Part III: Mitigation and Regulation 10. Marketing Public Goods and Externalities Provided by Agriculture and Forestry 11. Co-operative Agreements to Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness of Policy Targets 12. Integrated Rural Development Part IV: Outlook 13. Agriculture and Nature: Retrospect and Prospect Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Achim Korber carefully examines the influence of environmental policy on trade policy. He explores environmental protectionism and models it using public choice theory.The author focuses on: a theoretical analysis of ecological protectionism and the potential misuse of environmental regulation as a tool to gain competitive advantage a comprehensive case study on the tuna-dolphin cases of the GATT/WTO. The study reveals that the US legislation was not - as it was widely perceived - a victory for the environmentalists but for the billion dollar industry of the US tuna canneries an in-depth literature survey on various approaches to protectionism including an analysis of lobbying models including the contest-success function. The Political Economy of Environmental Protectionism, with its wealth of new material, will be of great interest to environmental, political, and trade economists as well as policymakers and researchers.Trade Review'Korber's book is valuable reading for those interested in public choice aspects of trade and environmental policy.' -- Axel Michaelowa, Climate PolicyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Explaining Trade Protectionism and the ‘Greening’ of Trade Policy Instruments 3. The Political Process: Lobbying Functions 4. Raising Rivals’ Costs with Environmental Policy – A Lobbying Approach 5. The Political Economy of the US Dolphin-safe Legislation Policy 6. Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConventional economic analysis of property rights in natural resources is too narrow and restrictive to allow for effective comparisons between alternative institutional structures. In this book, a conceptual framework is developed for the analysis of these structures with illustrative application to the allocation of water resources.Ray Challen introduces and develops a model for the analysis of the problems involved in institutional choice that takes into account constraints in institutional change imposed by history and the value of maintaining options in an uncertain future. The emphasis of institutional analysis shifts from assessing the benefits of particular property rights regimes in isolation to considering the distribution of property rights between levels of governments, communities and individuals in an institutional hierarchy. Conceptual developments in institutional theory are illustrated by using a case study of institutional change in the regulation of water use in irrigated agriculture.Trade Review'This book will be of particular benefit to those with an interest in the application of new institutional economics to natural resource management . . . the conceptual model developed in the book provides a useful framework for analysing general issues associated with institutional analysis and choice . . . the book offers readers a valuable insight into the application of transaction cost analysis to understand institutions.' -- Lin Crase, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics'. . . this book provides an interesting insight into the institutional framework for natural resource allocation.' -- Liu Gang, Economic Record'Challen has written an outstanding book.' -- Dieter Hecht, European Review of Agricultural Economics'This is an excellent piece of work, applying the economic theory of property rights and transaction costs to the complex policy problems associated with water use in irrigation. Challen examines the determination of transaction costs and the way they interact with a realistic specification of property rights. He thereby avoids the two main defects found in much work in this area: first, the use of a simplistic division of property rights schemes, for example one based on polar categories of private property and common property, defined to mean open access, and second, a tendency to use the category of transaction costs as an unexamined "black box".' -- John Quiggin, James Cook University, Australia'A most encouraging trend in economics concerns the careful and non-teleological study of institutions. From an era in which institutions were completely ignored, through an era in which it was thought that institutions were mere constraints on otherwise beneficent behavior in markets, through an era in which it was thought that the purpose of institutions was to promote economic efficiency, we now seem to be firmly in an era in which it is understood that institutions are the very bedrock of economic and social interaction. The analysis of institutions will fall into incoherence if we insist on seeing them as teleological rather than as instrumental. Once there, we must still understand the purposes that different individuals and collectivities ascribe to particular institutional set ups. In this careful book Ray Challen offers clear conceptual guidance to the study of economic institutions. He also shows us how one can undertake the analysis of institutional choice. The problem setting is water resources in eastern Australia. The lessons are profoundly international, and the approach is refreshingly promising.' -- Daniel W. Bromley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Institutions and Use of Natural Resources 3. Institutions of Water Use for Irrigation in the Murray–Darling Basin 4. Static Transaction Costs in Allocation of Water Resources 5. Transaction Costs and Institutional Change 6. Dynamic Transaction Costs and Option Values in Institutional Change 7. Policy Analysis for Institutional Change 8. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisOver the last decade, economists have increasingly recognized the role of meta-analysis and value transfer in synthesizing knowledge and efficiently exploiting the existing pool of knowledge. Comparative Environmental Economic Assessment explores the potential significance of using these techniques, particularly in environmental economics.Both meta-analysis and value transfer constitute major research tools which efficiently use knowledge previously acquired from other studies. The book focuses on the potential role and usefulness of these tools in environmental economic research, and goes on to address their validity, relevance and applicability. A future agenda for research is also illustrated.Combining methodological analysis with a variety of case studies - on aircraft noise, environmental policy in European space and urban energy policy, amongst others - the contributors present an illuminating examination of the utilization of meta-analysis and value transfer.The insightful techniques highlighted in this book will prove invaluable in the field of environmental economics. Policymakers in various areas including the environment and planning will also find this state-of-the-art study interesting and informative.Table of ContentsContents Preface INTRODUCTION 1. Meta-analysis and value transfer: comparative assessment of scientific knowledge Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Peter Nijkamp, Kenneth G. Willis PART I META-ANALYSIS AND VALUE TRANSFER IN ECONOMIC RESEARCH 2. Some parallels in the development of meta-analysis in the natural and social sciences Reinout Heijungs 3. The ceteris paribus clause in the context of meta-analysis and value transfer Frans Bal, Peter Nijkamp 4. The scope of meta-analysis for transport policy impact analysis in environmental economics Hans Kremers, Peter Nijkamp, Piet Rietveld 5. An evaluation of the potential of meta-analysis in value and function transfer Kenneth J. Button 6. Environmental value transfer: state of the art and future prospects Roy Brouwer PART II THE METHODOLOGY OF COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT 7. Benefit transfer: testing for accuracy and reliability Olvar Bergland, Kristin Magnussen, Ståle Navrud 8. Benefit function transfer versus meta-analysis as policymaking tools: a comparison Stefanie Engel 9. Developing a GIS-based methodology for benefit transfers Ian J. Bateman, Andrew A. Lovett, Julii S. Brainard 10. Methodological pitfalls in meta-analysis: publication bias Raymond J.G.M. Florax 11. Meta-analysis: a Bayesian perspective Chris Brunsdon, Kenneth G. Willis PART III CASE STUDIES 12. Thirty years of aircraft noise value studies: a meta-analysis Youdi Schipper, Peter Nijkamp, Piet Rietveld 13. A cost–benefit analysis of sustainable nature policy in the Dutch Vecht wetlands area Ernst J. Bos, Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh 14. Environmental quality in European space: a methodology for research synthesis Peter Nijkamp, Marco Geremia, Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh, Erik Verhoef 15. Critical success factors for urban energy policies: a metaanalytical comparison Peter Nijkamp, Maurice Ursem EPILOGUE 16. Meta-analysis and benefit transfer: synergy, lessons and research agendas Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Peter Nijkamp, Kenneth G. Willis Index

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Book SynopsisTourism is the world's largest industry and its fastest growing one. It has the potential to contribute significantly to the economic development of most economies, including those of less developed countries and peripheral economic regions. However, it depends heavily on environmental conditions, natural and man-made, for its market and its sustainability. This book analyzes market and political failures in relation to tourism development and the environment, and the implications of those for national gains from international tourism, for public finance and policy, and for the sustainability of tourism. Particular emphasis is placed on ecotourism and the sustainable use of natural sites, methods of evaluating the sustainability of tourism and the impacts of pollution on tourism. Case studies cover both large and small developing countries e.g. Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India and the Maldives, as well as more developed economies. While some attention is given to the evaluation of protected areas, most attention is given to policies in terms of the sustainable recreational use of such areas - examples include scuba diving and encounters of tourists with whale sharks and sea turtles. This is a fascinating book that will be of great use to a wide readership including economists, environmentalists, geographers, tourism scholars and professionals, as well as academics in development studies.Trade Review'. . . the book presents a compendium of experience drawn from several continents, including the island states and, in contrast to other tourism books, emphasizes the economic aspects in a very simple and practical manner with many pointers for policymakers, economic planners, environment managers, and so on.' -- Rolph A. Payet, Progress in Development StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: An Overview Part II: Tourism and the Environment: Market and Political Failures and Public Economics Part III: Tourism in Development and in Less Developed Areas: Mainly Case Studies Part IV: Tourism/Recreational Use of Natural Areas and Wildlife: Issues in Environmental Conservation Index

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Book SynopsisChoice Modelling is a technique that has recently emerged as a means of estimating the demand for environmental goods and the benefits and costs associated with them. The aims of the book are fourfold: to introduce the technique in the environmental context to demonstrate its use in a range of case studies to provide insights into some methodological issues to explore the prospects for the technique. The authors contributing to the book show that choice modelling offers considerable potential for the evaluation of environmental goods and services. Its flexibility to cope with a wide range of applications is well demonstrated. The technique also presents numerous challenges to practitioners. A number of these are addressed in the book.Informed and innovative, this book will prove indispensable to all scholars, researchers and practitioners in the areas of environmental studies and environmental economics.Trade Review'As someone who has used CM in environmental valuation on several occasions, I found this book both useful and interesting. . . I certainly recommend this book to my graduate students, and suggest that you read it too if you are interested in using CM.' -- Nick Hanley, The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics'. . . a very useful single source for those interested in environmental evaluation using choice models.' -- David A. Hensher, Australian Journal of Environmental Management'. . . this book can serve as a firm basis to start understanding what CM is about. . .' -- Jesús Barreiro Hurle, European Review of Agricultural EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The Technique Part II: Case Studies Part III: Exploring Some Methodological Issues Part IV: Conclusion References

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental Economics for Sustainable Growth is a specially designed handbook for trainers, practitioners and government advisors involved in environmental policy making. It will enable professionals to initiate and implement environmental economic studies and identify policies and investments which will ensure sustainable development in their respective countries.The book focuses on economic tools but also encompasses ecological and sociological perspectives, all of which are essential to any successful environmental policy. The authors highlight the major issues in environmental policy making and the analysis of projects with environmental impacts. Features include: sustainable development in a global context macroeconomic policies and the environment environmental policies and priorities legal and institutional dimensions integration of environmental assessment into project analysis valuation techniques and case studies. This handbook will be of immense use in the training of policymakers, practitioners, and students of environmental policy as well as development managers and scholars working in the areas of environment and development.Trade Review'. . . a valuable reference work which should find its place on the bookshelves of anyone who regards themselves as a professional practitioner of environmental economics or related disciplines.' -- Robert Dumsday, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics'This book fills the important niche of providing an accessible reference for non economists who must inevitably interpret and apply economic data to understand how and why people overexploit resources, and how to manage them to achieve sustainable economic and environmental practices.' -- Christopher M. Anderson, The Quarterly Review of Biology'This Handbook is a welcome addition to the planning library. It offers one of the few attempts at linking environmental economics to growth issues, within the context of sustainable development . . . it offers a wealth of information, conceptual, and goal-oriented practical methodologies, on how to integrate environmental concerns in formulating policies in decision making at various governmental levels.' -- Riad G. Mahayni, Journal of Planning Education and Research'Environmental Economics for Sustainable Growth is a long awaited handbook for practitioners in environmental economics and policy. This is the first book which comprehensively describes the environment-economy link at both the macro and micro level, puts it in the framework of sustainable development, and focuses on environmental valuation techniques as the key to operationalizing sustainable development at both the macro policy level and the micro level of project and program evaluation. The book also describes in a step-by-step fashion how to perform environmental valuation studies in developing countries and transition economies, and again illustrates the methodologies in an excellent way with empirical studies.' -- StAle Navrud, Agricultural University of Norway'Economic theory provides a foundation for policy analysis, but typically it is communicated with few examples from developing countries and with little sense of the important problems and solutions. Environmental Economics for Sustainable Growth comes a long way to bridging this gap: examples are plenty, and students get to see that methods can be applied and solutions adopted. It will prove a valuable resource for teachers and students in this important and growing area.' -- Gunnar S. Eskeland, The World Bank, US'This book provides up to date information on environmental economics and its applications to practical policy. It is clearly written and will be a valuable resource for a wide range of readers, including researchers, trainers, policy analysts and students.' -- Mohan Munasinghe, Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Sri Lanka, Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction and Structure Part I: Economy-wide Policies and the Environment 2. Sustainable Development Vision in a Global Context 3. Macroeconomic Policies and the Environment 4. Sectoral Policies and the Environment 5. Policies, Instruments and the Environment 6. Laws, Regulations and Institutions 7. National Environmental Strategies 8. Economy-wide Policies and the Valuation of Environmental Impacts Part II: Environmental Valuation Methods for Policies and Projects 9. Economic Principles and Overview of Valuation Methods 10. Revealed Preference: Direct Proxy Methods 11. Revealed Preference: Indirect Proxy Methods 12. Stated Preference: Contingent Valuation Methods 13. Use of Monetary Values of Environmental and Natural Resources for Benefit–Cost Analysis: An Application to a Soil Moisture Conservation Project in Tunisia 14. Use of Monetary Values of Environmental and Natural Resources in the Framework of National Accounts: An Application to Costa Rica 15. Valuing Health Impacts: A Case Study of Air Pollution in New Delhi, India Index

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Book SynopsisDavid Pearce has a long-established international reputation in environmental economics. This book presents a selection of his recent essays, some of which are published here for the first time.The book begins with an introduction which gives an insight into the development of David Pearce's career in environmental economics. It is also an accessible guide to the role that environmental economics can play in policy making and a forceful defence of his own position vis-a-vis different schools of thought.The essays cover four broad themes: ethics and ecological economics, sustainable development, applied environmental economics and global environmental change. Specific subject areas include: environmental valuation, forestry, wildlife conservation, risk assessment, global warming and the role of carbon taxes. David Pearce writes in a lucid and clear style which will appeal to students and scholars of environmental economics as well as political scientists, environmental managers and policymakers.Trade Review'. . . the book as a whole may attract most attention from academics with an interest in the development of the discipline of economics and its attempts to engage with growing policy concerns over environmental issues.' -- Frank Peck, Geography'This is an excellent book which everyone interested in environmental problems will find enlightening. It is not a textbook, but could serve as valuable supplemental reading in environmental economics courses.' -- Raymond F. Mikesell, The Economic Journal'David Pearce's essays . . . deserve careful reading by ecologists, ecological economists, environmental scientists and policymakers.' -- Ian Moffatt, Progress in Environmental Science'. . . will have wide appeal, including to scholars and students of environmental economics as well as those concerned with the practice of environmental policy and management. Readers will not always agree with the views expressed by the author but they will be better informed and stimulated as a result of the latest in a long tradition of his thought-provoking books at the cutting edge of environmental economics.' -- Peter Carter, Journal of Energy Literature'David Pearce broke entirely new ground with the publication of Blueprint for a Green Economy ten years ago. He is still breaking new ground today. He writes directly and often provocatively on some of today's most crucial economic and environmental issues. Whether you agree or disagree with those views, you will be both stimulated and better informed.' -- Jonathon Porritt, Forum for the FutureTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Ethics, Economists and the Environment Part I: Ethics, Ecological Economics and the Environment 1. Valuing the Environment 2. Economists Befriend the Earth 3. Economic Valuation and Ecological Economics 4. The Limits of Cost–Benefit Analysis as a Guide to Environmental Policy Part II: Sustainable Development 5. Sustainable Development 6. Capital Theory and the Measurement of Sustainable Development 7. Measuring Sustainable Development 8. Economic Growth and ‘Sustainable Consumption’ Part III: Applied Environmental Economics 9. Particulate Matter and Human Health in the United Kingdom 10. Assessing the Social Rate of Return from Investment in Temperate Zone Forestry 11. Global Environmental Value and the Tropical Forests 12. The Economics of African Wildlife Utilization 13. Packaging Waste and the Polluter Pays Principle 14. The Social Incidence of Environmental Costs and Benefits 15. A Social Discount Rate for the United Kingdom 16. Current Economic Costs of not Using Risk Assessment in Environmental Policy at the European Community Level Part IV: Global Environmental Change 17. Competing Paradigms for Managing Environmental Change 18. The Economics of Global Warming 19. The Role of Carbon Taxes in Adjusting to Global Warming Index

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Book SynopsisThe increasing demands which society places on the natural environment have led us to seek new ways of estimating the monetary costs of environmental degradation so that they can be compared with the benefits of development. This book provides a comprehensive and readable examination of the major techniques used in cost-benefit analysis and project appraisal to value environmental goods and services.Written by two leading practitioners in environmental valuation, the book includes detailed examinations of the theory and practice of a wide range of valuation techniques including contingent valuation, hedonic pricing, choice experiments and travel cost methods. Complementing the theory are case studies on various policy areas such as water quality, recreation, landscape and biodiversity drawn from Europe, the United States and Asia. The book concludes with an informative and provocative review of important contemporary issues as well as suggesting areas of future research in the practice of environmental valuation.Economic Valuation of the Environment will be essential reading for environmental and ecological economists and those practising resource management as well as for planners and policymakers.Table of ContentsContents: Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction Part II: Revealed Preference Techniques 2. Market Price and Cost Measures of Value 3. The Travel-Cost Method 4. The Hedonic Price Method Part III: Expressed Preference Techniques 5. Contingent Valuation Methods 6. Discrete Choice Methods Part IV: Case Examples 7. Recreation 8. Landscape 9. Biodiversity 10. Water Quality 11. Amenity Values Part V: Policy Use and Decision Making 12. Benefit Transfer 13. Policy Implications and Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisThe crisis of environmental degradation has createcharemd an immense volume of literature which focuses on controlling environmental problems. Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs goes one step further to extend and complement the current debates. Using property rights the book examines the causes and possible solutions to environmental and resource degradation. Written in a non-technical, reader-friendly style the book also offers: numerous examples and case studies an up-to-date list of world wide web sites relevant to the subject a detailed glossary of environmental and economic terms a guide to the literature at the end of every chapter Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs is an essential supplementary text for undergraduates and postgraduates studying environmental and natural resource management, environmental studies, ecology, environmental science, environmental economics, agricultural economics and geography.Trade Review'This is an excellent book, both clearly written and lively . . . We therefore wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone. . .'Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Environmental Wrongs 2. Externalities and the Environment 3. Property Rights for Pollution 4. Property Rights for Natural Resources 5. Controlling Environmental Degradation without Property Rights 6. Property Rights for the Common Good References Index

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Book SynopsisIndustrialized countries strive to fulfil at least part of their obligation to reduce greenhouse gases by investing in projects in developing countries rather than at home. Developing countries have been rather critical of this idea. This book outlines the development of the international negotiations on the subject and analyses different design options for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), taking into account the interests of various groups, especially host countries. Two case studies - one on a renewable energy project in Indonesia and another on Costa Rican climate policy - show the problems that are likely to be encountered by CDM and illustrate the importance of active host country involvement. The authors discuss the problems that will be addressed by forthcoming negotiation rounds and propose practical solutions for the CDM including baseline-setting, institutional structure and credit sharing. Moreover, a long-term view on linking climate and development policy is taken to achieve an equitable allocation of emission rights.Trade Review'. . . the book is technical but engaging. It has the potential to help those scholars with little background in climate change policy deal with its complex politics. It is likely to be of interest to researchers in environmental sciences and climate change, and those policymakers and practitioners responsible for studying, designing and implementing AIJ and CDM projects.' -- Esteve Corbera-Elizalde, Environmental Politics'The main advantage of this book is that it provides a bird's eye view of the complex environmental issues involved in devising a pragmatic climate policy based on flexible instruments. It should be a must-read for students of resource economics as well as policy makers in both developed and developing countries. Students in other fields such as chemical engineering and political science also would benefit from this book as it will serve as an excellent springboard for expanded analysis into more in-depth directions. The main message of this book is that in dealing with the environment, there is no alternative to cooperation among the different countries. How to achieve a consensus among the varied conflicting national and local interests is still an elusive goal. The book eloquently analyzes the conflicting issues involved in reaching a consensus at the intra- and international levels. By spelling out the logic, or lack of it, behind the positions of the various parties, an important step has been taken on the rocky road to achieving a meaningful consensus.' -- Khairy Tourk, The Journal of Energy and Development'. . . this is a valuable offering useful starting points for discussion of implementing climate change policy in developing countries.' -- Tim Forsyth, Progress in Development StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Flexible Instruments of Climate Policy 2. Flexible Instruments and Stakeholder Interests: A Public Choice Analysis 3. Making the Clean Development Mechanism Compatible with the Kyoto Protocol 4. CDM and its Implications for Developing Countries 5. Renewable Energy Supply Systems in Indonesia: A Case Study 6. Host Country-driven Implementation: The Case of Costa Rica 7. The Impact of Climate Cooperation on Renewable Energy Technologies 8. Outlook on Climate and Development Policies

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Book SynopsisRobert N. Stavins has emerged as one of the most influential voices in environmental economics over the last decade and a half. These 23 essays on environmental economics and policy, written by Professor Stavins and his co-authors over the period 1988-1999, originally appeared in a diverse set of leading, scholarly periodicals and are here collected for the first time. The book is divided into seven parts: overview; benefits and costs of environmental regulation; normative analysis of policy instruments; positive analysis of policy instruments; environmental technology innovation and diffusion; causes and consequences of land-use changes; and global climate policy. The book begins with an introductory essay in which Stavins reflects on the professional path that led to his research and writing and identifies common themes that emerge from this period of research. Students, scholars, practitioners and policymakers will find this volume a valuable and very useful addition to their collection.Table of ContentsContents: Part I: Overview of Environmental Economics and Policy Part II: Benefits and Costs of Environmental Regulation Part III: Environmental Policy Instruments: Normative Analysis Part IV: Environmental Policy Instruments: Positive Analysis Part V: Environmental Technology Innovation and Diffusion Part VI: Causes and Consequences of Land-Use Changes Part VII: Global Climate Policy Index

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