Global warming is widely considered to be one of the most serious environmental problems for current and future generations. Moreover, the apparent failure of the Kyoto protocol to effect a meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions has increased the importance of economic research into new ways to control global warming. In this exhaustive study, the authors break new ground by integrating cutting edge insights on global warming from three different perspectives: game theory, cost-effectiveness analysis and public choice. For each perspective the authors provide an overview of...

Benefit transfer is the practice of estimating economic values at a target site by utilizing the results of existing studies for different sites. This text assesses the validity of benefit transfer using choice modeling in contrast to the traditional focus of transferring results from contingent valuation and travel cost models.

There has been an increased awareness of the need to establish and maintain small-scale forestry in tropical countries. This is due to concerns over continued deforestation, as well as the long-term environmental and economic resources these plantations can contribute if managed successfully. This book examines the constraints that limit the development of small-scale forestry in tropical environments and how they can be overcome.

The growing solid waste stream is a looming environmental problem as many communities in the United States ans Europe face a shortage of disposal capacity.

Asian nations increasingly have to balance energy needs with environmental impacts and economic growth. These critical issues for the development of Asian nations and the quality of life of their citizens are extensively addressed in this volume which focuses on research and policy perspectives.

This work on environmental economics focuses on the principle of contingent valuation and its application to endangered species. It also considers methodological issues.

This work presents recent work on ecological economics, sustainability, poverty, resource degradation and decision-making under uncertainty. It explores the allocation of resources in jointly-determined ecological-economic systems.

One of the basic issues of accounting is to augment, or extend the conventional net national product measure so as to obtain a better indicator of welfare. This book extends the usual analysis on social accounting by taking into account technological change, externalities and uncertainty. It analyzes welfare measurement, sustainability and green accounting within general equilibrium models. A large part of the book is devoted to welfare measurement in the presence of technological change and external effects which complicate green accounting to a considerable extent. In addition to...

Analyzes the environmental disruption caused by the Soviet economic system. Using Soviet data, the author shows that considerable damage has been done to the environment, and that measures to protect it have been largely ineffective. Two specific problems are discussed: the ineffectiveness of measures to protect the environment and the general mismanagement of natural resource extraction. The former Soviet Union is viewed as a shortage economy with environmental problems as part of its general functioning.

This annual publication provides a survey of economics in the years leading up to 2000 and 2001. It includes contributions on: economics and the land use-environment link; issues in the economics of water use; the economics of residential solid waste management; population and the environment; subsidiarity, federalism and the environment; transboundary pollution and international co-operation; and environmental valuation and standard economic policy.