The Handbook of Environmental Economics

by Bromley, Daniel W.

• ISBN13: 9781557866417
• ISBN10: 1557866414
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-04-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Handbook of Environmental Economics contains the most comprehensive set of materials on environmental and natural resource economics published to date and is based on 30 specially commissioned pieces by leading authorities in the field from the United States and Europe.

Author Biography

Daniel W. Bromley is Anderson-Bascom Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He has been editor of the journal Land Economics since 1974. He has worked throughout the world on a variety of enviroenmental topics. He is currently working in South Africa on a new enviroenment policy for the post-apartheid government and is conducting research in Russia on the emerging land market.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
List of Tables	p. x
List of Contributors	p. xii
Choices and Decisions	p. 1
Choices without Prices without Apologies	p. 3
Benefits, Costs, and the Safe Minimum Standard of Conservation	p. 26
The Environment and Property Rights Issues	p. 45
Zoning and the Urban Environment	p. 61
Public Policies for Land Conservation	p. 89
Considering the Future
Intergenerational Choices under Global Environmental Change	p. 111
Neoclassical Economic Growth Theory and "Sustainability"	p. 139
Measuring Sustainable Development	p. 166
Nonrenewable Resource Supply: Theory and Practice	p. 182
Empirical Consequences of the Hotelling Principle	p. 202
Recycling Programs	p. 222
Environmental Quality
Nonconvexities and the Theory of External Costs	p. 243
Liability and Penalty Structures in Policy Design	p. 272
A Bargaining Framework for the Global Commons	p. 295
Transferable Discharge Permits and Global Warming	p. 317
Trade, Pollution, and Environmental Protection	p. 353
Environmental Stocks and Flows
Optimal Timber Management Policies	p. 379
Bioeconomic Models of the Fishery	p. 405
Management Regimes in Ocean Fisheries	p. 433
Privatizing Open Access Fisheries: Individual Transferable Quotas	p. 453
Regulation, Imperfect Markets, and Transaction Costs: The Elusive Quest for Efficiency in Water Allocation	p. 475
Issues in the Conjunctive Use of Surface Water and Groundwater	p. 503
Minerals Policy	p. 521
The Valuation Problem
Valuation of Environmental Quality under Certainty	p. 543
Environmental Valuation under Uncertainty	p. 568
Quasi-Option Value	p. 594
Evaluating Changes in Risk and Risk Perceptions by Revealed Preference	p. 615
Contingent Valuation	p. 629
Travel Cost Models	p. 655
Hedonic Pricing Methods	p. 672
Index	p. 687
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