Principles of Environmental and Resource Economics

by Folmer, Henk; Gabel, H. Landis

• ISBN13: 9781858989440
• ISBN10: 1858989442
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Author Biography

Thomas Aronsson is Professor of Economics at Umea University, Sweden Jean-Philippe Barde holds a PhD in economics from Paris University and is Principal Administrator in the OECD Environment Directorate Charles Corbett is Assistant Professor of Operations and Technology Management at The Anderson School at UCLA Samuel Fankhauser is an economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London Henk Folmer is Professor of General Economics at Wageningen University and Professor of Environmental Economics, Tilburg University Jurgen Freimann is Professor of Management Science and Environmental Management at the University of Kassel, Germany H. Landis Gabel is Professor of Economics and Management and Associate Dean for the MBA Programme at INSEAD Nick Hanley is Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Glasgow, Scotland Per-Olov Johansson is Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics Helmut Karl is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Jena, Germany Jari Kuuluvainen is Professor of Social Economics of Forestry at the University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Economics Francois Leveque is Professor of Economics at the Ecole des Mines in Paris Karl-Gustaf Lofgren has been Professor of Economics at the University of Umea since 1988 Daniel McCoy is an economist at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin Alain Nadai is economist at the Center for the Study of Improvement and Regulation, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh Carsten Orwat is at the Department of Economics of the University of Jena, Germany Eirik Romstad is Head of Research in the Department of Economics and Social Sciences at the Agricultural University of Norway Kathleen Segerson is Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut Mordechai Shechter is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Haifa, Israel Climate Change (IPCC); Chairperson of the Committee on Regional Research and Development Centers of the Ministry of Science; and on the Board of Directors of Israel's Society for the Protection of Nature. Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne is Professor of technology economics and management at the Ecole polytechnique de Montreal Jim Skea is the Director of the Policy Studies Institute, London and a professor at the University of Westminster Sjak Smulders is a Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy on Arts and Sciences Olli Tahvonen is currently a professor of environmental economics at the Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki R. Kerry Turner is Director of CSERGE and Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia Alistair Ulph is Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton Carel Vachon currently works in the area of strategic planning for the Quebec Ministry of Research, Science and Technology Luk Van Wassenhove is Professor of Operations Management and Operations Research and Associate Dean for Research and Development at INSEAD Aart de Zeeuw is Professor of Environmental Economics at Tilburg University Tomasz Zylicz, Microeconomics Chair, directs the Warsaw Ecological Economics Centre established at Warsaw University in 1993

Table of Contents

List of boxes	vii
List of figures	viii
List of tables	xi
List of contributors	xiii
Introduction	xxi
H. Landis Gabel
Henk Folmer
PART I GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
Markets and externalities	3	(31)
Karl-Gustaf Lofgren
Microeconomics of valuation	34	(38)
Per-Olov Johansson
Valuing the environment	72	(32)
Mordechai Shechter
Cost-benefit analysis	104	(26)
Nick Hanley
Goals, principles and constraints in environmental policies	130	(27)
Tomasz Zylicz
Environmental policy and policy instruments	157	(45)
Jean-Philippe Barde
Impact analysis of environmental policy	202	(33)
Samuel Fankhauser
Daniel McCoy
PART II BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
A firm's involvement in the policy-making process	235	(30)
Francois Leveque
Alain Nadai
Corporate responses to environmental concerns	265	(15)
H. Landis Gabel
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne
Environmental issues and operations strategy	280	(31)
Charles Corbett
Luk Van Wassenhove
Environmental management and information systems	311	(27)
Jurgen Freimann
Environmental technology	338	(25)
Jim Skea
Environmental marketing and public policy	363	(33)
Helmut Karl
Carsten Orwat
Dealing with major technological risks	396	(24)
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne
Carel Vachon
Liability for environmental damages	420	(27)
Kathleen Segerson
PART III SELECTED TOPICS
International environmental problems and policy	447	(32)
Henk Folmer
Aart de Zeeuw
Environment and trade	479	(50)
Alistair Ulph
Green taxation	529	(35)
Eirik Romstad
Henk Folmer
Social accounting and national welfare measures	564	(38)
Thomas Aronsson
Economic growth and environmental quality	602	(63)
Sjak Smulders
The economics of natural resource utilization	665	(35)
Olli Tahvonen
Jari Kuuluvainen
Waste management	700	(45)
R. Kerry Turner
Index	745