Topics in Environmental Economics

by Boman, Mattias; Bralund, Runar; Kristrom, Bengt; Brannlund, R.

• ISBN13: 9780792358978
• ISBN10: 079235897X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Topics in Environmental Economics brings together in one volume a selection of research reports on five priority areas of environmental economics: policy instruments, cost-benefit analysis, cost efficiency, contingent valuation, and experimental economics. The contributions are written by a select group of scholars of international repute. The result is a survey of international and national policy issues and the way they are addressed by environmental economists. Readership: All those who have a scientific interest in environmental economics and policy. Reference source for those interested in major environmental policy issues, both global and national.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Part 1: Policy Instruments
Markets for Tradeable CO2 Emission Quotas: Principles and Practice	3	(30)
Graciela Chichilnisky
Geoffrey Heal
Costs of Uniform and Differentiated Charges on a Polluting Input: An Application to Nitrogen Fertilisers in Sweden	33	(20)
Runar Brannlund
Ing-Marie Gren
Part 2: Cost-Benefit Analysis
On the Proper Treatment of Defensive Expenditures in ``Green'' NNP Measures	53	(10)
Thomas Aronsson
Per-Olov Johansson
Karl-Gustaf Lofgren
Preserving Species without an Endangered Species Act: British Columbia's Forest Practices Code	63	(20)
G. Cornelis van Kooten
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of an Alternative Waste Treatment in Northern Norway. Use of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) instead of Coal in an Industrial Process. A Preliminary Analysis	83	(14)
Jan Age Riseth
Yngve Torbergsen
Part 3: Cost Efficiency
Emission Constraints, Emission Permits and Marginal Abatement Costs	97	(12)
Geoffrey Heal
Wetlands as a Nitrogen Sink -- Estimation of Costs in the Laholm Bay	109	(12)
Olof Bystrom
Cost Effective Reductions in the Agricultural Load of Nitrogen to the Baltic Sea	121	(36)
Katarina Elofsson
Part 4: Contingent Valuation -- Theory and Applications
Valuing the Wolf in Sweden: Are Benefits Contingent on the Supply?	157	(18)
Mattias Boman
Goran Bostedt
A Test of Nonresponse Bias in a Mail Contingent Valuation Survey	175	(12)
Peter Fredman
Determination of WTP for a Change in Water Quality with Free Selection of Reference Points	187	(18)
Erkki Mantymaa
Part 5: Experimental Economics and the Contingent Valuation Method
Statistical Bias Functions: The Alchemy of Contingent Valuation?	205	(12)
Peter Frykbolm
Environmental Damage Assessment with Hypothetical Surveys: The Calibration Approach	217	(24)
Glenn W. Harrison
Robert L. Beekman
Lloyd B. Brown
Leianne A. Clements
T.M. McDaniel
Sherry L. Odom
M.B. Williams
List of Contributors	241	(2)
Subject Index	243