This major reference book comprises specially commissioned surveys
in environmental and resource economics written by an international
team of experts. Authoritative yet accessible, each entry provides
a state-of-the-art summary of key areas that will be invaluable to
researchers, practitioners and advanced students. The handbook
contains 79 chapters distributed over 10 main sections:
introduction economics of natural resources economics of
environmental policy international aspects of environmental
economics and policy space in environmental economics environmental
macroeconomics * economic valuation and evaluation
interdisciplinary issues methods and models in environmental and
resource economics prospects Aside from being the most extensive
survey of environmental and resource economics available today, the
handbook contains several special and unique features. Five of the
ten main sections cover topics that are addressed marginally or not
at all in previous handbooks or other surveys. Moreover, in
addition to overviews of the standard (neoclassical) approach, the
book covers core elements of ecological economics in the section on
interdisciplinary issues, with a separate chapter comparing
neoclassical and ecological economics. The first section includes
an introduction and summary of the handbook, as well as a chapter
with a historical survey of environmental economics. The final
section covers future areas of research from both monodisciplinary
and multidisciplinary perspectives. At a chapter level the handbook
addresses, in addition to standard topics, both less common and
recent topics in environmental and resource economics. These
include cartels in resource extraction, trade in resources,
indicators of resource scarcity, endogenous risk, policy in
imperfect markets, transaction costs, the double dividend of
ecotaxation, distribution issues, ethics and policy, ethics and
valuation, strategic trade, endogenous locations, endogenous growth
theory, environmental Kuznets curves, sustainability and
sustainable development, the meaning of thermodynamics, analysis of
materials flows, the relevance of ecological theory, multi-criteria
analysis, computable general equilibrium models, decomposition
methods, and ecological economics. Traditional topics are surveyed
as well, for instance, externalities, instrument choice,
nonrenewable resource extraction, fishery economics, water use, the
growth debate, valuation methods and cost-benefit analysis. A final
main advantage of the handbook is that the extensive sub-divisions
into topics means that the surveys offer an advanced treatment
whilst being concise, authoritative and accessible.
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