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This memorial collection of papers authored and co-authored by Ian
Langford represents some of the most thoughtful and innovative
contributions to the literature regarding the holistic analysis of
environmental and health risk issues. It provides important
foundations for the development of a mixed methodological approach
to addressing such issues. These carefully chosen papers span a
number of disciplines, including statistics, environmental risk
analysis, human geography and economics and represent the
diversity, innovation and analytical rigour of Ian Langford's
writing.
This manual offers a detailed, up-to-date explanation of how to
carry out economic valuation using stated preference techniques. It
is relevant for the application of these techniques to all
non-market goods and services including air and water quality;
provision of public open space; health care that is not sold
through private markets; risk reduction policies and investments
not provided privately; provision of information as with the
recorded heritage, the protection of cultural assets and so on. The
resulting valuations can be used for a number of purposes
including, but not limited to, demonstrating the importance of a
good or service; cost-benefit analysis; setting priorities for
environmental policy; design of economic instruments; green
national/corporate accounting, and natural resource damage
assessment. Compiled by the leading experts in the field, this
manual starts by explaining the concepts. It shows how to choose
the most appropriate technique and how to design the
questionnaires. Detailed advice on econometric analysis is
provided, as well as explanation of the pitfalls that need to be
avoided.
The assessment and management of risks to human health and the
environment has become a topic of increasing importance and
presents one of the major challenges to modern society. This
comprehensive volume draws together key papers from a range of
different perspectives and offers the reader an important insight
into the basic principles of environmental risk management.Topics
include the background to environmental risk, human health and
ecological risk assessment, risk perception and communication,
strategic issues in corporate environmental risk and environmental
risk and siting hazardous facilities.
Urban Planning and Management presents a collection of key articles
on different aspects of sustainability in urban planning and
management whilst simultaneously illustrating the conflicting
arguments about whether and how sustainability should be achieved.
Part I covers the factors determining the life and death of cities
and what is required to achieve sustainable development. In Part II
issues of whether cities should be compact or dispersed and
concepts of sustainable development in third world cities and
societies are explored. Parts III and IV examine design as an
integral part of producing a sustainable urban policy and energy
use. Part V deals with Local Agenda 21 issues and Part VI looks at
town planning. Part VII discusses transport as both a product and
determinant of sustainable urban planning and management. Parts
VIII, IX and X examine the sustainable provision of other services
including waste collection, recycling schemes and water. In Part XI
sustainability is shown as occurring within, and constrained by,
legal, property rights and management practices.
This manual offers a detailed, up-to-date explanation of how to
carry out economic valuation using stated preference techniques. It
is relevant for the application of these techniques to all
non-market goods and services including air and water quality;
provision of public open space; health care that is not sold
through private markets; risk reduction policies and investments
not provided privately; provision of information as with the
recorded heritage, the protection of cultural assets and so on. The
resulting valuations can be used for a number of purposes
including, but not limited to, demonstrating the importance of a
good or service; cost-benefit analysis; setting priorities for
environmental policy; design of economic instruments; green
national/corporate accounting, and natural resource damage
assessment. Compiled by the leading experts in the field, this
manual starts by explaining the concepts. It shows how to choose
the most appropriate technique and how to design the
questionnaires. Detailed advice on econometric analysis is
provided, as well as explanation of the pitfalls that need to be
avoided.
Water Resources and Coastal Management presents a comprehensive and
unique collection of articles which provide an interdisciplinary
perspective on the science and management of global coastal
resources. This important volume comprises five main sections. Part
I reviews basic scientific concepts and underpinning knowledge of
the processes at work in this dynamic environment. Part II
considers how the natural variability of coastal zone environments
has been unsustainably exacerbated by development and exploitation
of such resources. Parts III and IV focus upon the various aspects
of the management response options that could or have been deployed
both in developed and developing countries. Finally, Part V
examines the management issues that surround regional seas and
their, often international, resource regions.
Waste Management and Planning presents a comprehensive selection of
leading papers covering four main aspects of waste management: the
waste problem, evaluation of waste management options, economic
instruments and legislation and policy. Part I examines the
technical aspects of waste management, such as waste generation,
composition, management options and technologies. Part II discusses
the evaluation of waste management options and includes papers on
lifecycle assessment, multicriteria evaluation, and economic
assessments. Part III focuses on economic instruments, packing
policies, virgin material taxes and unit pricing. Part IV includes
papers on public participation, waste facility siting and waste
policy and legislation in the US, Europe and Tanzania. This volume
will be an invaluable source of reference for waste management
students and practitioners, and environmentalists, students and all
those interested in waste management issues.
This is a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), which asks what people would be willing to pay for an environmental good or attribute, or willing to accept for its loss. CVM is currently central to the assessment of environmental damage and has been the subject of considerable debate. Aimed at specialists, the book contains specially commissioned papers from both sides of that debate, as well as from commentators who see it as an interesting experimental tool regardless of the question of absolute validity of estimates. The book embraces the theoretical, methodological, empirical, and institutional aspects of the current debate, and looks at the method in US, European, and developing country contexts.
The complex real-world interactions between the economy and the
environment form both the focus of and main barrier to applied
research within the field of environmental economics. However,
geographical information systems (GIS) allow economists to tackle
such complexity head on by directly incorporating diverse datasets
into applied research rather than resorting to simplifying and
often unrealistic assumptions. This innovative book applies GIS
techniques to spatial cost-benefit analysis of a complex and
topical land use change problem - the conversion of agricultural
land to multipurpose woodland - looking in detail at issues such as
opportunity costs, timber yield, recreation, carbon storage, etc.,
and embracing cost-cutting themes such as the evaluation of
environmental preferences and the spatial transfer of benefit
functions.
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