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This book shows, we believe, the breadth and the complexity of
issues that econo mists now tackle in their analysis of the
connections between the ecosystem and the economic system. The book
offers contributions to such disparate issues as the value of
preserving the wolf in Sweden and the proper distribution of
permits in an effective global warming treaty. Because these
questions remain at the fore front of important resource allocation
problems that need to be confronted, it is only appropriate that
they are represented in a book that intends to paint a picture,
albeit certainly incomplete, of the vibrant and progressing state
of environmental economics. The contributions cover five areas of
environmental economics: policy instru ments, cost-benefit
analysis, cost-efficiency, contingent valuation and experimental
economics. Each area is worthy of a book by itself, but here we
have made a point of focusing on problems that seem directly
applicable to the pressing policy issues of today. Thus, the
contributors address topics that are directly relevant to interna
tional and regional policy making, as well as those that are linked
to development of supporting information systems (e.g. resource
accounting). In addition, the con tributions seek to provide
high-level applications of measurement techniques as well as
pertinent critiques of these methods. The next section provides a
summary overview of the book."
This book shows, we believe, the breadth and the complexity of
issues that econo mists now tackle in their analysis of the
connections between the ecosystem and the economic system. The book
offers contributions to such disparate issues as the value of
preserving the wolf in Sweden and the proper distribution of
permits in an effective global warming treaty. Because these
questions remain at the fore front of important resource allocation
problems that need to be confronted, it is only appropriate that
they are represented in a book that intends to paint a picture,
albeit certainly incomplete, of the vibrant and progressing state
of environmental economics. The contributions cover five areas of
environmental economics: policy instru ments, cost-benefit
analysis, cost-efficiency, contingent valuation and experimental
economics. Each area is worthy of a book by itself, but here we
have made a point of focusing on problems that seem directly
applicable to the pressing policy issues of today. Thus, the
contributors address topics that are directly relevant to interna
tional and regional policy making, as well as those that are linked
to development of supporting information systems (e.g. resource
accounting). In addition, the con tributions seek to provide
high-level applications of measurement techniques as well as
pertinent critiques of these methods. The next section provides a
summary overview of the book."
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