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This collection of specially commissioned papers pays tribute to
Karl-Gustaf Lofgren's significant and diverse contribution to
theoretical and empirical research within the field of
environmental and resource economics over the past two decades. A
number of distinguished scholars examine a broad range of topics
including sustainability, risk and uncertainty, demand theory and
issues related to public goods. The book also contains analyses of
more specific resource problems concerning fisheries, forestry
management, wildlife and pollution. Together, the seventeen
chapters provide an innovative and cutting-edge analysis of a
smorgasbord of both old and new environmental and resource
problems, including, amongst others: local public goods and income
heterogeneity self-selection and the value of lives saved
international fisheries agreements salmon and hydropower discrete
versus continuous harvesting timber supply voluntary road pricing
economic impacts of environmental regulations in California.
Academics, researchers and students within the fields of
environmental, resource and public economics will find this book to
be a fascinating read.
Energy is a key resource for transformational development globally.
Oil and gas continue to play a key role in this sector irrespective
of the gradual transition towards renewables and will continue to
do so in most developing and emerging economies in the near future.
The industry is complex and highly capital intensive with
significant risk, but also with significant benefits. Such a
complex but important sector is generally not well understood both
in academic and policy circles. This book fills this void by
serving as a comprehensive reference to the oil and gas sector,
with a focus on emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs).
It offers in-depth coverage of the critical and contemporary issues
in the economics of oil and gas industry by carefully integrating
the relevant theoretical underpinnings and practical policy issues
across the value chain of the industry in relation to the
development, fiscal arrangements, and the economic and financing
aspects of the industry. These insights will significantly deepen
the understanding of the industry and extend the knowledge of the
sector in ways that existing books do not. The book includes
relevant cases and thus, will serve as a valuable resource for
students taking courses in market analysis of the oil and gas
industry, energy economics, development economics and finance,
environmental and resource economics, the political economy of the
extractive industry and development studies. Researchers and
practitioners working in these areas will also find the book to be
a useful reference guide.
The prospect of simultaneously achieving a 'greener' environment,
increased tax revenues and lower levels of unemployment has made
ecological taxes an increasingly popular proposition. This volume
examines the possibility of ecological tax reform in the Nordic
countries of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The potential for
ecological tax reform is investigated on a theoretical and an
empirical level. The social costs associated with environmental
taxes are analysed and the impacts of a Swedish carbon tax are
calculated by means of a static numerical model. Taxes on carbon,
nitrogen and fertilisers are also examined. The authors find that
the level of unemployment cannot be decreased by revenue neutral
environmental taxes without any social costs and conclude that
there are no easy ways to achieve full employment, a budget surplus
and environmental sustainability. They conclude that further
understanding of the functioning of the labour market, household
decisions and the link between change in pollutant emissions and
environmental damage is needed in order to make more concrete
suggestions concerning ecological tax reforms. Green Taxes will be
of immense use to academics and practitioners in the field of
environmental economics.
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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