Current Issues in Environmental Economics
Manchester University Press
Published on 13. July 1995
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-7190-3845-7 (ISBN)
Description
This text examines some major issues in environmental economics, looking in particular at the issue of unpriced services provided by the environment and how to value them. The contingent valuation method and experimental methods that can be used to value environmental assets are discussed. It is also shown how altruistic concerns can be handled in evaluations of environmenmtal change. The book then looks at how to augment the conventional national income measure so as to reflect depletion of natural resources. It also illustrates how computable general equilibrium models can be used to assess how environmental policy instruments affect different sectors of the economy in the short-run and in the long-run.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-3845-7 (9780719038457)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Professor, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, Sweden
Content
Current issues in the design, administration and analysis of contingent valuation surveys; on the interpretation of responses in contingent valuation surveys; preference uncertainty, optimal designs and spikes; valuing changes in health - theoretical and empirical issues; can real environmental benefits really be estimated? - an experimental economics perspective; current issues in resource accounting; environment-economy interactions in a computable general equilibrium model - a case study of Sweden; intertemporal equilibrium modelling of energy and environmental policies.