Frontiers Of Environmental Economics

Author : Henk Folmer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843767091

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Frontiers of Environmental Economics by Henk Folmer Pdf

This is a book of uncompromising technical excellence, which does exactly what it promises to do: chart the cutting-edge frontiers of environmental and ecological economics, for the benefit of graduate students, professional academics, and policy making elites. The authors are mostly academic leaders in the field, the topics are hot . . . the contributors make the links between abstract theorizing and the concrete mental framing of issues that is a prerequisite for sound policy design . . . The papers in this collection exhibit rigorous and robust analytical frameworks, presented intuitively in clear words as well as mathematically, and harnessed to wide-ranging up-to-date bibliographies which quickly open the door into recent literature . . . this will be a book to keep on a convenient shelf for reference purposes . . . it is hard to imagine a graduate student reading this book and failing to spot opportunities to colonize new theoretical territory beyond the present frontier, or to explore empirically the areas outlined in these chapters. Geoffrey Bertram, Papers in Regional Science Top European and American scholars contribute to this cutting-edge volume on little-researched areas of environmental and resource economics. Topics include spatial economics, poverty and development, experimental economics, large-scale risk and its management, organizational economics, technological innovation and diffusion and many more. The common thread is the language and methodology of economics, yet the work aims to reach an audience wider than academia; others such as researchers and policymakers, in the public sector, professional staff in research institutes and think tanks, and environmental consultants will all benefit from an awareness of these crucial issues which, if not considered now, will become the problems of the future.

Author : Jon David Erickson,John M. Gowdy
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123376043

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Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and Application by Jon David Erickson,John M. Gowdy Pdf

Research on the cutting edge of economics, ecology, and ethics is presented in this timely study. Building from a theoretical critique of the tradition of cost-benefit analysis, the contributors lay the foundation for a macroeconomics of environmental sustainability and distributive justice. Attention is then turned to three of the most critical areas of social and environmental applied research - biodiversity, climate change, and energy. The contributors redefine progress away from growth and toward development. To this end, the first section of the book tackles the dominant framework used in the US today to evaluate tradeoffs between economic growth and its inherent externalities. Succeeding chapters cover a wide variety of studies related to biodiversity health and energy. Each section is anchored with overviews by top scholars in these areas - including Herman Daly, Carl McDaniel, Stephen Schneider, and Nathan Hagens - and followed by detailed analyses reflecting the transdisciplinary approach of ecological economics. Students and scholars of ecological, environmental, and natural resource economics, sustainability sciences, and environmental studies will find this book of great interest. Non-profit and government agencies in search of methods and cases that merge the study of ecology and economics will also find the analyses of great practical value.

Author : Edward B. Barbier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789401115186

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Economics and Ecology by Edward B. Barbier Pdf

In the Summer of 1991, Bob Carling, who was then Life Sciences Editor of Chapman & Hall, approached me over the possibility of producing an edited volume of works on economics and ecology. As we discussed the matter further, what became clear is that there is a growing literature on the' frontiers' of both disciplines that has involved economists 'borrowing' from ecology and ecologists 'borrowing' from economics. We decided that this volume should try to provide a small cross-section of that literature. I was very much interested in editing this volume for several reasons. First, one of my principal interests in economics has been how the economic analysis of natural resource and environmental problems can benefit from the concepts and lessons learned from other disciplines, in particular ecology. I was grateful at having the opportunity to pull together a selection of readings that illustrate how the integration of the two disciplines can lead to fruitful analysis. Second, I was also aware that, as Director of the London Environmental Economics Centre and as a Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Environment and Development, I was fortunate to have worked with or to have known a number of economists and ecologists whose work would be ideal for this volume. I was delighted that so many of my friends and colleagues were as enthusiastic about this project as I, and agreed to participate.

Author : Shigemi Kagawa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136651212

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Frontiers of Environmental Input-Output Analysis by Shigemi Kagawa Pdf

Input-Output Analysis (IOA) is widely used in the field of ecological economics, industrial ecology, and environmental sciences. Industrial Ecology (IE) and Ecological Economics (EE) are promising and growing fields. IOA plays a crucial role in analyzing the related environmental and resource issues and providing quantitative information to many research questions and policy implications. The major aim of this book is to provide not only a comprehensive overview of environmental IOA from 1930s to the present but also the frontiers of environmental IOA including energy structural decomposition analysis, spatial energy structural decomposition analysis, multi-regional waste make-use analysis, augmented waste input-output analysis, dynamic structural decomposition analysis with product lifetime distributions, and endogenous input-output analysis with product lifetime distributions to professionals, practitioners, and students. This book presents a novel dynamic structural decomposition analysis to evaluate the effects of the product lifetime shifts and structural changes such as technological changes and final demand shifts on the life cycle energy consumptions. It also contributes to modelling a simple social accounting method with cumulative product lifetime distributions and argues how product lifetime extension affects energy consumptions and income flow throughout the entire economic system. The book demonstrates the author’s expertise in IOA and is an essential read for students and scholars in the field.

Author : Karl-Goran Maler
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0080459161

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Handbook of Environmental Economics by Karl-Goran Maler Pdf

Many of the frontiers of environmental economics research are at the interface of large-scale and long-term environmental change with national and global economic systems. This is also where some of the most of challenging environmental policy issues occur. Volume 3 of the Handbook of Environmental Economics provides a synthesis of the latest theory on economywide and international environmental issues and a critical review of models for analyzing those issues. It begins with chapters on the fundamental relationships that connect environmental resources to economic growth and long-run social welfare. The following chapters consider how environmental policy differs in a general-equiIibrium setting from a partial-equilibrium setting and in a distorted economy from a perfect economy. The volume closes with chapters on environmental issues that cross or transcend national borders, such as trade and the environment, biodiversity conservation, acid rain, ozone depletion, and global climate change. The volume provides a useful reference for not only natural resource and environmental economists but also international economists, development economists, and macroeconomists.

Author : Ulrike Grote,Arnab K. Basu,Nancy H. Chau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790817560

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New Frontiers in Environmental and Social Labeling by Ulrike Grote,Arnab K. Basu,Nancy H. Chau Pdf

This volume provides an in depth look at labeling and its relation to the governance of global trade. The book aims at bridging the research gaps related to the link between consumers’ perception of a label with their willingness to pay, the impact and the limitations of labeling in the event of food safety hazards, and the trade and development dimensions of labeling. As such, this volume opens a new frontier on issues related to the economics of labeling.

Author : John R. Madden,Hiroyuki Shibusawa,Yoshiro Higano
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811539701

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Environmental Economics and Computable General Equilibrium Analysis by John R. Madden,Hiroyuki Shibusawa,Yoshiro Higano Pdf

This book addresses major issues such as a growing world energy demand, environmental degradation due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emission, and risk management of disastrous events such as pandemics, abnormal climate, and earthquakes. Using cutting-edge analytical tools, particularly computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling, the analyses are focused on a very wide range of policy-relevant economic questions for the Asia-Pacific region, especially for Japan, China, India, Vietnam, and smaller nations, including Brunei, Timor Leste, and Fiji. The first part considers (a) the effects of climate change on agriculture sectors, energy policies, and future GHG emission trends, (b) adaptation to climate changes in energy policy and its impacts on the economies, and (c) risk management of catastrophic events such as global pandemics. The second part examines (a) energy environmental issues, (b) economic impacts of natural disaster and depopulation, and (c) effects of informatics development on risk management, using CGE modelling and other methods in regional science fields. Contributors are internationally active leading CGE modellers and environmental economists. The book should be greatly beneficial for scholars and graduate students as well as policy makers who are interested in the economic effects and management of risks relating to climate change and disastrous events.

Author : Gordon M. Winder,Andreas Dix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317391623

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Trading Environments by Gordon M. Winder,Andreas Dix Pdf

This volume examines dynamic interactions between the calculative and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness, variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature. It does so in diverse environments caught up in new trading relationships forged on and through frontiers for agriculture, forestry, mining and fishing. Historical resource frontiers are understood in terms of commercial knowledge systems organized as projects to transform landscapes and environments. The book asks: how were environments traded, and with what environmental and landscape consequences? How have environments been engineered, standardized and transformed within past trading systems? What have been the successes and failures of economic knowledge in dealing with resource production in complex environments? It considers cases from northern Europe, North and South America, Central Africa and New Zealand in the period between 1750 and 1990, and the contributors reflect on the effects of transnational commodity chains, competing economic knowledge systems, environmental ignorance and learning, and resource exploitation. In each case they identify tensions, blind spots, and environmental learning that plagued commercial projects on frontiers.

Author : Wu JunJie,Paul Barkley,Bruce Weber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136525858

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Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics by Wu JunJie,Paul Barkley,Bruce Weber Pdf

Most land in the United States is in rural areas, as are the sources of most of its fresh water and almost all its other natural resources. One of the first books to approach resource economics and rural studies as fundamentally interconnected areas of study, Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics integrates the work of 18 leading scholars in resource economics, rural economics, rural sociology and political science in order to focus on two complex interdependencies-one pertaining to natural resources and human welfare, the other to urban and rural communities and their economies. The book reviews the past 50 years of scholarship in both natural resource and rural economics. It contrasts their different intellectual and practical approaches and considers how they might be refocused in light of pressing demands on human and natural systems. It then proposes a 'new rural economics' that acknowledges the full range of human-ecosystem and urban-rural interdependencies. It explores the relationship between natural resources and economic growth, and considers the prospects for amenity-driven growth that would benefit both new and traditional inhabitants of rural areas. Later chapters explore the politics of place, spatial economics, strategies for reducing rural poverty, and prospects for linking rural and environmental governance. Throughout, the book emphasizes innovative research methods that integrate natural resource, environmental, and rural economics.

Author : Renan-Ulrich Goetz,Dolors Berga
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387300566

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Frontiers in Water Resource Economics by Renan-Ulrich Goetz,Dolors Berga Pdf

Most of the books published previously in the field of water resource eco nomics focus on particular aspects of water economics such as institutions, pricing or water markets, but none of them have given particular attention to methodological questions. However, the applied methodology within economic research has made some remarkable advances over the last 10-20 years. Some of these advances are of particular interest to the field of water economics. Therefore, we think that a book that focusing on methodological advances within the field of water resource economics and showing how these advances can be applied in economic analysis of water issues makes a nice complement to the existing literature in this field. We identified five areas where we consider the methodological advances to be of particular importance: 1) asymmetric information and game theory, 2) un certainty, 3) space, 4) water quality and 5) production and technology adoption. The selected papers for the book fall entirely within these categories. The book ''Frontiers in Water Resource Economics" draws to a great extent on papers which were presented at the 7^^ Conference of the International Water and Re source Economics Consortium, June 3-5,2001 held in Girona, Catalonia, Spain, This conference was jointly organized with the 4^^ Conference of Environmen tal and Resource Economics by the Department of Economics, University of Girona.

Author : Robert Costanza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1023963962

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Frontiers in Ecological Economics by Robert Costanza Pdf

Artículos originales publicados en diferentes revistas entre 1984 y 1995, divididos en 4 apartados: Creando una economía ecológica; Circulación de energía y mercancías en sistemas económicos y ecológicos; Modelos y análisis de sistemas económicos y ecológicos; Incentivos e instituciones.

Author : Philip A. Lawn
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123370079

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Frontier Issues in Ecological Economics by Philip A. Lawn Pdf

'Frontier Issues in Ecological Economics' focuses on a range of issues in the field of ecological economics and outlines measures to achieve a more sustainable, just, and efficient world for all.

Author : Robert Costanza
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022825546

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Frontiers in Ecological Economics by Robert Costanza Pdf

In this study, the author's most important work on understanding ecological and economic systems is included. A particular contribution of his is that he transcends disciplinary booundaries by collaborating closely with other specialists, thereby constructing integrated analyses of interaction.

Author : Edward B. Barbier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139493468

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Scarcity and Frontiers by Edward B. Barbier Pdf

Throughout much of history, a critical driving force behind global economic development has been the response of society to the scarcity of key natural resources. Increasing scarcity raises the cost of exploiting existing natural resources and creates incentives in all economies to innovate and conserve more of these resources. However, economies have also responded to increasing scarcity by obtaining and developing more of these resources. Since the agricultural transition over 12,000 years ago, this exploitation of new 'frontiers' has often proved to be a pivotal human response to natural resource scarcity. This book provides a fascinating account of the contribution that natural resource exploitation has made to economic development in key eras of world history. This not only fills an important gap in the literature on economic history but also shows how we can draw lessons from these past epochs for attaining sustainable economic development in the world today.

Author : André Ricardo Araújo Lima,Juliana Assunção Ivar do Sul,João P. G. L. Frias,Cristina Panti
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889668717

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Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Sources, Distribution, Biological Effects and Socio-Economic Impacts by André Ricardo Araújo Lima,Juliana Assunção Ivar do Sul,João P. G. L. Frias,Cristina Panti Pdf