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Distinguished by its breadth of coverage and in-depth discussions of key topics, this book looks at the implications of environmental factors for economic policy-making. As well as chapters on damage and benefit analysis, monitoring and enforcement of environmental regulation, and the special problems of developing countries and the environment, it also includes a review of relevant microeconomic theory, an introduction to the history of environmental policy and legislation, and case studies of approaches to development versus preservation dilemmas and regional cost benefit analysis.
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Princeton University Library
FOREWORD; CHAPTER 1: What Does Environmental Economics Have to do With the Environment?:- Some Historical Problems; Analyses of Causes and Solutions; Getting Closer to Specifics; A Sketch of Environmental Policy Choices; Development and the Environment; A Concluding Theme; CHAPTER 2: Background on Actual Policy Choices:- A Little History; Efforts to Deal Legislatively with the Environment in the United States; The 1970s - A Decade of Environmental Legislation; Summarizing the Place of Economics in Environmental Legislation in the US; A Few Comments on International Comparisons and Global Concerns; Things to Keep in Mind; CHAPTER 3: Microeconomics: Review and Extensions:- Demand, Willingness to Pay, and Surpluses; Optimization in Microeconomics; Supply/Marginal Cost; Social Welfare Notions: Prices and Optimality; Notes on Optimization and the Choice of Environmental Policy; Optimization in Microeconomics; Reminders; Appendix I - Chapter 3: Rationality; Demand Functions and Willingness to Pay; Time and Uncertainty; Ignorance of the Future; Risk and Uncertainty; Appendix II - Chapter 3: Correcting Market Failures: Is Partial Correction Better Than Nothing?; Optimizing with Inconveniently Shaped Functions; When Available Future Decisions are Changed by Present Decisions; CHAPTER 4: An Introduction to the \"Environmental\" Part of Environmental Economics:- Functions of the Environment Relevant to Environmental Economics; Models of the Natural World; More About Space, Time, and Randomness; Ignorance; Concluding Comments and Reminders; CHAPTER 5: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Management of the Environment:- Going Beyond the Simplest Optimizing Problem; A More Formal and Complex Model of the Optimizing Problem; Doing Less Than Basin-Wide Net Benefit Maximization; CHAPTER 6: Damage and Benefit Estimation: Background and Introduction:- Practical Arguments; Ethical Objections and Counter Considerations; Some Important Misunderstandings about Economics; Some Possible Bases for Valuing Environmental Goods and Services; The Heart of the Economic Approach; Benefit \"Routes\" - A Brief Review; Conclusions and Reminders; CHAPTER 7: Indirect Benefit Estimation:- Demand Shifts: Complementarity; Cost Shifts: Averting, Replacing or Curing Expenditure; Travel Cost and Its Relation to Environmental Quality; Comments on Indirect Methods of Benefit Estimation More Generally; Conclusions and Reminders; CHAPTER 8: Direct Methods of Benefit Estimation:- Strategic Responses; Cognitive Difficulties and Lack of Knowledge; Some Other Challenges for Direct Questioning Methods; Conjoint Analysis; Three Final, Practical Problems; An Attempt at a Bottom Line on Direct Questioning Techniques; CHAPTER 9: Policy Instruments I: Some Basic Results and Confusions:- Narrowing Down; Bases for Judging Among Instruments; Static Efficiency; Contrasting the Static and Dynamic Cases; A Word about Subsidies; A Summary to This Point; CHAPTER 10: Policy Instruments II: Other Considerations and More Exotic Instruments:- Comparing Instruments: Other Considerations; General Institutional Demands; Prices, Ethics and Politics in Environmental Policy; Other Dimensions of Judgement; Beyond Administered Prices and Straightforward Regulations; Liability Provisions; The Provision of Information; Challenge Regulation; Concluding Comments and Reminders; CHAPTER 11: Monitoring and Enforcement:- Characteristics of Various M & E Settings; Elements of a Monitoring and Enforcement System; Some Simple Economics of Monitoring and Enforcement; Monitoring and Compliance as a decision Under Uncertainty; Conclusions and Reminders; CHAPTER 12: Dealing with Risk: The Normative Model and Some Limitations:- Rational Models for Dealing with Risk; Cognitive Problems with Risky Decisions; Some Conclusions; CHAPTER 13: Risk Analysis and Risky Decisions: Some Applications:- Risk Analysis and Risk Management; Irreversible Decisions, Ignorance, and the Techniques for Informing Decisions; Concluding Comments; CHAPTER 14: Development and Environment: Descriptive Statistics and Special Challenges:- Trying to Understand Economic Growth and Sustainability; Describing Countries and Their Health and environmental Problems; Back to the Question of Special Challenges; Does Rising Income Lead to Better Environment and Thus to Sustainability?; Concluding Comments; CHAPTER 15: Estimating Environmental Quality Benefits or Damages in Developing Countries:- Introduction; Benefit Estimation Methods for the Developing Country Setting; Direct, Hypothetical or \"Stated Preference\" Methods; Some Evidence on Contrasts Between Developing and Developed Countries; Conclusion; CHAPTER 16: Choosing Instruments of Environmental Policy in the Developing Country Context:- The Institutional Setting in Developing Countries; Are Market-based Environmental Policy Instruments the Best Answer for Developing Countries? Observations and Suggestions; Some Evidence on the Actual Choices of Environmental Policy Instruments Being Made in Latin America; Concluding Comments; Appendix I - Chapter 16: Some Detail on Institutional Capabilities and Market Configurations in Latin america; CHAPTER 17: Developing Country Environments and OECD Country Tastes: An Asymmetric Relation:- Some Possibilities for Cross-Border Influence; Where does That Leave Us?
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