Environmental economics

As we reach the end of the 20th century, the question of how to meet human needs and preferences while safeguarding the global environment is a major concern facing humanity.

This volume is a collection of reports presented at the International NATO Advanced Research Workshop Conservation of the Biological Diversity as a Prerequisite for Sustainaible Development of the Black Sea Region.

Students in Technical and Agricultural faculties spend only a limited amount of time on general economics, environmental economics and resource economics.

Many of the major environmental challenges facing governments and societies today are collective problems, calling for joint solutions.

The appearance of this Second Edition has been encouraged by the favorable reception of the first.

Following the presentation ofChina's Agenda XXIin 1994, the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei began a fruitful collaboration with the SSTC (State Science and Technology Commission) on Natural Resource Accounting of the People's Republic of China.

Climate change poses important challenges to research and policy.

Conventional economic accounts, which measure Gross National Product (GNP)and related indicators of national performance, do not fully allow for the damages caused to the environment in the course of producing and consuming goods and services.

of ecological (also biological) variables b which interact in their dynamic t evolution: det dbt dt = f (et, bt)' dt = 9 (et, bt)* Among the solution paths to this interaction between economic and ecologi- cal variables, we look for those which are sustainable.

Sustainable development and environmental improvement are often regarded as intrinsically valuable a priori.

This book takes a long-term view of environmental policy in Poland, which thus serves as an example to increase our understanding of environmental policy making in general in the former Eastern bloc countries.

Is economic growth good for the environment?

Professor Sten Malmquist constructed the Malmquist quantity index and in doing so developed a distance function defined on a consumption space.

One of the major challenges of sustainable development is the interdisciplinary nature of the issues involved.

Competition in Europe, which has been chosen as the title for the Essays in Honour of Henk W.

In 1989 the Dutch government published a National Environmental Policy Plan (Dutch abbreviation NMP).

This volume is the result of a collective effort made by its authors to reason and write about environmental policy from an empirical, rather than from a prescriptive perspective.

This book is intended as a warning against the kind of hard-core liberalism which blames state intervention for the disappointing results achieved in matters of macroeconomic, competition and social welfare policy.

We have undertaken this volume in the belief that there is now sufficient research completed on environmental risk to justify a retrospective assessment of what is known.

Multiple criteria decision making is a major and rapidly growing field of research.

Following the report by the World Commission on Environment and Development, research efforts devoted to sustainable development were promoted by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research (FRN).

Since the 'environmental revolution' began in the late 1960s, economists have done a lot of work in the field of economic theory-building on the preservation of nature.

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Oil is the lifeblood of the global economy, and its misuse carries the risk of heavy economic and environmental penalties.

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The computer revolution both in the hardware as well as in software has made it possible for economists to analyze complex issues which could not be solved in the past by analytical methods.

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The idea for this book began in Sofia, Bulgaria in September, 1992 when we met to plot a course for our University Affiliations project which had been recently funded by the U.

Government subsidized crop insurance has been used by a number of developed countries as a mechanism to reduce farm income instability by reducing yield risks.

Regulations to promote health and safety may be costly relative to the expected health and safety benefits, and may actually have negative effects on health and safety.

Economic theory and empirical models suggest that economic instruments should help us to meet environmental goals at lower cost.

At the end of 1991, the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei hosted the Integration Symposium of the Confederation of European Associations of Economists on "e;Europe between East and South"e;.

This work stems from the activities carried out under the European Science Foundation's Environmental Toxicology Programme and its daughter programme, Environmental Damage and its Assessment.

The research projects at Fondazione Mattei have for some time now been dealing with the international dimension of environmental policy.

This book contains a collection of papers on economic incentives and environmental policies which result from the authors' joint research work in the program `Environment, Science and Society', conducted under the auspices of the European Science Foundation, with whose cooperation the book has been published.

This book focuses on describing policy instruments in different countries.

A sustainable future: a world in which sustainable development is possible and guaranteed?

Over the past two decades, economic theory has extended its field of application to non-market goods such as environmental resources and health.

Growing populations and economies have increased the public's awareness that the world's environmental resources are finite.

This book explores siting dilemmas - situations in which an "e;authority"e; (e.

Rural areas need to fulfil a large variety of functions and to accommodate many activities.

A multidisciplinary and multifaceted approach is employed to identify principal ecosystems and natural resources in the U.

This volume characterizes the current state of natural science and socioeconomic modeling of the impacts of climate change and current climate variability on forests, grasslands, and water.

Although economists have long advocated the use of economic instruments in the implementation of environmental policy, they have only recently gained acceptance.

In this study, the author constructs a systematic statistical framework for studying the environment and technology, the economy and society, and performs a series of analyses of the impact of human activities on the environment.

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