Economics of specific sectors

International climate change policy can be broadly divided into two periods: A first period, where a broad consensus was reached to tackle the risk of global warming in a coordinated global effort, and a second period, where this consensus was finally framed into a concrete policy.

Economies are open systems embedded in an ecosystem with which they exchange matter and energy.

During the past decade many countries in the world have experienced droughts, with severe impacts on water urban supply systems.

Global climate change is expected to have major impacts on water resources and aquatic ecosystems.

The issue of climate change is now widely recognised as one of the major challenges for mankind in the 21st century, not only because it may ultimately affect many areas of our environment, nature and human activity but also because its mitigation may have far reaching consequences for almost all sectors of the economy where energy conversion takes place.

Freer Trade, Sustainability, and the Primary Production Sector in the Southern European Union is the first full-scale academic work to cap- ture the primary production sector policy aspects of trade liberaliza- tion and sustainability with a detailed focus on a typical southern EU country, Greece.

Policy failures in environment and development have been blamed on frag- mented and eclectic policies and strategies.

When Lovelock published his 'Gaia', it was for many people quite a relief.

The 1980s and 1990s have been a period of exciting new developments in the modelling of decision-making under risk and uncertainty.

Modern liberal democracies are troubled by public problems in which the free market is no innocent bystander.

Taking advantage of the many specialists visiting Spain prior to the INFORMS Meeting in Barcelona, hold from July 14th to July 17th 1997, we organized a work- shop on Decision Analysis Applications at the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain, from J uly 11th to 12th 1997, under the sponsorship of de the Instituto Espaiia.

What is the role of government in environmental politics and policy?

This book draws together contributions from forest economists in the Research Triangle of North Carolina, with co-authors from institutions around the world.

This book deals with voluntary approaches between farmers and water suppliers as an instrument to meet environmental standards, impacted by agricultural activities, more economically efficient and environmentally effective than by exclusive application of alternative instruments including command-and-control approaches.

The marginal price elasticities estimated by Martinez-Espineira conforms to expectation.

Nicolas Buclet Waste management issues can be approached in several ways.

Life Cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool for environmental decision-support in relation to products from the cradle to the grave.

This book looks afresh, from a philosophical perspective, on the role economic theory plays in present-day ecological policy.

Most of the chapters in this volume are authored by staff or associates of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE).

During the last century international trade has become indispensable for many economies.

Economic growth after World War II was made possible through dramatic increases in the use of material resources and energy.

The theoretical claims for eco-tariffs are rigorously analyzed within a unified framework formed of an international trade model enriched with both a domestic and a global externality.

Climate change is one of the major global environmental problems, one that has the potential to confront us with great costs during the decades to come.

There is a complex relationship between the environment and the development of tourism, which this book discusses in a thorough and informative manner.

The complexity of issues requiring rational decision making grows and thus such decisions are becoming more and more difficult, despite advances in methodology and tools for decision support and in other areas of research.

Efficiency and Equity of Climate Change Policy is a comprehensive assessment of the economic effects of climate change policy, addressing the issues with a quantitative modelling approach.

Nicolas Buclet and Olivier Godard In terms of economic scale, waste management is one of the two most important environmentally oriented sectors.

In recent years, voluntary approaches to emission reductions have increasingly been adopted by major companies all over the world and have increasingly been supported by regulatory bodies and public administrations.

Climate change is one of the major environmental concern of many countries in the world.

The analysis of the relationship between transport and environmental policy invites an interdisciplinary treatment and a variety of approaches, and rightly so.

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Prefaced by Bjorn Stigson, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, this book is one of the few that treats this topic by putting representatives of industry at centre stage.

Environmental decisions must satisfy a multitude of objectives and the matching of a plan, policy or project to such objectives is a matter of both facts and value judgements.

Meta-analysis is a formal synthesis of results and findings of scientific studies, which can assist in gaining new insights, explaining differences between results of similar studies, or determine useful directions of research.

Environmental issues continue to burden governments and economies throughout the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union.

The European Union faces several interlinked challenges: how to protect the environment and favour sustainability; how to reduce unemployment and foster competitiveness in a context of growing globalization; how to reduce regional disparities among and within me mb er countries.

One of the central tenets of this book is that governmental policies must be designed to take into account market characteristics and environmental phenomena - simultaneously.

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Environmental policy is undergoing a dramatic transformation.

The contribution of economic thought and method to environmental management needs practical illustration.

This book is about joint implementation.

In April 1992 the Foundation Eni Enrico Mattei organized a workshop on the regulation of nonpoint source pollution.

The purpose of this book is to develop a general economic model which integrates the quantity and quality issues of water resource management and to provide, along with a detailed criticism of the policy instruments now in use, alternative proposals concerning the efficient allocation and distribution of water.

During the last decades, environmental economics as a science has been very successful in improving our understanding of environment-economy interdepen- dence.

The subject of this volume is the human economy and its coevolutionary relationship with the natural world.

This book is the second edition of a text based on a report commissioned by the Swedish International Development Authority (SID A).

Uncertainty could be associated with wisdom, enterprise, and discovery.

After a period of relative silence, recent years have been marked by an upswing of interest in environmental issues.

When approached by Warren Samuels, the series editor, about organizing a volume on natural resource economics, I was at a loss as to how one might possibly capture in "e;several major essays plus several shorter comments thereon"e; all of the diverse activities that fall within this exciting discipline.