Recent Advances in Environmental Economics

About this book

This book has 2 main themes: environmental policymaking with a federalist context and valuation issues, including experimental design.

Contents

A reconsideration of environmental federalism; global environmental governance, political lobbying and transboundary pollution; endogenous transfrontier pollution; allocating greenhouse gas emissions among countries with mobile phone populations; environmental regulation and international trade - a general equilibrium approach; the ups and downs of the environmental Kuznets curve; participation in industry-wide voluntary approaches - short run vs long run equilibrium; irreversible development of a natural resource - management rules and policy issues when direct use values and environmental values are uncertain; a model of neighbourhood conditions and internal household environments; environmental policy and the timing of drilling and production in the oil and gas industry; using flexible scenarios in benefit estimation - an application to the cluster rule and the pulp and paper industry; trade-off at the trough - TMDLs and the evolving status of US water quality policy; heterogeneous preferences and complex environmental goods - the case of ecosystem restoration; incentives in public goods experiments - implications for the environment; an experimental test for options values - relevance for contingent valuation elicitation; is the scope test meaningful in the presence of other-regarding behaviour?

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