Handbook of Environmental Economics

by Partha Dasgupta (Editor), Subhrendu K. Pattanayak (Editor), V. Kerry Smith (Editor)

Overview

Handbook in Environmental Economics, Volume 4, the latest in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting timely chapters on Modeling Ecosystems and Economic Systems, Framing Sustainability Policy Questions: Who Leads – Ecology or Economics?, Valuing Natural Capital Within an Integrated Economic Ecological, Developing Economies, Urbanization, Climate Change and Health, Viewing Environmental Policy Instruments for Domestic and International Perspective, Quasi experimental Estimation of Environmental Policies, Environment Macro, The Rules for Formal and Informal Institutions in Managing Environmental Resources, and How Should Uncertainty Be Integrated into the Methods for Policy Evaluation? - Answers key policy questions facing environmental agencies in developed and developing economies - Integrates insights from economics and ecology as part of several key chapters - Presents the latest on efforts to review and evaluate the new literatures on field and quasi experiments in environmental economics - Provides the first substantive review of environmental macro economics

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444537737
Publisher:	North Holland
Publication date:	10/17/2018
Series:	Handbook of Environmental Economics , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	496
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Sir Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Emeritus Professor of Economics, Chair of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and a Fellow of St John's College, all at the University of Cambridge. He was knighted in 2002 for his services to economics, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, and Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. He won the Volvo Environment Prize in 2002, the Blue Planet Prize in 2015 and the Tyler Prize in 2016. The UN Environment Programme named Professor Dasgupta as one of four 2022 Champions of the Earth, the first economist to have been awarded this honour. His research interests are broadly in the Economics of Poverty and Nutrition, and in Environmental Economics. He has authored and edited many books, including Time and the Generations: Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet, (New York, Columbia University Press, 2019), and The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024).
Dr. Subhrendu Pattanayak teaches at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, USA
Dr. V. Kerry Smith teaches at the Department of Economics from the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

Table of Contents

1. Modeling Coupled Climate, Ecosystems, and Economic SystemsWilliam A. Brock and Anastasios Xepapadeas2. Ecology and Economics in the Science of Anthropogenic Biosphere ChangeCharles Perrings and Ann Kinzig3. The Nature of Natural Capital and Ecosystem IncomeEli P. Fenichel, Joshua K. Abbott, and Seong Do Yun4. Through the Looking Glass: Environmental Health Economics in Low and Middle CountriesSubhrendu K. Pattanayak, Emily L. Pakhtigian, and Erin L. Litzow 5. The Farmer's Climate Change Adaptation Challenge in Least Developed CountriesMaximilian Auffhammer and Matthew E. Kahn6. Selection and Design of Environmental Policy InstrumentsThomas Sterner and Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson7. Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and ChallengesOlivier Deschenes and Kyle C. Meng8. Environmental Macroeconomics: The Case of Climate ChangeJohn Hassler and Per Krusell9. Causal inference in Environmental Conservation: The Role of InstitutionsErin Sills and Kelly Jones10. Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Environmental Economics: Conceptual IssuesGeoffrey Heal and Antony Millner

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Updates key theoretical insights from literature on economics with insights from the world of policy

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"Ten papers explore the impacts of climate change, focusing on the scale of these impacts, their associated policies, and people’s responses to them." —Journal of Economic Literature

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