Integrating Economic and Ecological Indicators: Practical Methods for Environmental Policy Analysis

by J. Walter Milon, Jason Shogren

Overview

Recent international appeals for sustainable development policies have renewed efforts to explore the common ground between economics and ecology. This volume presents a collection of papers from leading researchers around the world, who evaluate the analytical foundations and empirical systems that are being developed to integrate economic and environmental indicators. These specialists identify key data requirements and modeling systems. Economists, ecologists, and policy makers will find this work introducing integrated modeling systems thought-provoking and useful.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275949839
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/18/1995
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

J. WALTER MILON is Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Economics in the Food and Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida, Gainesville. His primary research interests are environmental resource valuation, fisheries and marine systems, and environmental policy. He served as chair of the Resource Policy Consortium in 1993-94 and is currently an associate editor of Marine Resource Economics.

JASON F. SHOGREN is an Associate Professor of Economics at Iowa State whose major field of interest is environmental and resource economics. He is an associate editor of the Jourbanal of Environmental Economics and Management and serves on the Editorial Board of Environmental and Resource Economics. He received the 1992 Iowa State Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Research and was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of the new School of Environmental and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming.

Table of Contents

Preface
Background
Economics, Ecology, and the Art of Integration by J. Walter Milon and Jason F. Shogren
Old Lessons and New Contexts in Economic-Ecological Modeling by Clifford S. Russell
Ecosystem Functions, Economics, and the Ability to Function by Thomas D. Crocker
Micro Level Indicators
Integrated Ecological Economic Systems Modeling: Theoretical Issues and Practical Applications by Robert Costanza, Lisa Wainger, and Nancy Bockstael
CEEPES: An Evolving System for Agroenvironmental Policy by Aziz Bouzaher, Richard Cabe, Stanley R. Johnson, Andrew Manale, and Jason F. Shogren
Integration of Economic and Ecological Modeling for Agriculture in the Netherlands by Nico J. P. Hoogervorst
Dynamic Analysis of Economic Development and Natural Environment on the Greek Sporades Islands by Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh
Macro Level Indicators
Environmental and Natural Resources in National Economic Accounts by J. Walter Milon
Towards a System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA) by Peter Bartelmus
Accounting for the Environment in Scandinavia by Bengt Kriström
National and GIS-Based Regional Resource Accounting in Australia by Michael D. Young, Paul Walker, Thilak Mallawaarachchi, and Bod Smyth
Epilogue by Jason F. Shogren and J. Walter Milon
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Ten papers, revised from presentations at a May 1993 symposium sponsored by the World Bank in Washington, DC, explore approaches and models to combining economic and ecological analysis at both micro- and macro-levels. They include a brief history of such attempts, theoretical and practical issues, and case studies from the Netherlands, Greece, Scandinavia, and Australia. Addressed to non-specialist natural and social scientists and policy makers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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