Environmental Degradation and Institutional Responses

✍ Scribed by Karl-Göran Mäler and Jeffrey R. Vincent (Eds.)

• Publisher: North Holland
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 548
• Series: Handbook of Environmental Economics 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Handbook of Environmental Economics focuses on the economics of environmental externalities and environmental public goods. Volume I examines environmental degradation and policy responses from a microeconomic, institutional standpoint. Its perspective is dynamic, including a consideration of the dynamics of natural systems, and global, with attention paid to issues in both rich and poor nations. In addition to chapters on well-established topics such as the theory and practice of pollution regulation, it includes chapters on new areas of environmental economics research related to common property management regimes; population and poverty; mechanism design; political economy of regulation; experimental evaluations of policy instruments; and technological change

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Introduction to the series
Page v
Kenneth J. Arrow, Michael D. Intriligator

Contents of the handbook
Pages vii-viii

Dedication
Page ix
Allen Kneese

Preface to the handbook
Pages xi-xvi
Karl-Göran Mäler, Jeffrey R. Vincent

Perspectives on environmental economics
Pages 1-6

Chapter 1 Geophysical and geochemical aspects of environmental degradation Review Article
Pages 7-59
Bert Bolin

Chapter 2 Ecosystem dynamics Review Article
Pages 61-95
Simon A. Levin, Stephen W. Pacala

Chapter 3 property rights, public goods and the environment Review Article
Pages 97-125
David A. Starrett

Chapter 4 Economics of common property management regimes Review Article
Pages 127-190
Jean-Marie Baland, Jean-Philippe Platteau

Chapter 5 Population, poverty, and the natural environment Review Article
Pages 191-247
Partha Dasgupta

Chapter 6 The theory of pollution policy Review Article
Pages 249-303
Gloria E. Helfand, Peter Berck, Tim Maull

Chapter 7 Mechanism design for the environment Review Article
Pages 305-324
Sandeep Baliga, Eric Maskin

Chapter 8 The political economy of environmental policy Review Article
Pages 325-354
Wallace E. Oates, Paul R. Portney

Chapter 9 Experience with market-based environmental policy instruments Review Article
Pages 355-435
Robert N. Stavins

Chapter 10 Experimental evaluations of policy instruments Review Article
Pages 437-460
Peter Bohm

Chapter 11 Technological change and the environment Review Article
Pages 461-516
Adam B. Jaffe, Richard G. Newell, Robert N. Stavins

Author index
Pages I-1-I-21

Subject index
Pages I-23-I-29