The theory and practice of environmental and resource economics : essays in honour of Karl-Gustaf Löfgren / edited by Thomas Aronsson, Roger Axelsson and Runar Brännlund.

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TextSeries: New horizons in environmental economicsEdward Elgar, 2006Description: xii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

1845426495
9781845426491

Subject(s):

Environmental economics

LOC classification:

HC79.E5 THE

Contents:

1. Sustainability : what does it tell us? / Geoffrey Heal 2. Environment and decision-making under risk and uncertainty / Karl-Goran Maler 3. Fisher, Lindahl, and hicks on income : a modern analysis / Chuan-Zhong Li 4. Consumer demand with several linear constraints : a global analysis / W. Michael Hanemann 5. Local public goods and income heterogeneity / Thomas Aronsson, Magnus Wikstrom, Kenneth Backlund and Tomas Sjogren 6. Public goods, optimal distortionary taxation and union wage setting / Thomas Aronsson, Kenneth Backlund, Tomas Sjogren and Magnus Wikstrom 7. Self-selection and the value of lives saved / Jason F. Shogren and Tommy Stamland 8. International fisheries agreements : the feasibility and impacts of partial cooperation / Kim Hang Pham Do and Henk Folmer 9. Salmon and hydropower : dynamic cost-benefit analysis / Cecilia Hakansson, Per-Olov Johansson and Bengt Kristrom 10. Trees vs. fish, or discrete vs. continuous harvesting / Martin L. Weitzman 11. Differentiating at the speed of light in a universe of trees and moose / Olvar Bergland, Richard Ready and Eirik Romstad 12. Empirical behaviour models on timber supply / Jari Kuuluvainen, Ibrahim Moulifla Favada and Jussi Uusivuori 13. Travelling waves in a modified hotelling population model / Tonu Puu 14. The optimal control of a stock pollutant with sunk capital and endogenous risk of catastrophic damages / Urvashi Narain and Anthony Fisher 15. Environmental performance in Swedish manufacturing, 1913-1990 / Bert M. Balk, Runar Brannlund, Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf and Magnus Lindmark 16. Assessing the economic impacts of large-scale environmental regulations in California / Peter Berck and H. Peter Hess 17. Voluntary road pricing / Lars Hultkrantz

Summary: A collection of specially commissioned papers that pays tribute to Karl-Gustaf Lofgren's significant and diverse contribution to theoretical and empirical research within the field of environmental and resource economics. It examines a range of topics including sustainability, risk and uncertainty, demand theory and issues related to public goods.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Sustainability : what does it tell us? / Geoffrey Heal
2. Environment and decision-making under risk and uncertainty / Karl-Goran Maler
3. Fisher, Lindahl, and hicks on income : a modern analysis / Chuan-Zhong Li
4. Consumer demand with several linear constraints : a global analysis / W. Michael Hanemann
5. Local public goods and income heterogeneity / Thomas Aronsson, Magnus Wikstrom, Kenneth Backlund and Tomas Sjogren
6. Public goods, optimal distortionary taxation and union wage setting / Thomas Aronsson, Kenneth Backlund, Tomas Sjogren and Magnus Wikstrom
7. Self-selection and the value of lives saved / Jason F. Shogren and Tommy Stamland
8. International fisheries agreements : the feasibility and impacts of partial cooperation / Kim Hang Pham Do and Henk Folmer
9. Salmon and hydropower : dynamic cost-benefit analysis / Cecilia Hakansson, Per-Olov Johansson and Bengt Kristrom
10. Trees vs. fish, or discrete vs. continuous harvesting / Martin L. Weitzman
11. Differentiating at the speed of light in a universe of trees and moose / Olvar Bergland, Richard Ready and Eirik Romstad
12. Empirical behaviour models on timber supply / Jari Kuuluvainen, Ibrahim Moulifla Favada and Jussi Uusivuori
13. Travelling waves in a modified hotelling population model / Tonu Puu
14. The optimal control of a stock pollutant with sunk capital and endogenous risk of catastrophic damages / Urvashi Narain and Anthony Fisher
15. Environmental performance in Swedish manufacturing, 1913-1990 / Bert M. Balk, Runar Brannlund, Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf and Magnus Lindmark
16. Assessing the economic impacts of large-scale environmental regulations in California / Peter Berck and H. Peter Hess
17. Voluntary road pricing / Lars Hultkrantz

A collection of specially commissioned papers that pays tribute to Karl-Gustaf Lofgren's significant and diverse contribution to theoretical and empirical research within the field of environmental and resource economics. It examines a range of topics including sustainability, risk and uncertainty, demand theory and issues related to public goods.

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