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Handbook of Environmental Economics

  • 1st Edition, Volume 4 - October 17, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Partha Dasgupta, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, V. Kerry Smith
  • Language: English

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… Read more

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Description

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?

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Faculty, graduate students and policy analysts in environmental agencies around the world

Table of contents

1. Modeling Coupled Climate, Ecosystems, and Economic Systems
William A. Brock and Anastasios Xepapadeas

2. Ecology and Economics in the Science of Anthropogenic Biosphere Change
Charles Perrings and Ann Kinzig

3. The Nature of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Income
Eli P. Fenichel, Joshua K. Abbott, and Seong Do Yun

4. Through the Looking Glass: Environmental Health Economics in Low and Middle Countries
Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Emily L. Pakhtigian, and Erin L. Litzow

5. The Farmer’s Climate Change Adaptation Challenge in Least Developed Countries
Maximilian Auffhammer and Matthew E. Kahn

6. Selection and Design of Environmental Policy Instruments
Thomas Sterner and Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson

7. Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and Challenges
Olivier Deschenes and Kyle C. Meng

8. Environmental Macroeconomics: The Case of Climate Change
John Hassler and Per Krusell

9. Causal inference in Environmental Conservation: The Role of Institutions
Erin Sills and Kelly Jones

10. Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Environmental Economics: Conceptual Issues
Geoffrey Heal and Antony Millner

Review quotes

"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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 4
  • Published: October 24, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Partha Dasgupta

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).
Affiliations and expertise
Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University, UK

SP

Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

Dr. Subhrendu Pattanayak teaches at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, USA
Affiliations and expertise
Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

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V. Kerry Smith

Dr. V. Kerry Smith teaches at the Department of Economics from the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Economics, W. P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, AZ, USA

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