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<p><P><b>Applying Economics to the Environment</b> is distinguished from other books on environmental economics by its breadth of coverage and its in-depth discussions of several key topics. The book's broad scope includes a chapter on how models of the natural world interact with economic models in ways that are central to the conclusions economists reach. It devotes a chapter to contingent valuation, currently the hottest topic in the field. It also contains a chapter on monitoring and enforcement, a topic often completely ignored but central to considerations of instrument choice. In addition, the final four chapters deal with the special problems of developing countries and the environment, both their own and our shared global systems. In terms of depth, the book's discussion of contingent valuation and related direct damage or benefit estimation techniques is unmatched outside the specialist literature. Its coverage of the choices available among policy instruments goes far beyond the usual simple discussions contrasting what is misleadingly known as command control with so-called economic or market-based instruments. This coverage reveals the complexity of the choice and the

Author

Clifford S. Russell; Professor of Economics and Director Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies Clifford S Russell

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195126846

Subjects

Economics, Business