Pricing Nature: Cost–Benefit Analysis and Environmental Policy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848444702 ISBN 13: 9781848444706

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is one of the most useful tools of applied economics for the social appraisal of public projects and government policies. Nick Hanley and Edward Barbier show how CBA can be applied to environmental policy choice and environmental resource management. They cover the conceptual underpinnings of CBA, practical methods for applying CBA, and a wide range of case study applications from Europe, North America and developing countries. Issues such as the value of ecosystem services and the special problems posed for CBA by environmental management are brought into close focus.

The textbook is aimed at students on inter-disciplinary courses as well as those studying environmental economics, welfare economics and public policy. It will also be of interest to people in the policy community, NGOs and consultancy sectors.

About this title

About the Author

Nick Hanley, Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Stirling, UK and Edward B. Barbier, John S. Bugas Professor of Economics, University of Wyoming, US

Review

`An impressive piece of work that deserves to be on every European agricultural economist's bookshelf.' -- Jean-Christophe Bureau, European Review of Agricultural Economics `This is an excellent text that could be used in specialist academic courses in environmental and natural resource economics, ecological economics and cost-benefit analysis, as well as in interdisciplinary courses in public policy, planning and environmental management.' -- David James, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1848444702
• ISBN 13: 9781848444706
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Hanley Nick, Barbier Edward B.