Modern Cost–Benefit Analysis of Hydropower Conflicts - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849808805 ISBN 13: 9781849808804

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

This important book sheds light on the ways in which modern tools of welfare economics can be used to assess the benefits and costs of resource conflicts involving hydropower. The chapters highlight key methodological issues in this area; ranging from the intersection between cost benefit analysis and behavioral economics, to the value of load balancing services provided by hydropower. The inclusion of insights from expert contributors from both sides of the Atlantic brings a unique and interesting range of viewpoints to the work.

Several factors suggest that resource conflicts involving moving water are likely to be even more difficult to resolve today than they have been in the past. The contributors, top scholars in resource economics, consider a variety of issues through the lens of cost benefit analysis. In the first part of the book, they address specific cases and issues from North America and Europe. The book closes with a more general look at the topic.

Academics and students interested in applied welfare economics, especially cost benefit analysis and energy economics, along with government officials in the energy environment nexus and private sector analysts will all find much of interest and value in this volume.

Contributors include: J. Duffield, F. Forsund, N. Hanley, L. Hjalmarsson, P.-O. Johansson, Y. Ju, B. Kristrom, J. Loomis, E.M. Moore, B. Ranneby, V.K. Smith

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Edited by Per-Olov Johansson, Professor of Economics (Emeritus), Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden and Guest Professor, CERE, SLU and Umea University, Sweden and Bengt Kristrom, Professor of Resource Economics, CERE, SLU and Umea University, Sweden

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849808805
• ISBN 13: 9781849808804
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Johansson Per-Olov, Kriström Bengt