Handbook of Environmental Economics (Blackwell Handbooks in Economics) - Hardcover

9781557865069: Handbook of Environmental Economics (Blackwell Handbooks in Economics)

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ISBN 10: 155786506X ISBN 13: 9781557865069

Publisher: Blackwell Pub

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Based on 30 specially commissioned pieces by leading authorities in the field from the US and Europe, The Handbook of Environmental Economics is a comprehensive volume about environmental and natural resource economics.

It covers the full range of issues presently at the forefront of environmental policy including key aspects of such critical areas as:

* Pollution

* Resource stocks

* Sustainability

* Global environmental policy

* Land use conflicts

From zoning to minerals policy the Handbook provides expert background and analysis that brings the two major fields of environmental and natural resource economics together for the first time in one volume.

The Handbook will be invaluable to students, researchers and faculty as well as to policy makers and those with a wider interest in the issues.

About the Author:

Daniel W. Bromley is Anderson-Bascom Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He has been editor of the journal Land Economics since 1974. He has worked throughout the world on a variety of enviroenmental topics. He is currently working in South Africa on a new enviroenment policy for the post-apartheid government and is conducting research in Russia on the emerging land market.

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