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The Handbook of Environmental Economics

ISBN: 978-1-557-86641-7

March 1995

Wiley-Blackwell

720 pages

Description
Based on 30 specially commissioned pieces by leading authorities in the field from the US and Europe, The Handbook of Environmental Economics represents the most comprehensive volume of environmental and natural resource economics published to date. It covers the full range of issues presently at the forefront of environmental policy including key aspects of such critical areas as pollution, sustainability and global environmental policy. It is essential reading for 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.
Features
* Based on specially commissioned pieces by leading authorities in the field, this represents the most comprehensive colume of environmental and natural resource economics published to date.
* 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.
* Invaluable to students, researchers and faculty as well as to policy makers and those with a wider interest in these issues.