’Environmental Economics for Sustainable Growth’ is a long awaited handbook for practitioners in environmental economics and policy. This is the first book which comprehensively describes the environment-economy link at both the macro and micro level, puts it in the framework of sustainable development, and focuses on environmental valuation techniques as the key to operationalizing sustainable development at both the macro policy level and the micro level of project and program evaluation. The book also describes in a step-by-step fashion how to perform environmental valuation studies in developing countries and transition economics, and again illustrates the methodologies in an axcellent way with empirical studies. This book also provides up to date information on environmental economics and its applications to practical policy. It is clearly written and will be a valuable resource for a wide range of readers, including researchers, trainers, policy analysts and students. Contents: List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes Foreword Acknowledgments 1. Introduction and structure PART I. ECONOMY-WIDE POLICIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT 2. Sustainable development vision in a global context 3. Macroeconomic policies and the environment 4. Sectoral policies and the environment 5. Policies, instruments and the environment 6. Laws, regulations and institutions 7. National environmental strategies 8. Economy-wide policies and the valuation of environmental impacts PART II. ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION METHODS FOR POLICIES AND PROJECTS 9. Economic principles and overview of valuation methods 10. Revealed preference: direct proxy methods 11. Revealed preference: indirect proxy methods 12. Stated preference: contingent valuation methods 13. Use of monetary values of environmental and natural resources for benefit-cost analysis: an application to a soil moisture conservation project in Tunisia 14. Use of monetary values of environmental and natural resources in the framework of national accounts: an application to Costa Rica 15. Valuing health impacts: a case study of air pollution in New Delhi, India Index
Post Date : 10 September 2008
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