The Economics of the Environment

By: Wallace E. Oates (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 1992

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Bringing together major articles on the economics of the environment and natural resources, this book encompasses works on the theory of externalities and its application to environmental regulation, techniques for the valuation of environmental amenities, the theory and management of common property resources, and the intertemporal analysis of managing both exhaustable and renewable resources. These papers represent the ongoing research in environmental and natural resource economics.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Production, Consumption, and Externalities	p. 3
On Taxation and the Control of Externalities	p. 21
Effluent Regulation and Long-Run Optimality	p. 37
Detrimental Externalities and Non-Convexity of the Production Set	p. 51
The Problem of Social Cost	p. 68
On Divergences between Social Cost and Private Cost	p. 112
Prices vs. Quantities	p. 117
Uncertainty and the Choice of Pollution Control Instruments	p. 132
Effluent Charges and Licenses Under Uncertainty	p. 143
The Use of Standards and Prices for Protection of the Environment	p. 161
Land, Water, and Ownership	p. 174
Markets in Licenses and Efficient Pollution Control Programs	p. 188
Transferable Discharge Permits and the Control of Stationary Source Air Pollution: A Survey and Synthesis	p. 212
Transferable Discharge Permits and Economic Efficiency: The Fox River	p. 238
An Empirical Analysis of Economic Strategies for Controlling Air Pollution	p. 248
Effluent Fees and Market Structure	p. 261
Economic Prescriptions for Environmental Problems: How the Patient Followed the Doctor's Orders	p. 279
Methods of Measuring the Demand for and Value of Outdoor Recreation	p. 301
Comparisons of Methods for Recreation Evaluation	p. 337
A Method of Estimating Social Benefits from Pollution Control	p. 355
The Determinants of Residential Property Values with Special Reference to Air Pollution	p. 368
Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Product Differentiation in Pure Competition	p. 380
Welfare Measurement in the Household Production Framework	p. 402
The Economic Losses of a Waterborne Disease Outbreak	p. 411
Collective-Consumption Services of Individual-Consumption Goods	p. 433
Bidding Games for Valuation of Aesthetic Environmental Improvements	p. 440
Valuing Public Goods: A Comparison of Survey and Hedonic Approaches	p. 458
Willingness To Pay and Willingness To Accept: How Much Can They Differ?	p. 471
Social Cost of Environmental Quality Regulations: A General Equilibrium Analysis	p. 484
The Economics of Enforcing Air Pollution Controls	p. 507
Firm Behavior Under Imperfectly Enforceable Pollution Standards and Taxes	p. 525
Enforcement Leverage When Penalties Are Restricted	p. 543
Conservation Reconsidered	p. 571
The Economics of Environmental Preservation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis	p. 581
Environmental Preservation, Uncertainty, and Irreversibility	p. 596
Name Index	p. 605
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