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Title

The RFF reader in environmental and resource management / edited by Wallace E. Oates.

Publication

Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Oates, Wallace E.
• Resources for the Future

Description

xviii, 307 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

"RFF University Fellow Wallace Oates has assembled much of RFF's best work in a new volume that provides teachers and students, the public policy community, and informed readers with a broader, deeper perspective on natural resources and the environment. This treasure trove of balanced and authoritative analysis belongs on the bookshelf of any individual or institution concerned about environmental policy."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

RFF reader

Subject

Environmental policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• An economic perspective on environmental and resource management / W.E. Oates -- pt. 1. Science and environmental policy. What the science says : how we use it and abuse it to make health and environmental policy / J. Wilson -- Using science soundly : the Yucca Mountain standard / R.W. Fri -- pt. 2. Benefit-cost analysis. Economics clarified choices about managing risk / A.M. Freeman III -- Does environment policy conflict with economic growth? / D. Gardiner -- Health-based environmental standards : balancing costs with benefits / P.R. Portney -- Discounting the future : economics and ethics / T.J. Brennan -- When is a life too costly to save? : the evidence from environmental regulations / G.L. Van Houtven -- Assessing damages from the Valdez oil spill / A.M. Freeman III -- The Faustian bargain / A.V. Kneese.
• pt. 3. Environmental regulation. Taxing pollution / W.E. Oates -- Regulatory reform in air pollution control / T. Tietenberg -- Trading emissions to clean the air : exchanges few but savings many / D. Burtraw -- Shifting gears : new directions for cars and clean air / W. Harrington -- Will speeding the retirement of old cars improve air quality? / A. Alberini -- A voluntary approach to environmental regulation : the 33/50 Program / S. Arora -- Cleaning up superfund / P.R. Portney -- Reducing carbon emmissions : interactions with the tax system raise the cost / I.W.H. Parry -- pt. 4. Environmental federalism. Thinking about environmental federalism / W.E. Oates -- Environmental federalism / R.M. Schwab -- pt. 5. Resource management. Environmental values and water use ; Water as a source of international conflict ; Marketing water : the obstacles and the impetus / K.D. Frederick -- Ecosystem management : an uncharted path for public forests ; The global environmental effects of local logging cutbacks / R.A. Sedjo -- Twenty years after the energy crisis : what lessons were learned? / D.R. Bohi.
• pt. 6. Biodiversity. Preserving biodiversity as a resosurce / R.A. Sedjo -- Biodiversity prospecting : shopping the wilds is not the key to conservation ; Contracts for transferring rights to indigenous genetic resources / R.D. Simpson -- pt. 7. Environmental justice. Unpopular neighbors : are dumps and landfills sited equitably? / V. Been -- Measuring environmental equity with geographical information systems / T.S. Glickman -- Protest, property rights, and hazardous waste / R.C. Mitchell -- pt. 8. Global climate change. A "crash course" in climate policy / J.W. Anderson --Climate change and its consequences / M.A. Toman -- Adapting to climate change / P.R. Crosson -- A framework for climate change policy / M.A. Toman -- Global trade in greenhouse gas control : market merits and critics' concerns / J.B. Wiener -- pt. 9. Sustainable development. The difficulty in defining sustainability / M.A. Toman -- Sustainable agriculture / P.R. Crosson -- An almost practical step toward sustainability / R. Solow -- pt. 10. Environmental problems in developing amnd transitional countries. Environmental policies, economic restructuring, and institutional development in the former Soviet Union / M.A. Toman -- The allocation of environmental liabilities in Central and Eastern Europe / J. Boyd -- Cost-effective control of water pollution in Central and Eastern Europe / C.M. Paulsen -- Chongqing : a case study of environmental management during a period of rapid industrial development / W.O. Spofford Jr.

ISBN

0915707969 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98050115^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library