Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

This volume considers, in depth, some valuation methods and aspects of cost benefit analysis, and policy making in environmental economics. Part I contains a number of contingent valuation studies for non-market assets. Part II consists of contributions on the valuation of health and life, and deals with the benefits of reduced morbidity from air pollution control. In Part III, cost benefit analysis for environmental policy-making is discussed in a disequilibrium setting, and in a macroeconomic context. Finally, Part IV deals with aspects of policy-making, particularly benefit estimation for complex policies, and the international aspects of transboundary air pollution in Europe. The book should not only appeal to students and researchers in university departments of economics and ``environmental sciences'' but also to those working in public organisations and associated advisory institutes which are concerned with environmental problems.

"Selected and integrated papers from the Congress "Environmental policy in a market economy," Wageningen, The Netherlands, 8-11 September 1987."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Valuation methods and policy making in environmental economics : relevance and scope / Henk Folmer and Ekko van Ierland -- Non-market asset prices : a comparison of three valuation approaches / Ralph C. d'Arge and Jason F. Shogren -- Valuing public goods in a risky world : an experiment / Per-Olov Johansson -- Recreational values, Pareto optimality and timber supply / Per-Olov Johansson, Karl-Gustaf Löfgren and Karl-Göran Mäler -- Estimating social benefits of environmental improvements from reduced acid rain deposition : a contingent valuation survey / Ståle Navrud -- Benefits of reduced morbidity from air pollution control : a survey / Mark Dickie and Shelby Gerking -- Valuing a public good : direct and indirect valuation approaches to the measurement of the benefits from air pollution abatement / Mordechai Shechter, Moshe Kim and Lorette Golan.

Environmental regulation and the valuation of life : interindustry mobility and the market price of safety / Henry W. Herzog Jr. and Alan M. Schlottmann -- Disequilibrium cost benefit rules : an exposition and extension / Per-Olov Johansson and Karl-Gustaf Löfgren -- Macroeconomic cost benefit analysis of environmental programmes / Andries Nentjes -- Benefit estimation for complex policies / Alan Randall and John Hoehn -- The acid rain game / Karl-Göran Mäler.

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