Topics in Environmental Economics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Policy Instruments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Markets for Tradeable CO2 Emission Quotas: Principles and Practice

      • Graciela Chichilnisky, Geoffrey Heal

      Pages 3-32

   3. Costs of Uniform and Differentiated Charges on a Polluting Input: An Application to Nitrogen Fertilisers in Sweden

      • Runar Brännlund, Ing-Marie Gren

      Pages 33-49

3. Cost-Benefit Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. On the Proper Treatment of Defensive Expenditures in “Green” NNP Measures

      • Thomas Aronsson, Per-Olov Johansson, Karl-Gustaf Löfgren

      Pages 53-61

   3. Preserving Species without an Endangered Species Act: British Columbia’s Forest Practices Code

      • G. Cornelis Van Kooten

      Pages 63-82

   4. A Cost-Benefit Analysis of an Alternative Waste Treatment in Northern Norway. Use of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) instead of Coal in an Industrial Process. A Preliminary Analysis

      • Jan Åge Riseth, Yngve Torbergsen

      Pages 83-94

4. Cost Efficiency

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Emission Constraints, Emission Permits and Marginal Abatement Costs

      • Geoffrey Heal

      Pages 97-107

   3. Wetlands as a Nitrogen Sink — Estimation of Costs in the Laholm Bay

      • Olof Byström

      Pages 109-120

   4. Cost Effective Reductions in the Agricultural Load of Nitrogen to the Baltic Sea

      • Katarina Elofsson

      Pages 121-154

5. Contingent Valuation — Theory and Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. Valuing the Wolf in Sweden: Are Benefits Contingent on the Supply?

      • Mattias Boman, Göran Bostedt

      Pages 157-174

   3. A Test of Nonresponse Bias in a Mail Contingent Valuation Survey

      • Peter Fredman

      Pages 175-186

   4. Determination of WTP for a Change in Water Quality with Free Selection of Reference Points

      • Erkki Mäntymaa

      Pages 187-202

6. Experimental Economics and the Contingent Valuation Method

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Statistical Bias Functions: The Alchemy of Contingent Valuation?

      • Peter Frykblom

      Pages 205-216

   3. Environmental Damage Assessment with Hypothetical Surveys: The Calibration Approach

      • Glenn W. Harrison, Robert L. Beekman, Lloyd B. Brown, Leianne A. Clements, T. M. McDaniel, Sherry L. Odom et al.

      Pages 217-240

7. Back Matter

   Pages 241-247

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This book shows, we believe, the breadth and the complexity of issues that econo­ mists now tackle in their analysis of the connections between the ecosystem and the economic system. The book offers contributions to such disparate issues as the value of preserving the wolf in Sweden and the proper distribution of permits in an effective global warming treaty. Because these questions remain at the fore­ front of important resource allocation problems that need to be confronted, it is only appropriate that they are represented in a book that intends to paint a picture, albeit certainly incomplete, of the vibrant and progressing state of environmental economics. The contributions cover five areas of environmental economics: policy instru­ ments, cost-benefit analysis, cost-efficiency, contingent valuation and experimental economics. Each area is worthy of a book by itself, but here we have made a point of focusing on problems that seem directly applicable to the pressing policy issues of today. Thus, the contributors address topics that are directly relevant to interna­ tional and regional policy making, as well as those that are linked to development of supporting information systems (e.g. resource accounting). In addition, the con­ tributions seek to provide high-level applications of measurement techniques as well as pertinent critiques of these methods. The next section provides a summary overview of the book.

• Baltic Sea
• CO2 Emission
• economics
• environment
• environmental economics
• environmental policy
• sweden
• climate change

• Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

  Mattias Boman, Bengt Kriström

• Department of Economics, Umeå University, Sweden

  Runar Brännlund

Policies and ethics