| Description |
227 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
New horizons in environmental economics |
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New horizons in environmental economics.
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| Contents |
Pt. I. Market Failure. 1. Market Solutions to Externality Problems: Theory and Practice. 2. Market Failure and the Efficiency of Irrigated Agriculture -- Pt. II. Benefit Cost Analysis. 3. Taking Benefits and Costs Seriously. 4. Consumer's Surplus in Commodity Space. 5. Too Many Proposals Pass the Benefit Cost Test. 6. Bidding Games for Valuation of Aesthetic Environmental Improvements. 7. Valuing Increments and Decrements in Natural Resource Service Flows. 8. Existence Value in a Total Valuation Framework. 9. A Satisfactory Benefit Cost Indicator from Contingent Valuation. 10. Total and Nonuse Values. 11. A Difficulty with the Travel Cost Method -- Pt. III. Sustainability and Biodiversity. 12. What Mainstream Economists Have to Say About the Value of Biodiversity. 13. Thinking about the Value of Biodiversity. 14. The Rationality of a Safe Minimum Standard -- Pt. IV. Methodology. 15. Methodology, Ideology, and the Economics of Policy: Why Resource Economists Disagree |
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16. What Practicing Agricultural Economists Really Need to Know About Methodology |
| Summary |
"Making the Environment Count brings together, in one accessible volume, an outstanding selection of Alan Randall's essays published over the past 30 years. It explores ideas on making the environment count from a conceptual perspective and addresses a range of topics pertinent to the study of environmental economics."--BOOK JACKET. "By improving access to Alan Randall's many important contributions, this volume makes a significant addition to the literature and will be welcomed by environmental economists."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
A selection of 17 book chapters and journal articles previously published 1972-1999 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Biodiversity.
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Environmental economics.
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Sustainable development.
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Environmental policy.
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| LC no. |
99017604 |
| ISBN |
1840640863 |
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