Introduction to Environmental Economics

324 Pages·2019·20.116 MB·English

by  Nick Hanley, Jason Shogren, Ben White

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Introduction to
Environmental
Economics
Professor Nick Hanley
Professoro fE conomics, University of Stirling
Professor Jason F. Shogren
Stroock Professor of Natural Resource Conservation and
Management, University of Wyoming
Dr Ben White
Professor in the School of Agricultural and Resource Economics,
University of Western Australia
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Acknowledgements
The authors thank staff at OUP for all their hard work and encouragement. Nick thanks Mik
Czajkowski and Dervla Brennan for help on several chapters, and Jack Pezzey for many discussions.
He also thanks the Crawford School, Australian National University, for their hospitality whilst
writing the final drafts. Ben would like to thank Michael Burton for his insights into environmental
economics and Deborah Swindells for administrative support. Jason thanks his teachers and students
over the years for their willingness to share ideas, agreeably and otherwise.
New to this Edition
Building on the success of the first edition, the second edition of an Introduction to Environmental
Economics features the following updated material:
e Substantial revision of all existing chapters
e Greater focus on environmental policy and management links to policy issues which have
recently emerged
e Updating of box sections with recent findings from the literature
® New pedagogical features including tutorial questions and definitions.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
‘Tt bases heavily on empirical evidence and also provides an extensive number of examples, which explain
well definitions mentioned in the text.’
Leon Vinokur, Queen Mary, University of London
‘The writing style is of a high quality and is pitched at the appropriate level for an introduction to
Environmental Economics. Economic concepts are introduced using easy-to-understand language and
examples.’
Professor Mike Christie, Aberystwyth University