RFF reader in environmental and resource policy

Rev. ed. of: The RFF reader in environmental and resource management. c1999.

"An RFF Press book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An economic perspective on environmental policy and resource management : an introduction / Wallace E. Oates -- What the science says : how we use it and abuse it to make health and environmental policy / James Wilson, J. W. Anderson -- Using science soundly : the Yucca Mountain standard / Robert W. Fri -- Economics clarifies choices about managing risk / Myrick Freeman III, Paul R. Portney -- Health-based environmental standards : balancing costs with benefits / Paul R. Portney, Winston Harrington -- Discounting the future : economics and ethics / Timothy J. Brennan -- Time and money : discounting's problematic allure / Paul R. Portney -- How much will people pay for longevity? / Alan J. Krupnick -- The Faustian bargain : risk, ethics, and nuclear energy / Allen V. Kneese -- Market-based approaches to environmental policy : a 'refresher' course / Paul R. Portney -- Trading cases : five examples of the use of markets in environmental and resource management / James Boyd ... [et al.] --

Economics incentives versus command and control / Winston Harrington, Richard D. Morgenstem -- Unleashing the Clean Water Act : the promise and challenge of the TMDL approach to water quality / Jim Boyd -- Penny-wise and pound-fuelish? : new car mileage standards in the United States / Paul R. Partney -- Is gasoline undertaxed in the United States? / Ian Parry -- Pay as you slow : road pricing to reduce traffic congestion / Ion Parry, Elena Safirova -- Cleaner air, cleaner water : one can lead to the other in the Chesapeake Bay / Anonymous -- Accounting for the environment / Spencer Banzhaf -- Greening the GDP : is it desirable? Is it feasible? / Joel Darmstadter -- Environmental federalism / Robert M. Schwab -- The arsenic rule : a case for decentralized standard setting? / Wallace E. Oates -- The interstate transport of air pollution : a regulatory dilemma / Alan Krupnick, Jhih-Shyang Shih --

State innovation for environmental improvements : experimental federalism / Winston Harrington, Karen L. Palmer, Margaret Walls -- Catching market efficiencies : quota-based fisheries management / James Sanchirico, Richard Newell -- Marketing water : the obstacles and the impetus / Kenneth D. Frederick -- Ecosystem management : an uncharted path for public forests / Roger A. Sedjo -- Carving out some space : a guide to land preservation strategies / James Boyd, Kathryn Caballero, R. David Simpson -- A market approach to land preservation / Virginia McConnell, Margaret Walls, Elizabeth Kopits -- Preserving biodiversity as a resource / Roger A. Sedjo -- Cost-effective conservation : a review of what works to preserve biodiversity / Paul Ferraro, R. David Simpson -- Setting energy policy in the modern era : tough challenges lie ahead / William A. Pizer -- Petroleum : energy independence is unrealistic / Ian W. H. Parry, J. W. Anderson -- Coal : dirty cheap energy / J. W. Anderson -- Nuclear power : clean, costly, and controversial / Paul R. Portney -- Renewable sources of electricity : safe bet or tilting at windmills? / Joel Damstadter, Karen Palmer --

The effectiveness and cost of energy efficiency programs / Kenneth Gillingham, Richard Newell, Karen Palmer -- Climate change and climate policy / J. W. Anderson -- How much climate change is too much? : an economics perspective / Jason F. Shogren, Michael A. Taman -- Choosing price or quantity controls for greenhouse gases / William A. Pizer -- Rethinking fossil fuels : the necessary step toward practical climate policy / Raymond J. Kapp -- Forest "sinks" as a tool for climate-change policymaking / Roger A. Sedjo -- The difficulty in defining sustainability / Michael A. Toman -- An almost practical step toward sustainability / Robert Solow -- Are market-based instruments the right first choice for countries in transition? / Ruth Greenspan Bell -- Demonstrating emissions trading in Taiyuan, China / Richard D. Morgenstem ... [et al.] -- Saving the trees by helping the poor : a look at small producers along Brazil's Transamazon Highway / Charles Wood, Robert Walker -- Small is not necessarily beautiful : coping with dirty microenterprises in developing countries / Allen Blackman -- New investment abroad : can it reduce Chinese greenhouse gas emissions? / Allen Blackman -- Fighting antibiotic resistance : can economic incentives play a role? / Ramanan Laxminarayan -- Fending off invasive species : can we draw the line without turning to trade tariffs? / Michael Margolis -- Forty years in an emerging field : economics and environmental policy in retrospect / Wallace E. Oates.