The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource ManagementWallace E. Oates Resources for the Future, 1999 - 307 pages This volume seeks to provide teachers and students, the public policy community and informed citizens with a broader and deeper perspective on natural resources and the environment. Much of the material in the reader comes from Resources, the Resources for the Future quarterly publication. Wallace E. Oates has supplemented this with other important RFF work in climate change and sustainability. He has assembled many of the most requested articles to emerge from RFF. The book includes sections on key environmental topics such as benefit-cost analysis, environmental regulation and environmental justice. There is a section devoted to environmental problems in developing nations and transitional economies. Natural resource topics include resource management, biodiversity, and sustainable development. The articles address many difficult public policy questions, such as: does environmental policy conflict with economic growth; and when is a life too costly to save? Among the other issues addressed are emissions trading, environmental damage assessment, Superfund, biodiversity, forest management, waste-facility siting, and sustainable agriculture. |
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Contents
The Yucca Mountain Standard | 7 |
Economics Clarifies Choices about Managing Risk | 15 |
Does Environmental Policy Conflict with Economic Growth? | 21 |
Balancing Costs | 27 |
Economics and Ethics | 35 |
When Is a Life Too Costly To Save? The Evidence from | 43 |
Assessing Damages from the Valdez Oil Spill | 51 |
Regulatory Reform in Air Pollution Control | 69 |
Water as a Source of International Conflict | 137 |
The Global Environmental Effects of Local Logging Cutbacks | 155 |
Preserving Biodiversity as a Resource | 171 |
Are Dumps and Landfills Sited | 191 |
Protest Property Rights and Hazardous Waste | 205 |
Cimate Change and Its Consequences | 225 |
Market Merits | 243 |
Sustainable Agriculture | 257 |
Will Speeding the Retirement of Old Cars Improve Air Quality? | 89 |
Cleaning Up Superfund | 105 |
Thinking about Environmental Federalism | 119 |
Environmental Problems in Developing | 273 |
CostEffective Control of Water Pollution | 289 |
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References to this book
Environmental Conflict: In Search of Common Ground Jeffrey J. Pompe,James R. Rinehart Limited preview - 2002 |