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Environmental Economics and Public Policy

, 2000
This collection of 23 essays on environmental economics and policy is divided into seven parts that examine benefits and costs, normative and positive analysis of policy instruments, environmental technology, land-use changes, and global climate policy.
Robert Stavins
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Public policy and clean technology promotion. The synergy between environmental economics and evolutionary economics of technological change

, 2004
Obstacles to clean technology development, innovation and diffusion are not only related to the lack of internalisation of environmental externalities in production costs, as defended by traditional environmental economics.
P. González
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The role of economics in environmental policy

Science of The Total Environment, 1991
Abstract Economic growth will almost certainly continue. Although there are those who dispute the compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainability, it is likely that future economic development will be increasingly based on the principle of sustainability.
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Environmental Quality as a Target of Economic Policy [PDF]

International Journal of Social Economics, 1991
Environmental degradation manifests itself both at the local and the global level. In order to avoid further environmental degradation environmental quality should be considered as a target of economic policy. The article provides a documentary overview of important environmental studies and shows the results of an empirical scenario study for The ...
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Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future

Journal of Economic Literature
Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a novel computational methodology for representing the behavior of individuals in order to study social phenomena. Its use is rapidly growing in many fields. We review ABM in economics and finance and highlight how it can be
Robert L. Axtell, J. D. Farmer
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Environmental Economics: Theory and Policy

, 2010
Part I. The Internalization of Externalities as Central Theme of Environmental Policy: 1. Foundations 2. Implications of making the concept of internalization programmatic in environment policy Part II.

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Behavioral economics for environmental policy

Ecological Economics, 2008
Abstract The predictions of widely prescribed global and country level environmental policies at present are based mainly on mainstream economic models, which treat individual actors to be ‘unboundedly rational’ in their decision making. In recent years, however, behavioral and experimental economists have found that the individual actors in many ...
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Economic Valuations and Environmental Policy

2012
The first edition of this unique Handbook was praised for its substantial and invaluable summary discussions of work by anthropologists on economic processes and issues, on the relationship between economic and non-economic areas of life and on the conceptual orientations that are important among economic anthropologists.
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Environmental Economics: Theory, Application, and Policy

, 1999
I. ECONOMIC THEORY, CONCEPTS, AND METHODS. 1. Competition, Monopoly, and Social Welfare. 2. Measuring Economic Welfare and Environmental Quality. 3. Valuing the Environment and Benefit-Cost Analysis. 4. Benefit-Cost Analysis and Discounting. 5.
D. Chapman
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Environmental-economic policy assessment: A farm economic approach

Agricultural Systems, 1992
Abstract Increasing environmental problems in agriculture urge policy-makers to develop instruments to reduce and control the pollution caused by current intensive farming practices. These measures should be both effective from the ecological point of view, which is a public goal, as well as acceptable at the farm level with regard to private goals ...
Wossink, G.A.A., de Koeijer, T.J., Renkema, J.A.   +2 more
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