Economic theory for the environment : essays in honour of Karl-Göran Mäler / edited by Bengt Kriström, Partha Dasgupta, Karl-Gustaf Löfgren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mäler, Karl-Göran.

Kriström, Bengt.

Dasgupta, Partha.

Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf.

Series:

New horizons in environmental economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental economics.

Mäler, Karl-Göran.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : E. Elgar Pub., [2002]

Contents:

1 An example of dynamic control of negative stock externalities / Kenneth J. Arrow 1

2 An optimal R&D for a patent race with uncertain duration / Thomas Aronsson, Per-Olov Johansson, Karl-Gustaf Lofgren 13

3 The strategy of treaty negotiation: 'broad but shallow' versus 'narrow but deep' / Scott Barrett 26

4 A CGE analysis of sulfur deposition and Sweden's 'green' net national product / Lars Bergman 41

5 Biodiversity management under uncertainty: species selection and harvesting rules / William Brock, Anastasios Xepapadeas 62

6 The Kyoto Protocol: an economic and game-theoretic interpretation / Parkash Chander, Henry Tulkens, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Stephane Willems 98

7 A model of fertility transition / Partha Dasgupta 118

8 Notes on irreversibility, sustainability and the limits to growth / Anthony C. Fisher, Jinhua Zhao 129

9 The acid rain game: a formal and mathematically rigorous analysis / Henk Folmer, Pierre von Mouche 138

10 Bridging ecology and economics: reflections on the role of cost-benefit analysis and the design of interdisciplinary research / Ing-Marie Gren, Clifford S. Russell, Tore Soderqvist 162

11 Valuing ecosystem services / Geoffrey Heal 184

12 Hotelling (1925) on depreciation / Bengt Kristrom 195

13 Real versus hypothetical willingness to accept: the Bishop and Heberlein model revisited / Chuan-Zhong Li, Karl-Gustaf Lofgren, W. Michael Hanemann 205

14 An economic approach to the control of invasive species in aquatic systems / Charles Perrings 219

15 Global externalities: sovereign states / Domenico Siniscalco 235

16 What if Jevons had actually liked trees? / Robert M. Solow 247

17 Mobility and capitalization in local public finance: a reassessment / David A. Starrett 252

18 The core of the cooperative game associated with oligopoly firms / Hirofumo Uzawa 273

19 Highlighting the acid rain game / Aart de Zeeuw 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1840648872

OCLC:

48074817