This comprehensive Dictionary brings together an extensive range of definitive terms in ecological economics. Assembling contributions from distinguished scholars, it provides an intellectual map to this evolving subject ranging from the practical to the philosophical. Following an insightful...

This chapter contributes to efforts to improve the accuracy of estimating damages resulting from climate change. It examines potential hydrological impacts on California, and how the state might adapt. For a doubled-CO2 scenario, general circulation models coupled with California hydrological...

The Handbook on Contingent Valuation is unique in that it focuses on contingent valuation as a method for evaluating environmental change. It examines econometric issues, conceptual underpinnings, implementation issues as well as alternatives to contingent valuation. Anna Alberini and James Kahn...

This paper considers the retail water provider’s purchasing decision of a portfolio of permanent contracts from wholesalers with multiple volatile water sources. We consider the reliability of two contract types: (1) fixed annual quantities, and (2) an inflow harvest function with storage. Our...

While the United States is perceived to be the world leader in applying economic instruments to reach pollution reduction targets, many other OECD and East European countries are also applying these tools. And though much has been written about the US experience—offsets, bubbles, netting,...

Interconnection between centralised and decentralised electrical power sources remains a contentious issue on technical, economic, and policy grounds. This paper considers the problem of interconnection as a property rights problem – one that involves allocation conflicts and pressures...