This is the second of two volumes of case studies that illustrate how environmental economists place values on environmental assets and on the flows of goods and services generated by those assets. This important book assembles studies that discuss broad areas of application of economic...

This chapter considers the ways in which research at the intersection of ecology and economics has strengthened our understanding of anthropogenic biosphere change. Three dimensions of the problem are addressed. The first is the linkages between the carrying and assimilative capacity of the...

A broad range of agriculture-environment interactions can be organized around the concept of agriculture as a producer and consumer of ecosystem services . Viewed as capital assets, ecosystems embody production technologies that are valuable, complex, and often poorly understood. The quantity...

Part I. Introduction and Overview -- 1. Overview -- Part II. The Taxation of Natural Resources and the Environment, Revenue Sharing and Revenue Fund Management -- 2. The Taxation of Natural Resources: Principles and Policy Issues -- 3. Green Taxes and Policies for Environmental Protection -- 4....