"The first edition of this important work was the winner of the 2002 Publication of Enduring Quality award by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. The continuing premise for the book is that estimates of the economic values of environmental and natural resource services are...

1. Resource evaluation and public policy -- 2. Measuring values, benefits, and costs : an overview -- 3. Welfare measures : definitions and concepts -- 4. Welfare measures : theoretical basis for empirical assessment -- 5. Valuing changes in risk -- 6. Aggregation of values across time -- 7....

Although climate change has largely been removed from the federal policy agenda of the United States in the near term, the continued reliance on fossil fuels as a dominant energy source leaves many analysts to conclude that climate policy will eventually reappear on that agenda. We present a...