Key Features:Demonstrates how theoretical approaches - particularly dynamic and stochastic approaches - can yield insights into the resource and environmental problems of developing nationsAnalyzes the desirability of certain common resource use practices from an integrated ecological-economic...

Conditions of poverty in Indian country are often compared to those of developing nations. As astonishing as it may seem to an outsider, many Indian reservations exist without a basic infrastructure of roads, plumbing, electricity, access to healthcare, and criminal law enforcement. These...

Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...

In this research, the intertemporal optimal management of subsidies offered by the environmental regulator and the dynamic conflict between two groups of economic agents involved in environmental quality are discussed. First the environmental model is examined in its optimal control management...

An ecosystem assessment is a social process through which the findings of science concerning the causes of ecosystem change, their consequences for human well-bring, and the management and policy options are evaluated. Ecosystem assessments can play an important role in synthesising and...