Frontiers of Environmental Economics

Edited by Henk Folmer, Professor of Research Methodology, Groningen University and Professor of General Economics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, H. Landis Gabel, Professor of Economics and Management and Associate Dean, INSEAD, France, Shelby Gerking, Galloway Professor, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, US and Adam Rose, University of Southern California, US

'This is a book of uncompromising technical excellence, which does exactly what it promises to do: chart the cutting-edge frontiers of environmental and ecological economics, for the benefit of graduate students, professional academics, and policy making elites. The authors are mostly academic leaders in the field, the topics are hot . . . the contributors make the links between abstract theorizing and the concrete mental framing of issues that is a prerequisite for sound policy design . . . The papers in this collection exhibit rigorous and robust analytical frameworks, presented intuitively in clear words as well as mathematically, and harnessed to wide-ranging up-to-date bibliographies which quickly open the door into recent literature . . . this will be a book to keep on a convenient shelf for reference purposes . . . it is hard to imagine a graduate student reading this book and failing to spot opportunities to colonize new theoretical territory beyond the present frontier, or to explore empirically the areas outlined in these chapters.'

• Contents: Introduction 1. Green Accounting and Green Taxes in the Global Economy 2. The Environment and Economic Well-being 3. Spatial Economic Aspects of the Environment and Environmental Policy 4. Empowering the Community: Information Strategies for Pollution Control 5. To Whisper in the Ears of Princes: Laboratory Economic Experiments and Environmental Policy 6. The Firm, its Procedures and Win–Win Environmental Regulations 7. International Trade and the Environment: How to Handle Carbon Leakage 8. Poverty, Environment and Development 9. Industrial Ecology: Wealth, Depreciation and Waste 10. Ecosystems as Lotteries 11. Corporate Governance in the Presence of Major Technological Risks 12. Strategies for Dealing with Large-Scale Natural and Environmental Risks 13. Resilience and Sustainability 14. Environmental Technological Innovation and Diffusion 15. On the Future of Environmental Economics Index