Integrating Economic and Ecological Indicators: Practical Methods for Environmental Policy Analysis - Hardcover

J. Walter Milon; Jason Shogren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0275949834 ISBN 13: 9780275949839

Publisher: Praeger (UK), 1995

Synopsis

Recent international appeals for sustainable development policies have renewed efforts to explore the common ground between economics and ecology. This volume presents a collection of papers from leading researchers around the world, who evaluate the analytical foundations and empirical systems that are being developed to integrate economic and environmental indicators. These specialists identify key data requirements and modeling systems. Economists, ecologists, and policy makers will find this work introducing integrated modeling systems thought-provoking and useful.

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About the Author

J. WALTER MILON is Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Economics in the Food and Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida, Gainesville. His primary research interests are environmental resource valuation, fisheries and marine systems, and environmental policy. He served as chair of the Resource Policy Consortium in 1993-94 and is currently an associate editor of Marine Resource Economics.

JASON F. SHOGREN is an Associate Professor of Economics at Iowa State whose major field of interest is environmental and resource economics. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and serves on the Editorial Board of Environmental and Resource Economics. He received the 1992 Iowa State Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Research and was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of the new School of Environmental and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger (UK)
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0275949834
• ISBN 13: 9780275949839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232