This book reports the more policy-oriented results of the Biodiversity programme of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Beijer Institute. The programme brought economists and ecologists together to consider where the problem in biodiversity loss reallylies, what costs it has for society, and how it might best be addressed....

Economists all too often assume that ecosystem and population dynamics are subject to convex (even linear) processes. However, research by ecosystem and population ecologists has shown that the processes in question are very often non-convex. This has important implications for environmental and resource economics....

Book DescriptionHardbound. The Handbook of Environmental Economics focuses on the economics of environmental externalities and environmental public goods. Volume I examines environmental degradation and policy responses from a microeconomic, institutional standpoint....

Property rights are a tool humans use in regulating their use of natural resources. Understanding how rights to resources are assigned and how they are controlled is critical to designing and implementing effective strategies for environmental management and conservation....

Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 1981 - 1990 with a description of the works which won them their prizes: (1981) J TOBIN - for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production andprices; (1982) G J STIGLER - for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of ma...