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| Preface | |
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| An Economic Perspective on Environmental Policy and Resource Management: An Introduction | |
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| Science and Environmental Policy | |
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| What the Science Says: How We Use It and Abuse It to Make Health and Environmental Policy | |
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| Using Science Soundly: The Yucca Mountain Standard | |
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| Valuation of the Environment and Benefit-Cost Analysis | |
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| Economics Clarifies Choices about Managing Risk | |
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| Health-Based Environmental Standards: Balancing Costs with Benefits | |
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| Discounting the Future: Economics and Ethics | |
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| Time and Money: Discounting's Problematic Allure | |
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| How Much Will People Pay for Longevity? | |
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| The Faustian Bargain: Risk, Ethics and Nuclear Energy | |
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| Environmental Regulation | |
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| Market-Based Approaches to Environmental Policy: A 'Refresher' Course | |
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| Trading Cases: Five Examples of the Use of Markets in Environmental and Resource Management | |
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| Economics Incentives Versus Command and Control | |
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| Unleashing the Clean Water Act: The Promise and Challenge of the TMDL Approach to Water Quality | |
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| Penny-Wise and Pound-Fuelish? New Car Mileage Standards in the United States | |
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| Is Gasoline Undertaxed in the United States? | |
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| Pay as You Slow: Road Pricing to Reduce Traffic Congestion | |
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| Cleaner Air, Cleaner Water: One Can Lead to the Other in the Chesapeake Bay | |
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| Environmental Accounting and Statistics | |
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| Accounting for the Environment | |
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| Greening the GDP: Is It Desirable? Is It Feasible? | |
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| Environmental Federalism | |
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| Environmental Federalism | |
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| The Arsenic Rule: A Case for Decentralized Standard Setting? | |
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| The Interstate Transport of Air Pollution: A Regulatory Dilemma | |
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| State Innovation for Environmental Improvements: Experimental Federalism | |
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| Resource Management and Conservation | |
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| Catching Market Efficiencies: Quota-Based Fisheries Management | |
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| Marketing Water: The Obstacles and the Impetus | |
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| Ecosystem Management: An Uncharted Path for Public Forests | |
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| Carving Out Some Space: A Guide to Land Preservation Strategies | |
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| A Market Approach to Land Preservation | |
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| Preserving Biodiversity as a Resource | |
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| Cost-Effective Conservation: A Review of What Works to Preserve Biodiversity | |
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| Energy Policy for the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Setting Energy Policy in the Modern Era: Tough Challenges Lie Ahead | |
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| Petroleum: Energy Independence is Unrealistic | |
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| Coal: Dirty Cheap Energy | |
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| Nuclear Power: Clean, Costly, and Controversial | |
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| Renewable Sources of Electricity: Safe Bet or Tilting at Windmills? | |
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| The Effectiveness and Cost of Energy Efficiency Programs | |
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| Global Climate Change | |
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| Climate Change and Climate Policy | |
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| How Much Climate Change is Too Much? An Economics Perspective | |
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| Choosing Price or Quantity Controls for Greenhouse Gases | |
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| Rethinking Fossil Fuels: The Necessary Step Toward Practical Climate Policy | |
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| Forest "Sinks" as a Tool for Climate-Change Policymaking | |
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| Thinking About Sustainable Development | |
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| The Difficulty in Defining Sustainability | |
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| An Almost Practical Step Toward Sustainability | |
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| Environmental Policy in Developing and Transitional Countries | |
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| Are Market-Based Instruments the Right First Choice for Countries in Transition? | |
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| Demonstrating Emissions Trading in Taiyuan, China | |
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| Saving the Trees by Helping the Poor: A Look at Small Producers along Brazil's Transamazon Highway | |
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| Small is Not Necessarily Beautiful: Coping with Dirty Microenterprises in Developing Countries | |
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| New Investment Abroad: Can It Reduce Chinese Greenhouse Gas Emissions? | |
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| New Horizons in Environmental Management | |
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| Fighting Antibiotic Resistance: Can Economic Incentives Play a Role? | |
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| Fending Off Invasive Species: Can We Draw the Line Without Turning to Trade Tariffs? | |
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| An Historical Perspective | |
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| Forty Years in an Emerging Field: Economics and Environmental Policy in Retrospect | |
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| Index | |