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• Clear, concise introduction to the economic theory students need to understand the environmental policy issues.
• Increased international focus, with considerable attention paid to environmental problems and policies in Eastern and Western Europe, Japan, China and the developing nations, as well as in the United States.
• Interdisciplinary discussions that incorporate insights from other disciplines such as, literature, history, and the natural, physical and political science.

• Chapter 2: Valuing the Environment: Concepts—This chapter has added a section on “Finding the efficient outcome” which provides students with a more quantitative/numerical angle on valuation.
• Chapter 3: Valuing the Environment: Methods—Has more coverage on the use of GIS in both analysis and policy.
• Chapter 8: Energy—Now offers sections on the effects of fossil fuel usage, and energy efficiency policy and its role in conservationism. This chapter also features discussions on hot new topics such as hydroelectric power, geothermal energy, biomass fuels, tidal power, and solar energy.
• NEW! Chapter 10: Land—By including this new chapter on land use, this text provides insight on the economics of allocation, sources of inefficient land use and conversion, and innovative market-based remedies.
• Chapter 11: Agriculture—Now features a new Example Box on the expansion of Ethanol and a new Debate box on organic food in the mainstream.
• Chapter 16: Climate Change—This chapter now features an extensive new section on reducing ozone depleting gases and the 80’s environmental movements.
• Chapter 17: Transportation—Now contains expanded and revised discussions on congestion pricing to include topics such as cordon pricing, a recent study on congestion, and a revised debate box on taxes vs. enforceable emission standards.
• Chapter 18: Water Pollution—Includes information on water pollution in various countries, GIS and water quality, Columbia’s national water pollution control incentive program and a new debate on toxins in fish and the effects of FDA warnings.
• Chapter 19: Managing Waste—The chapters on toxics and waste have been streamlined into one chapter.
• Chapter 20: Development, Poverty, and the Environment—Focuses on evidence presented in 2002 Morgenstern study that found increased stringency in environmental protections causes no significant job loss.

New To This Edition

 New Co-author! Lynne Lewis of Bates College. Lynne Lewis formally joins the author team after working on previous editions as a contributor and supplements author. Lewis is Chair of the Economics Department at Bates College, and her current research focuses on valuing the potential benefits from dam removals and river restoration.

Several new examples showcase the recent research in the field, such as feed-in tariffs (the reason Germany has become a world leader in renewable energy), and there is considerable expansion on the material on energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.
   
New numerical examples, and new graphs and tables further illuminate current environmental policy.

Updated, Streamlined, Expanded and Revised.
The sixth edition has overhauled many of its previous discussions, features and chapters in order to remain current. Major changes include:

• Chapter 2: Valuing the Environment: Concepts—This chapter has added a section on “Finding the efficient outcome” which provides students with a more quantitative/numerical angle on valuation.
• Chapter 3: Valuing the Environment: Methods—Has more coverage on the use of GIS in both analysis and policy.
• Chapter 8: Energy—Now offers sections on the effects of fossil fuel usage, and energy efficiency policy and its role in conservationism. This chapter also features discussions on hot new topics such as hydroelectric power, geothermal energy, biomass fuels, tidal power, and solar energy.
• NEW! Chapter 10: Land—By including this new chapter on land use, this text provides insight on the economics of allocation, sources of inefficient land use and conversion, and innovative market-based remedies.
• Chapter 11: Agriculture—Now features a new Example Box on the expansion of Ethanol and a new Debate box on organic food in the mainstream.
• Chapter 16: Climate Change—This chapter now features an extensive new section on reducing ozone depleting gases and the 80’s environmental movements.
• Chapter 17: Transportation—Now contains expanded and revised discussions on congestion pricing to include topics such as cordon pricing, a recent study on congestion, and a revised debate box on taxes vs. enforceable emission standards.
• Chapter 18: Water Pollution—Includes information on water pollution in various countries, GIS and water quality, Columbia’s national water pollution control incentive program and a new debate on toxins in fish and the effects of FDA warnings.
• Chapter 19: Managing Waste—The chapters on toxics and waste have been streamlined into one chapter.
• Chapter 20: Development, Poverty, and the Environment—Focuses on evidence presented in 2002 Morgenstern study that found increased stringency in environmental protections causes no significant job loss.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Visions of the Future
Chapter 2. Valuing the Environment: Concepts
Chapter 3. Valuing the Environment: Methods
Chapter 4. Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems
Chapter 5. Sustainable Development: Defining the Concept
Chapter 6. The Population Problem
Chapter 7. Natural Resource Economics: An Overview
Chapter 8. Energy
Chapter 9. Water
Chapter 10. Land
Chapter 11. Agriculture
Chapter 12. Biodiversity I – Forest Habitat
Chapter 13. Common-Pool Resources: Fisheries and Other Commercially Valuable Species
Chapter 14. Environmental Economics: An Overview
Chapter 15. Stationary-Source Local and Regional Air Pollution
Chapter 16. Climate Change
Chapter 17. Transportation
Chapter 18. Water Pollution
Chapter 19. Managing Waste
Chapter 20. Development, Poverty, and the Environment
Chapter 21. The Quest for Unsuitable Development
Chapter 22. Visions of the Future Revisited

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• Environmental Economics and Policy, 5/E
  Tietenberg
  ©2007  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 560 pp  |  Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0321348907  |  ISBN-13: 9780321348906
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  Tom Tietenberg has written the ideal book for a policy-oriented course in environmental economics, accessible to both non-majors and majors. He begins with a brief introduction to the core theory, and then offers a series of self-contained policy chapters that allow professors great flexibility when planning their course.

   

  With an overhaul of the applications, a new Debate feature that highlights today’s policy issues, and the latest research integrated throughout, The Fifth Edition represents the most thorough revision in over a decade.

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Tom Tietenberg is the author or editor of eleven books (including Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Eighth Edition, and Environmental Economics and Policy, Fifth Edition), as well as over one hundred articles and essays on environmental and natural resource economics. After receiving his PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1971, Tietenberg was elected President of the Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists (AERE) in 1987. He has consulted on environmental policy with the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the Agency for International Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as several state and foreign governments. In 1992, Tietenberg spoke at the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has lectured on sustainable development at many other conferences around the world. In 2006 he was designated one of six inaugural AERE Fellows. He is currently the Mitchell Family Economics Professor at Colby College, where his research focuses on the design and evaluation of economic incentive mechanisms for environmental protection and tradable permit systems for pollution control and fisheries management.

Lynne Lewis is chair of the economics department at Bates College where she teaches microeconomics, environmental economics, natural resource economics, and valuation. Lewis received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado in 1994 after finishing a two-year dissertation fellowship at the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Her dissertation received the Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR) Dissertation Award in 1995. Currently, she is working on a research grant focused on valuing the potential benefits from dam removals and river restoration. She has also worked extensively on the economics of transboundary water resources, tradable permits for pollution control and the valuation of environmental amenities and disamenities within watersheds and coastal zones. She currently serves on the Board of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, the Penobscot River Science Steering Committee, and the Advisory Board of Mitchell Center for Environment and Watershed Research. She received the Friend of UCOWR award in 2005.

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