ABSTRACT
This volume was prepared to honor John V. Krutilla, who has helped shape resource and environmental economics in a way and to a degree matched by few economists within their respective fields. His ideas and research accom plishments have been powerful forces in the development of the theory and the practice of economic analysis applied to resource and environmental prob lems. John’s research career coincides closely with that of Resources for the Future (RFF), which was founded thirty-six years ago, in 1952. Indeed, of his thirty-six years as a resource economist, he has spent thirty-three as a member of the RFF research staff.
