ABSTRACT
Many articles in the Reader were originally published in RFF's quarterly magazine, Resources. Wally Oates has supplemented that with material drawn from other RFF works, including issue briefs and special reports. The readings provide concise, insightful background and perspectives on a broad range of environmental issues including benefit-cost analysis, environmental regulation, hazardous and toxic waste, environmental equity, and the environmental challenges in developing nations and transitional economies. Natural-resource topics include resource management, biodiversity, and sustainable agriculture. The articles address many of today's most difficult public policy questions, such as environmental policy and economic growth, and 'When is a Life Too Costly to Save?' New to the second edition is an expanded set of readings on global climate change and sustainability, plus cutting-edge policy applications on topics like the environment and public health and the growing problem of antibiotic and pesticide resistance. For general readers, the RFF Reader has been an accessible, nontechnical, authoritative introduction to key issues in environmental and natural resources policy. It has been especially effective in demonstrating the contribution that economics and other social science research can make toward improving public debate and decisionmaking. Organized to follow the contents of popular textbooks in environmental economics and politics, it has also found wide use in beginning environmental policy courses.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part 1. Science and Environmental Policy
part |2 pages
Part 2. Valuation of the Environment and Benefit-Cost Analysis
part |2 pages
Part 3. Environmental Regulation
part |2 pages
Part 4. Environmental Accounting and Statistics
part |2 pages
Part 5. Environmental Federalism
part |2 pages
Part 6. Resource Management and Conservation
part |2 pages
Part 7. Energy Policy for the Twenty-First Century
part |2 pages
Part 8. Global Climate Change
part |2 pages
Part 9. Thinking About Sustainable Development
part |2 pages
Part 10. Environmental Policy in Developing and Transitional Countries
part |2 pages
Part 11. New Horizons in Environmental Management
part |2 pages
Part 12. An Historical Perspective