Böcker i Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics-serien

Deals with the increasingly complex issues of waste generation, waste management and waste disposal that in less developed industrialized countries present diverse but critical concerns. This book is suitable for those students of environmental economics and environmental sciences, as well as policy makers, and waste utility managers.

The purpose of this book is to assess the technical, economic and ecologic ability of US forests to meet future US energy needs, especially for transportation fuels and electric power, along with detailed case studies from several US regions.

Examines the watershed collaboration from an economic perspective as well as the possibility of alternative means of water protection such as regulation.

Oil, gas, and mineral deposits are a substantial part of the wealth of many countries, not least in developing and emerging market economies. Harnessing some part of that wealth for fiscal purposes is critical for economic development. This book shows how the harnessing in few areas of economic life are the returns to good policy.

Provides a systematic and in-depth discussion of the theory and methods of joint estimation, as well as showcasing various developments in theory and methods of data combination and joint estimation via a set of original studies that are contributed by leading researchers in the field.

Covers a wide range of topics within mathematical modelling and the optimization of economic, demographic, technological and environmental phenomena. This book uses mathematical models and optimization methods to describe age-structured populations in economy, demography, technological change, and the environment.