The Economics of Natural Environments / Studies in the Valuation of Commodity and Amenity Resources
- The John Hopkins University Press, 1975
- 300
Preface, Acknowledgements, Institutional and Theoretical Considerations, Managing Natural Environments, Externalities and Property Rights and Valuation of Resources on the Public Lands, Irreversibility and the Optimal Use of Natural Environments, Further Analysis of Irreversibility: Discounting and Intergenerational Transfers and Uncertainty, Applying the Analysis: Selected Case Studies, Hells Canyon: Asymmetric Implications of Technical Change for Value of Alternative Uses, Hells Canyon Continued: Evaluation of Environmental Costs, The White Cloud Peaks: Wilderness Recreation or Mine-Mill Operations?, Mineral King Valley: Demand Theory and Resource Valuation, Allocation of Prairie Wetlands, The Trans-Alaska Pipeline: Environmental Consequences and Alternatives, Summary and Conclusions and Policy Recommendations, Index.