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  • The Economics of Natural Environments

    Studies in the Valuation of Commodity and Amenity Resources, revised edition

    In this pioneering study, Krutilla and Fisher put the amenity resources of natural environments into an analytical framework comparable to that for the extractive resources. The models and theoretical background of their techniques are illustrated by case studies which include the controversial Hells Canyon dam, the Mineral King ski resort, and the Trans-Alaska pipeline.The authors point out that ... Read more

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  • Natural Environments

    Studies in Theoretical & Applied Analysis

    Series series RFF Environmental and Resource Economics Set
    This study represents the first scholarly attempt to consider the difficult allocation problems associated with management of natural resources and proposed changes in the natural environment.Originally published in 1973 ... Read more

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  • Multiple Purpose River Development

    Studies in Applied Economic Analysis

    Series series RFF Water Policy Set
    This book sketches out a framework for analyzing the economic efficiency of particular river basin programs. It provides a useful cross-disciplinary perspective for economists and water resource developers-especially designed to provide working material for students in applied economics for conservation curricula. Originally published in 1958. ... Read more

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  • Multiple-Use Management

    The Economics of Public Forestlands

    In this book, Bowes and Krutilla bring together what is known and relevant about valuing the nonmarket services of the public forests and propose a new theoretical framework that allows multiple uses, the biological dynamics of the forest, and the institutional and economic realities of public forest management to be taken into account in forest planning and budgeting. The authors begin by tracing ... Read more

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  • The Columbia River Treaty

    The Economics of an International River Basin Development

    Series series RFF Water Policy Set
    This book applies the principles of cost-benefit analysis, an international program in which an equitable division of costs and gains was an aim, along with economies of coordinated development. Originally published in 1967. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Structure and Properties of a Wilderness Travel Simulator

    An Application to the Spanish Peaks Area

    Series series RFF Forests, Lands, and Recreation Set
    First Published in 2011. This is Volume 10 of in a set of ten titles on Resources for the Future Library Collection Forests, Lands and Recreation. The research on which this monograph is based was stimulated by some ideas presented in George Stankey's A Strategy for the Definition and Management of Wilderness Quality and the conceptual model presented in a paper by Anthony Fisher and John Krutilla ... Read more

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    An Economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, Fourth Edition

    'I joined this amazing journey about 30 years ago. I benefited from all the theories, principles, and approaches offered in this book to explore the natural resource and environmental issues on the other side of the world. It makes me an enthusiastic and pragmatic teacher and researcher. In addition to rearranging and rewriting certain chapters, the fourth edition comprises new chapters on climate ... Read more

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  • Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services

    An Input-Output Approach

    Environmental life cycle assessment is often thought of as cradle to grave and therefore as the most complete accounting of the environmental costs and benefits of a product or service. However, as anyone who has done an environmental life cycle assessment knows, existing tools have many problems: data is difficult to assemble and life cycle studies take months of effort. A truly comprehensive ... Read more

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  • Environmental Quality Analysis

    Theory & Method in the Social Sciences

    Series series RFF Environmental and Resource Economics Set
    This book brings together state-of-the-art papers describing comprehensive approaches to residuals management and emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary solutions to complex environmental problems.Originally published in 1972 ... Read more

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  • Determining the Economic Value of Water

    Concepts and Methods

    Water provides benefits as a commodity for agriculture, industry, and households, and as a public good such as fisheries habitat, water quality and recreational use. To aid in cost-benefit analysis under conditions where market determined price signals are usually unavailable, economists have developed a range of alternative valuation methods for measuring economic benefits.This volume provides ... Read more

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  • Water Resource Economics, second edition

    The Analysis of Scarcity, Policies, and Projects

    Updated edition of a comprehensive introduction to the economics of water management, with self-contained treatment of all necessary economic concepts.Economics brings powerful insights to water management, but most water professionals receive limited training in it. The second edition of this text offers a comprehensive development of water resource economics that is accessible to engineers and ... Read more

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