Wallace E. Oates.

Washington, DC: Resources for the Future; distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, 314 pp.

Fifty papers, in a revised and updated edition, provide concise economic analyses of environmental problems. Papers focus on science and environmental policy; valuation of the environment and benefit-cost analysis; environmental regulation; environmental accounting and statistics; environmental federalism; resource management and conservation; energy policy for the twenty-first century; global climate change; thinking about sustainable development; environmental policies in developing and transitional countries; new horizons in environmental management; and a historical perspective. Oates is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and University Fellow with Resources for the Future. Index.

Herman E. Daly and Joshua C. Farley.

Washington DC: Island Press, 2004, 454 pp

Gopal K. Kadekodi.

New Delhi; Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 372 pp.

Ten papers demonstrate the usefulness of environmental economics in practical applications through Indian case studies that introduce appropriate economic, statistical, and sociological tools and methods. Papers discuss pollution control in tanneries (U. Sankar); economic valuation of biodiversity and the case of Keoladeo National Park (Kanchan Chopra); the health benefits of improving the household environment in Andhra Pradesh (Gordon Hughes, Meghan Dunleavy, and Kseniya Lvovsky); the environmental impact assessment process in India and air quality management (P. Ram Babu); social forestry in Karnataka (K. N. Ninan and S. Jyothis); stakeholder analysis in joint forest management in India (T. P. Singh and Ravi Hegde); valuing the health impacts of air pollution (Jyoti Parikh); economic benefit-cost analysis of a proposed solid waste resource recovery plant (Paul P. Appasamy); fiscal and institutional approaches to pollution abatement (M. N. Murty); and approaches to natural resource accounting in the Indian context (Gopal K. Kadekodi). Kadekodi is at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. No index

Clem Tisdell.

Northampton, Mass.: Elgar; distributed by American International Distribution Corporation, Williston, Vt., 2003, 361 pp.

Twenty-four papers, published over the period 1991-2001, take an economic approach to the analysis of ecological and environmental problems and to the development of appropriate policies. Papers examine general issues in ecological and environmental economics; governance and policy instruments for environmental control; environmental issues in Australia, Asia, and transitional economies; and cases studies involving environmental health concerns. Tisdell is Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland. Name index.

Gunther G. Schulze and Heinrich W. Ursprung.

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 301 pp.

Ten essays integrate political-economic views with traditional normative analysis based on a social welfare perspective to analyze international environmental problems. Addresses theoretical issues of international trade, investment, and the environment (Gunther G. Schulze and Heinrich W. Ursprung); the empirical evidence on trade, investment, and the environment (Schulze and Ursprung); the political economy of international trade and the environment (Schulze and Ursprung); trade, agriculture, and the environment (David E. Ervin); international trade and sustainable forestry (Edward B. Barbier); international trade in hazardous waste (Michael Rauscher); environmental taxation in open economies (Sjak Smulders); sustainable growth in open economies (Lucas Bretschger and Hannes Egli); theoretical models and economic instruments of incentives for international environmental cooperation (Carsten Schmidt); and the political economy of international environmental treaties and institutions (Roger Congleton). Schulze is at the University of Freiberg. Ursprung is at the University of Konstanz. Index.

Barry C. Field and Martha K. Field.

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1994, 504 pp.