New directions in productivity measurement and efficiency analysis : counting the environment and natural resources

Contents: 1. Introduction / Tiho Ancev, M. A. Samad Azad and Francesc Hernández Sancho -- 2. Environmentally adjusted productivity and efficiency: a review of concepts, methods and empirical work / Tiho Ancev, M. A. Samad Azad and Mahmuda Akter -- 3. Modeling pollution abatement technologies as a network / Rolf G. Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka, Jr. -- 4. Efficiency analysis in uncertain operating environments: the problem with outliers / Kevin J. Fox and Lisa Y.T. Lee -- 5. Assessing stream health with respect to ecological connectivity / H.K. Edmonds, J.E. Lovell and C.A.K. Lovell -- 6. Accounting for nutrient pollution in measuring agricultural total factor productivity: a study of OECD economies / Viet-Ngu Hoang and Clevo Wilson -- 7. Incorporating the environment in agricultural productivity: applying advances in international environmental accounting / Carl Obst and Mark Eigenraam -- 8. Climate adjusted productivity in australian cropping farms / Neal Hughes and Kenton Lawson -- 9. Environmentally adjusted efficiency of municipal water suppliers / Fransec Hernández-Sancho and Águeda Bellver-Domingo -- 10. Valuing environmental and health impacts from action in wastewater management / Francesc Hernández-Sancho, Birguy Lamizana-Diallo and William Ingram -- 11. Estimating the cost of carbon abatement for China / Atakelty Hailu and Chunbo Ma -- 12. Environmentally adjusted efficiency of shrimp farming in Bangladesh / Hasneen Jahan and Tiho Ancev -- Index.