In standard economic theory human beings are portrayed as selfish money-maximizing actors. This book investigates the conditions under which people deviate from this prediction and when they are prepared to contribute to the common good in a more altruistic fashion. Based on field experiments...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Roland Bénabou and Jean Tirole (2003), 'Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation', Review of Economic Studies, 70 (3), July, 489-520 -- Kjell Arne Brekke, Snorre Kverndokk and Karine Nyborg (2003), 'An Economic Model of Moral Motivation', Journal of Public...

1. Introduction -- 2. Evolutionary economics -- 3. Environmental policy and transition management from an evolutionary perspective -- 4. Evolutionary policy for energy innovations -- 5. Case studies -- 6. Summary and conclusions.

Bottom-up approaches towards a global climate agreement : an overview -- Carlo Carraro, Christian Egenhofer and Noriko Fujiwara -- Regional and subglobal climate blocs : a cost-benefit analysis of bottom-up climate regimes / Barbara Buchner and Carlo Carraro -- Do regional integration approaches...

1. The role of biology and ecological engineering in watershed and river restoration -- 2. Codification, case studies, and methods for economic analysis of river systems -- 3. Estimating willingness to pay for additional protection of Ohio surface waters : contingent valuation of water quality...

Evaluating sustainable development is becoming increasingly important in policy making, evaluation practice and the scientific world in general. However, at present, there is neither a generally accepted set of measures and evaluation methods, nor specific standards to be met. Sustainable...

1. A reconsideration of environmental federalism / Wallace E. Oates -- 2. Global environmental governance, political lobbying and transboundary pollution / Surjinder Johal and Alistair Ulph -- 3. Endogenous transfrontier pollution / Michael Rauscher -- 4. Allocating greenhouse gas emissions...