Agricultural policy is designed to achieve certain goals. One goal that is of increasing importance in public discussion is 'public money for public goods' i.e. the compensation for the provision of public goods and the internalization of externalities. The European Union's Common Agricultural...

This chapter explores the use of prediction markets to generate, collect, and process information relating to a variety of environmental problems. Prediction markets, artificially constructed markets for contracts for contingent payoffs, have been used to generate projections of future...

This chapter has described tools to improve forecasting of trends and of the effects of interventions. Among these methods, role playing and rule-based forecasting have seldom been used lot environmental forecasting. Role playing is appropriate when forecasting the outcome of a situation...