The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia. It reveals how environmentalist...

It is nowadays unquestionable that the defense of the environmental quality and to it safeguards of the natural resources are fundamental slopes of the social development. The exploration of the common natural resources (water, air, soil, natural landscapes and humanized) it has been provoking...

The paper explores the question whether social benefit is always maximized when consumers are charged marginal cost prices for their environmental harmful activities. The issue is investigated in a simple model using the concepts of price elasticity of demand and consumer surplus. The subject is...

We make an attempt to shed light on how Swedish environmental policy has evolved over the years in response to changing environmental problems as well as changing priorities. Our analysis covers the past, the present and, in a sense, the future. A central point we try to make is that the chosen...

This is the Preface to Environmental Economics: An Integrated Approach, and it provides a description of the approach taken throughout the book. The approach is to first understand how environmental policy would be conducted in a world of "perfect information," then move on to sources of...

„In der Wissenschaft ist es sehr selten, dass es zu einer bestimmten Frage einenso eindeutigen Konsens gibt." (Gore 2006: 260).Die Wissenschaftlerin Heike Walk (Walk 2008) hat die Partizipations- undGovernancedebatte auf die Klimapolitik bezogen. Die Autorin belegt die...

This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...