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 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...

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 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...

Introduction The objective of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the economics of resource management and to discuss policy implications. The paper is structured as follows. After a definition of the concepts of "resources" and "sustainability" in Section 2, economic theory is reviewed...