This book brings together a collection of innovative papers on strategies for analyzing the spatial and economic impacts of disasters. Natural and human-induced disasters pose several challenges for conventional modeling. For example, disasters entail complex linkages between the natural, built,...

The Need for Environmental and Natural Resource Policy -- Classical Causes of Environmental Degradation -- Public Economics and Information -- Adapting Models to Ecosystems: Ecology, Time, and Space -- The Evolution of Rights -- Review of Policy Instruments -- Direct Regulation of the...

pt. 1. Static and dynamic estimation of natural resource demand -- pt. 2. Valuation methods -- pt. 3. Estimation under uncertatinty -- pt. 4. Recent advances in econometrics methods applied to natural resource management.