As human societies grapple with the scarcity of environmental resources—clean water, biodiversity, and atmospheric quality—environmental markets will achieve an important role in the global economy. Along with markets for knowledge, they may become the most important institutions in the...

This volume provides a rigorous and analytical perspective on the pressing issue of making economic progress consistent with environmental conservation. It proposes formal definitions of sustainability, embeds them in dynamic models and models of uncertainty, and explores the concepts and their...

This paper reviews a range of issues relating to tradeable carbon dioxide quotas. It considers the economic principles on which they are based, compares them with alternative carbon abatement policies, and reviews many aspects of how tradeable quotas would be implemented in practice ...