This is Chapter 10 of Environmental Economics: An Integrated Approach and it provides an overview of the environmental valuations commonly used in environmental economics prior to detailed treatments in later chapters

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...

The paper attempts an explanation of the alleged "lack of adequate economic models" to predict and eventually avoid - using certain policy recommendations - the recurrent financial and fiscal crises, and finally, economic crisis, recurrently registered in the world. From author opinion, in the...

There are a number of ethical issues in the area of international trade that affect managers. This article will address two ethical issues that have been almost totally neglected in the literature -- antidumping and sanctions. Antidumping laws are special interest legislation. Rather than...

Technology has radically changed the way in which human relationships develop and its non-stopping progress is set to affect us more and more in the future. Regarding the world of work, the evolution of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has encouraged a transformation and...

Spanish Abstract: El avance y la masificación en el uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TICs) ha modificado enormemente la forma en que las relaciones humanas se desarrollan, y continuará haciéndolo en el futuro. En lo que respecta al campo del derecho del trabajo,...

Global Recession to Global Recovery: It is well known fact that all good things, as also bad things, come to an end and business cycles pass through good and bad economic times. Economically 2010 was a year of transition from economic recession to recovery. Economies were improving in some...

In this study, we aim to replicate and extend the negative effect of red tape on procedural satisfaction by conducting an experiment via the online crowdsourcing service MTurk. Our findings indicate that a higher level of red tape is indeed associated with lower procedural satisfaction. We also...

Policy alienation can be defined as a cognitive state of psychological disconnection from the policy program to be implemented. This essay in the Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance has three goals. First, it aims to discuss the background and development...

Implementing e-government in the contemporary American state is challenging. E-government places high technical demands on agencies and citizens in an environment of budget austerity and political polarization. Governments developing e-government policies often mobilize frontline workers (also...