Books in the RFF Environmental and Resource Economics Set series

Examines issues surrounding benefits assessment, including such tools as bidding games, surveys, property value studies, wage differentials, risk reduction evaluation, and mortality and morbidity cost estimation. This work discusses methods for quantitatively estimating benefits derived from the maintenance or improvement of air and water quality.

"Environmental Economics: A Theoretical Inquiry".

Examines some leading problems in environmental quality, analyzes the various situations and prospects, and suggests what might be done about them.

Considers the difficult allocation problems associated with management of natural resources and proposed changes in the natural environment.

Considers public expenditures in the context of modern growth theory. This book analyzes optimal growth with public capital.

Brings together the papers describing comprehensive approaches to residuals management and emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary solutions to complex environmental problems.

Assesses the importance of technological change and resource substitution in support of their conclusion that resource scarcity did not increase in the Unites States during the period 1870 to 1957.

Examines the views on resource availability, along with the original Barnett-Morse thesis of resource supply.