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Risk and uncertainty in environmental and natural resource economics / edited by Justus Wesseler, Hans-Peter Weikard, Robert D. Weaver

Conference Author
International Conference on Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and Resource Economics (2002 : Wageningen, Netherlands)
Published
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, [2003]
Copyright Date
©2003
Physical Description
xv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Wesseler, Justus, 1963-, Weikard, Hans-Peter, and Weaver, Robert D.

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Contents
1. Introduction: approaches to risk and uncertainty in environmental and resource economics / Justus Wesseler, Hans-Peter Weikard and Robert D. Weaver -- Part I: Importance of environmental risk and uncertainty -- 2. Irreversibilities and catastrophic risks in climate change / Anthony C. Fisher -- 3. On the quasi-option value of biodiversity and conservation / Hans-Peter Weikard -- 4. Optimal environmental development under differing stochastic regimes / Shirra Freeman and Naomi Zeitouni -- Part II: Implications for economic development and environmental policies -- 5. Public-private environmental conflicts / Sung Hoon Park and Jason F. Shogren -- 6. Fish wars revisited: A Stochastic Incomplete-Information Harvesting Game / Robert McKelvey, Kathleen Miller and Peter Golubstov -- 7. Climate change scenarios and the precautionary principle / Rossella Bargiacchi -- 8. Risk, pollution abatement and endogenous growth: the impact of perception / Susanne Soretz -- 9. Securitizing the environment: A property rights approach to managing climate change / Stephen C. Peck and Thomas J. Teisberg -- 10. Risk aversion in economic decision making: pragmatic guides for consistent choice by natural resource managers / Jock R. Anderson and J. Brian Hardaker -- 11. Uncertainty analysis in integrated assessment models for acidification / Silke Gabbert and Carolien Kroeze -- Part III: Impact on private sector response -- 12. Stochastic dominance portfolio analysis of forestry assets / Veli-Pekka Heikkinen and Timo Kuosmanen -- 13. Weather-based index insurance to hedge temperature exposure of greenhouse horticultural firms / Marcel A.P.M. von Asseldonk and Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink -- 14. Parents' valuation of latent health risks to their children / Mark Dickie and Shelby Gerking -- 15. The effect of heavy metal content on food pricing behaviour: experimental assessment / Anne Rozan, Anne Stenger and Marc Willinger.
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ISBN
1843766094
9781843766094
Note
"This volume presents a selection of the papers presented at the International Conference on Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and Resource Economics held in June 2002 in Wageningen, The Netherlands." -- p. xv.
Penn State faculty contributor.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
Earth & Mineral Sciences copy: Purchased with funds from the Kenneth & Marion Pollock Libraries Program Endowment; 20078.
Endowment Note
Kenneth and Marion Pollock Libraries Program Endowment
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