Handbook of Environmental Economics, Volume 4

1. Modeling Coupled Climate, Ecosystems, and Economic Systems
William A. Brock and Anastasios Xepapadeas
2. Ecology and Economics in the Science of Anthropogenic Biosphere Change
Charles Perrings and Ann Kinzig
3. The Nature of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Income
Eli P. Fenichel, Joshua K. Abbott, and Seong Do Yun
4. Through the Looking Glass: Environmental Health Economics in Low and Middle Countries
Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Emily L. Pakhtigian, and Erin L. Litzow
5. The Farmer’s Climate Change Adaptation Challenge in Least Developed Countries
Maximilian Auffhammer and Matthew E. Kahn
6. Selection and Design of Environmental Policy Instruments
Thomas Sterner and Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson
7. Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and Challenges
Olivier Deschenes and Kyle C. Meng
8. Environmental Macroeconomics: The Case of Climate Change
John Hassler and Per Krusell
9. Causal inference in Environmental Conservation: The Role of Institutions
Erin Sills and Kelly Jones
10. Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Environmental Economics: Conceptual Issues
Geoffrey Heal and Antony Millner

Handbook in Environmental Economics, Volume 4, the latest in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting timely chapters on Modeling Ecosystems and Economic Systems, Framing Sustainability Policy Questions: Who Leads – Ecology or Economics?, Valuing Natural Capital Within an Integrated Economic Ecological, Developing Economies, Urbanization, Climate Change and Health, Viewing Environmental Policy Instruments for Domestic and International Perspective, Quasi experimental Estimation of Environmental Policies, Environment Macro, The Rules for Formal and Informal Institutions in Managing Environmental Resources, and How Should Uncertainty Be Integrated into the Methods for Policy Evaluation?

• Answers key policy questions facing environmental agencies in developed and developing economies
• Integrates insights from economics and ecology as part of several key chapters
• Presents the latest on efforts to review and evaluate the new literatures on field and quasi experiments in environmental economics
• Provides the first substantive review of environmental macro economics

Faculty, graduate students and policy analysts in environmental agencies around the world