Overview
The Economics of Pollution Control in the Asia Pacific adapts environmental economics to the special conditions of the Asia Pacific region, emphasizing the importance of local conditions and culture. Global warming, air pollution and water pollution are all addressed by a distinguished group of authors who rigorously apply economics to the analysis of pollution control in societies undergoing rapid industrialization. As this pioneering volume demonstrates, citizens of rapidly developing Taiwan and Korea are willing to pay substantial amounts for the protection and improvement of air and water quality, and face potentially huge losses from global climate change. A number of the papers also point to some cost effective alternatives for helping to reduce global greenhouse gas emission. As this major book reveals, the make-up of Asian politico-economic systems has a direct impact on environmental policies, from benefit estimation to instrument choice. As the authors argue, policymakers and researchers in the Asia Pacific cannot draw on European and American methods, arguments and conclusions without considerable modification for regional conditions.
Full Product Details
Author: Robert Mendelsohn ,
Daigee Shaw
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Weight: 0.488kg
ISBN: 9781858983073
ISBN 10: 185898307
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 05 December 1996
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
`The coverage is balanced in terms of applied work, theoretical work and political economy. In the chapters devoted to theory, there are useful illustrations of modelling economic actors in the environmental scene. . . . A number of interesting and valuable insights can be obtained from reading the book. . . . In sum, this is a good collection of papers covering both theory and empirical work on environment economics with a strong focus on countries in East Asia. The book can be used by senior undergraduates or graduates taking an environmental economics course. It is highly recommended.' -- Euston Quah, The Manchester School `This is an excellent book which, because of its mathematical content, will be of most value to environmental economists.' -- Terence P. Curran, Journal of Asian Business `. . . a useful book which effectively discusses the application of traditionally western valuation techniques in nonwestern societies . . . this book will provide empirically minded readers of Kyklos a lot to be enthused about.' -- Amitrajeet Batabyal, Kyklos
'The coverage is balanced in terms of applied work, theoretical work and political economy. In the chapters devoted to theory, there are useful illustrations of modelling economic actors in the environmental scene... A number of interesting and valuable insights can be obtained from reading the book... In sum, this is a good collection of papers covering both theory and empirical work on environment economics with a strong focus on countries in East Asia. The book can be used by senior undergraduates or graduates taking an environmental economics course. It is highly recommended.' -- Euston Quah, The Manchester School 'This is an excellent book which, because of its mathematical content, will be of most value to environmental economists.' -- Terence P. Curran, Journal of Asian Business '... a useful book which effectively discusses the application of traditionally western valuation techniques in nonwestern societies ... this book will provide empirically minded readers of Kyklos a lot to be enthused about.' -- Amitrajeet Batabyal, Kyklos
'The coverage is balanced in terms of applied work, theoretical work and political economy. In the chapters devoted to theory, there are useful illustrations of modelling economic actors in the environmental scene. . . . A number of interesting and valuable insights can be obtained from reading the book. . . . In sum, this is a good collection of papers covering both theory and empirical work on environment economics with a strong focus on countries in East Asia. The book can be used by senior undergraduates or graduates taking an environmental economics course. It is highly recommended.' -- Euston Quah, The Manchester School 'This is an excellent book which, because of its mathematical content, will be of most value to environmental economists.' -- Terence P. Curran, Journal of Asian Business '. . . a useful book which effectively discusses the application of traditionally western valuation techniques in nonwestern societies . . . this book will provide empirically minded readers of Kyklos a lot to be enthused about.' -- Amitrajeet Batabyal, Kyklos
'The coverage is balanced in terms of applied work, theoretical work and political economy. In the chapters devoted to theory, there are useful illustrations of modelling economic actors in the environmental scene. . . . A number of interesting and valuable insights can be obtained from reading the book. . . . In sum, this is a good collection of papers covering both theory and empirical work on environment economics with a strong focus on countries in East Asia. The book can be used by senior undergraduates or graduates taking an environmental economics course. It is highly recommended.'
Author Information
Edited by Robert Mendelsohn, Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor Emeritus of Forest Policy, Yale School of Environment, Yale University, New Haven, US and Daigee Shaw, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
