CONTENTS List of figures vii List of tables ix List of contributors xi Foreword xvii Henk van der Plas 1 Environmental and resource economics: an introduction 1 Henk Folmer, H. Landis Gabel and Hans Opschoor PART I THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES IN AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE Edited by Henk Folmer 2 Markets and externalities 17 Karl-GustafLofgren 3 Public policies and externalities 47 Stef Proost 4 Dynamics and uncertainty 67 Marji Lines 5 The economics of natural resource utilization 106 Jari Kuuluvainen and Olli Tahvonen 6 Welfare indices and the environmental resource base 136 Karl-Goran Maler PART II THE ECONOMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES Edited by Hans Opschoor 7 Goals, principles and constraints in environmental policies 155 Tomasz Zylicz 8 Valuing the environment 177 Mordechai Shechter 9 Environmental policy and policy instruments 201 Jean-Philippe Barde 10 International coordination of environmental policies 228 Harmen Verbruggen and Huib M.A. Jansen 11 Modelling the economic consequences of environmental policies 253 Samuel Fankhauser and Daniel McCoy 12 Environmental policy in the European Union 276 Pavlos Karadeloglou, Toney Ikwue and Jim Skea PART IIITHE FIRM AND THE ENVIRONMENT Edited by H. Landis Gabel 13 A firm's involvement in the policy-making process 299 Francois Leveque and Alain Nadai 14 Environmental management as a competitive strategy: thecaseofCFCs 328 H. Landis Gabel 15 Corporate responses to environmental concerns 347 H. Landis Gabel and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne 16 Environmental information systems and eco-auditing 362 Jtirgen Freimann 17 Environmental technology 389 Jim Skea 18 Environmental issues and operations strategy 413 Charles Corbett and Luk Van Wassenhove 19 Waste management 440 R. Kerry Turner Index 467