Econometrics informing natural resources management; selected empirical analyses

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2005

HC85

2004-055151

1-84376-922-0

Econometrics informing natural resources management; selected empirical analyses.

Title main entry. Ed. by Phoebe Koundouri-Pittis. (New horizons in environmental economics)

Edward Elgar Pub. Co., [c]2004

391 p.

$135.00

Koundouri-Pittis (economics, University of Reading, UK) gathers work on difficulties in the use of econometrics to inform natural resource management policies, and presents case studies from around the world illustrating these challenges. The book offers an overview of the state of the art in econometrics as applied to environmental and natural resources management, and describes a range of econometric techniques that can be used to inform natural resource management. The audience for the book includes academics and researchers in natural resource economics and econometrics.