Environmental Economics

This book aids those concerned about environmental issues to firmly grasp relevant analytical methods and to comprehend the thought process behind environmental economics. It does so by drawing from specific environmental issues and at the same time providing commentary that facilitates understanding. This text contains in-depth explanations necessary for a thorough understanding of the fundamental aspects and importance of environmental economics.

Environmental Economics seeks to elucidate the mechanisms that give rise to environmental problems by approaching environmental issues from an economic perspective. At the same time, it is a study aiming to indicate specific countermeasures that could resolve present environmental issues. This text has been put together in way that allows readers without specialized economics knowledge to easily understand the situation, issues and challenges of environmental economics.

Shunsuke Managi is the Distinguished Professor of Technology and Policy in the School of Engineering at Kyushu University, Japan, while also holding positions as an Adjunct Professor at QUT Business School, and the University of Tokyo. He is an editor of Environmental Economic and Policy Studies, a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and is the author ofTechnology, Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Improving the Environment for a Greener Future and editor ofThe Economics of Green Growth.

Koichi Kuriyama is the Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the Kyoto University, Japan. His research has focused on evaluation of environment including forest and ecosystem services. He is the author ofA latent segmentation approach to a Kuhn-Tucker model: An application to recreation demand (with W.M. Hanemann and J.R. Hilger, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 60(3), 2010).