Research Tools in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics

This collection of articles focuses on the tools used in theoretical and empirical research in natural resources and environmental economics. The entries, written by experts in environmental economics, address subjects such as dynamic and stochastic analysis, game theory, economic valuation methods, the Hedonic method, environmental valuation, experimental methods and environmental and natural resource policy, modeling the economics of ecosystem services at watershed scale, geographical information systems models and spatial data analysis, materials balance models, and industry ecology. Editors are Batabyal (economics, Rochester Institute of Technology) and Nijkamp (spatial economics, Free U., the Netherlands). Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)