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FREEMAN, A. Myrick Hawaii was born in 1936 in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America.
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Environmental Economics: Concepts, Methods and Policies, second edition, draws on the salience of the laws of thermodynamics and principles of ecology and illustrates how concepts and methods in economics need to be revised for policy analysis. Conceptual premises advanced in the text are supported by empirical evidence and illustrations. This extensively revised new edition has been structured into five parts. The text begins with a list of environmental issues and challenges and concludes with a list of policies to deal with these challenges. Part I aims to give readers an appreciation of environmental challenges and the linkages between the environment and the economy. These linkages are examined by recourse to concepts in environmental science. The implications of these environment-economy linkages are then considered within the frameworks of microeconomics in Part II and those of macroeconomics in Part III. Part IV considers the valuation of environmental goods and services at the microeconomic level and the macroeconomic level. The policy implications that stem from the preceding chapters form Part V. Unlike most standard texts in environmental economics, this text contains a clearly developed section on Environmental-Macroeconomics. This section illustrates how standard approaches in macroeconomics and trade when revised to the reality of nature-capital would lead to significantly distinct policy outcomes.
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The past twenty-five years have seen a significant evolution in environmental policy, with new environmental legislation and substantive amendments to earlier laws, significant advances in environmental science, and changes in the treatment of science (and scientific uncertainty) by the courts. This book offers a detailed discussion of the important issues in environmental law, policy, and economics, tracing their development over the past few decades through an examination of environmental law cases and commentaries by leading scholars. The authors focus on pollution, addressing both pollution control and prevention, but also emphasize the evaluation, design, and use of the law to stimulate technical change and industrial transformation, arguing that there is a need to address broader issues of sustainable development. Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics, which grew out of courses taught by the authors at MIT, treats the traditional topics covered in most classes in environmental law and policy, including common law and administrative law concepts and the primary federal legislation. But it goes beyond these to address topics not often found in a single volume: the information-based obligations of industry, enforcement of environmental law, market-based and voluntary alternatives to traditional regulation, risk assessment, environmental economics, and technological innovation and diffusion. Countering arguments found in other texts that government should play a reduced role in environmental protection, this book argues that clear, stringent legal requirements -- coupled with flexible means for meeting them -- and meaningful stakeholder participation are necessary for bringing about environmental improvements and technologicial transformations. This book is regularly updated online at http://mitpress.mit.edu/ashford_environmental_law
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FREEMAN, A. Myrick Hawaii was born in 1936 in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America.
Bachelor of Arts Cornell University, 1957. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy University Washington, 1964, 1965.
Research Association, University Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1963-1964. Assistant Professor, Association Professor, Bowdoin College, 1965-1970, 1970-1975. Visiting Scholar, Resources for the Future, Washington District of Columbia, 1969-1970.
Visiting Association Professor, University Wisconsin-Madison, 1973.
Fellow, Resources for the Future, 1976-1978. Professor, University Washington, 1982.
Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, United States of America, since 1975.
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Most of my work in environmental and resource economics has been concerned with the distributional implications of environmental policy, policy analysis, the design of more efficient and effective policy instruments, and the theory of measuring welfare changes associated with environmental and resource policies.
I have long been interested in the issues surrounding the distribution among income groups of the benefits and costs of various environmental and
resource policy decisions. I worked on one aspect of this problem in my doctoral dissertation on public investments in irrigation projects. I also examined approaches to integrating distributional objectives into the economic analysis of resource development projects.
In later work I traced the impacts of urban air pollution to different income groups and examined the incidence of the costs of controlling automotive air pollution.
I have been concerned with the development of more rational and effective policies for controlling air and water pollution. This has led me to write about emission charges and other approaches to achieving cost-effective pollution control. I have also written about risk-benefit assessment and decision-making under uncertainty as applied to setting environmental standards with incomplete information.
Finally, as an advocate of greater use of benefit-cost analysis in environmental policy-making, I have had to confront the question of the adequacy of our theoretical and empirical tools for measuring the benefits that would stem from improvements in environmental quality.
I have found two questions to be of particular interest. The first is the question of the appropriate measure of the benefits of the future provision of an environmental service for an individual who is uncertain of his future demand for that service (the ‘option value’ question). The second is the question of the proper interpretation of empirical relationships between property values and air pollution levels within urban residential property markets (the ‘hedonic property value method’).