Product Description

With contributions from economists, ecologists, and government agency professionals, this book provides a multidisciplinary approach to environmental decision making at a watershed level. It integrates ecological risk assessment (ERA) and economic analysis to improve environmental management in a diversity of watersheds. It includes different points of view concerning the extent to which each study achieves an ideal framework for the integration of ERA and economic analysis. The practical focus on real-world decisions includes the effects of urban development, mining, and water withdrawal for agriculture and also evaluates the socioeconomic and institutional dimensions of decision making.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2386644 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 472 pages

Review
Ecologists would do well to read this book, examine its case studies, and seriously consider their implications for ecological research and assessment.
-- Glenn Suter, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

…This volume, uniquely in my experience, brings together a conceptual framework for combining economic valuation and ecological risk assessment…provides some context for the whole effort within the institutional realities of American environmental management agencies.
-- Alan Randall, Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University

…This volume, uniquely in my experience, brings together a conceptual framework for combining economic valuation and ecological risk assessment…provides some context for the whole effort within the institutional realities of American environmental management agencies.
-- Alan Randall, Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University