Perman, Ma, Common, Maddison & McGilvray

NATURAL RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

Chapter 6: Pollution control: instruments

•  Biodiversity instruments.pdf   A discussion of instruments for conserving biological diversity.
•  Transport.pdf  An analysis of instruments for controlling mobile source (transport) pollution.
•  Agriculture.pdf  On agricultural pollution and the economics of agriculture.
•  Leastcost.xls  Analyses the example used in Section 6.2 and to be used to answer Problem 6.2.
•  Ambient instruments.xls Worked example of the problem in Section 6.x, and also used in Problem 6.12.
•  Ambient instruments.mw  A Maple file which replicates the calculations used in the chapter regarding a spatially distributed stock pollutant
•  Pollution.xls  Simulates the relative cost-efficiencies of several alternative pollution control instruments.
•  Pollution2a.xls  Excel file containing answers to the exercises in Pollution.pdf.
•  Pollution.pdf  Word file outlining the structure of the file Pollution.xls, and listing a set of exercises based on that Excel file examining relative cost-efficiencies of several alternative pollution control instruments.
•  Box 7-10 from the 3rd edition  This box was not included in the 4th edition.
•  Bob Main paper  A short paper by Bob Main showing (for a special case)how and why an emmissions fee is more efficient than an output tax.
•  Bob Main.xls  Excel file doing the computations that are used in the Bob Main paper.
•  Voluntary Compliance   A list of articles suggested by readers on the RESECON mailing list, and compiled by Dawn Cassandra Parker
•  Chapter 6 pictures