| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 477 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Appendices; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1. About the book; 1.2. Environmental valuation in South Asia; 1.3. Valuation methods; 1.4. Implementing full cost pricing in agrarian settings; 1.5. Accounting for linked ecological and social systems; 1.6. Improved health outcomes; 1.7. Micro to macro: valuation and better measures of sustainable development; 1.8. Increasing revenues through better valuation; 1.9. Challenges to environmental valuation in developing countries; References |
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2 Environmental Valuation: A Review of Methods2.1. Environmental resources and economic valuation; 2.2. Environmental values; 2.3. Measuring environmental values and policy changes; 2.4. Valuation methods; 2.4.1. Production function approaches; 2.4.2. The household health production function model; 2.4.3. Travel cost methods; 2.4.4. Hedonic price methods; 2.4.5. Hedonic property value model; 2.4.6. Hedonic wage model; 2.4.7. Contingent valuation; 2.5. Conclusion; References; 3 Valuing the Environment as a Production Input; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Production function |
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3.2.1. Variables and assumptions3.2.2. Deriving the input demand function; 3.2.3. Change in profit, without and with input adjustment; 3.2.4. Magnitude of the change in profit; 3.3. Cost function; 3.3.1. Definition and characteristics; 3.3.2. Cost function for a production function with two variable inputs; 3.3.3. Deriving the marginal cost function; 3.3.4. Change in profit, without and with output adjustment; 3.3.5. Magnitude of the change in profit; 3.4. Profit Function; 3.4.1. Definition; 3.4.2. Deriving the output supply and profit functions; 3.4.3. Change in profit |
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3.5. Empirical implications3.5.1. Three types of individual functions -- input demand, marginal cost (or output supply), and profit -- can be used to estimate the change in profit resulting from an environmental change; 3.5.2. Use of full information requires estimating a system of equations, not just a single one; 3.5.3. Endogeneity: a potential source of bias in estimating all three functions, especially the production function; 3.5.4. Change in revenue: a biased measure of change in profit; 3.5.5. Change in cost: a biased measure of change in profit |
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3.6. Implications of relaxing key assumptions3.6.1. Multiple firms; 3.6.2. Noncompetitive markets; 3.6.3. Market distortions; 3.6.4. Missing markets and household production; 3.6.5. Risk; 3.6.6. Fixed inputs; 3.6.7. Multiple outputs; 3.6.8 Multiple inputs; 3.6.9. Nonconvexities; 3.7. Example: rainfall and rice in India; 3.7.1. Data; 3.7.2. Production function; 3.7.3. Profit function; References; 4 Should Shrimp Farmers Pay Paddy Farmers?: The Challenges of Examining Salinization Externalities in South India; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Study area; 4.3. Data; 4.4. Homogeneity of paddy villages |
| Summary |
"Provides an overview of different environmental problems in South Asia and examines how economic valuation techniques can be used to assess these problems"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmental economics -- South Asia
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Environmental quality.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Environmental economics
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Environmental quality
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South Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Haque, A. K. Enamul
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Murty, M. N. (Maddipati Narasimha), 1942-
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Shyamsundar, Priya, 1964-
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| LC no. |
2010040402 |
| ISBN |
9781139190800 |
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1139190806 |
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9780511843938 |
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0511843933 |
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1283378574 |
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9781283378574 |
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9781139188203 |
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1139188208 |
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113918590X |
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9781139185905 |
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1107227658 |
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9781107227651 |
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9786613378576 |
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6613378577 |
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1139189506 |
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9781139189507 |
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1139183583 |
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9781139183581 |
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