The complex real-world interactions between the economy and the environment form both the focus of and main barrier to applied research within the field of environmental economics. However, geographical information systems (GIS) allow economists to tackle such complexity head on by directly incorporating diverse datasets into applied research rather than resorting to simplifying and often unrealistic assumptions. This innovative book applies GIS techniques to spatial cost-benefit analysis of a complex and topical land use change problem--the conversion of agricultural land to multipurpose woodland--looking in detail at issues such as opportunity costs, timber yield, recreation, carbon storage, etc.,
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'A fine example here of economic valuation being put to an imaginative and unique use by some of the most exciting practitioners of the art of economic valuation.' David W. Pearce, from the Foreword
'Researchers in the field of land use and economic valuation will find this study a source of information and inspiration.' Netherlands Economic Review
'This book succeeds in providing a detailed example of the contribution of GIS techniques to cost-benefit analysis and it describes an application of environmental economic analysis to real-world decision making.' Environment and Planning A
'Researchers in the field of land use and economic valuation will find this study a source of information and inspiration.' Netherlands Economic Review
'This book succeeds in providing a detailed example of the contribution of GIS techniques to cost-benefit analysis and it describes an application of environmental economic analysis to real-world decision making.' Environment and Planning A
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One of the first books to demonstrate the power of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) applied to environmental economics problems. The authors show how GIS can be used to model complex real world interactions between the environment and the economy, making possible a more sophisticated evaluation of the costs and benefits of environmental policies than conventional cost-benefit techniques allow. Using an extended case study of a land use change problem, the authors develop an innovative methodology that has important applications to economists, environmental managers and regiona l planners.
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Perhaps the most often quoted definition of an economist is of someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
various yield classes, optimal felling age, payment principle refusals, soil carbon flux, carbon liberation, woodland values, carbon sequestration values, milk farming, soil carbon change, woodland benefits, woodland recreation, outset origin, consumer surplus estimates, liberation distributions, conversion from agriculture, digital road network, annum responses, forestry expansion, felling waste, soil carbon levels, travel time zones, annualised equivalents, various discount rates, net carbon storage, net carbon flux Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Forestry Commission, Thetford Forest, Great Britain, Department of Transport, Second World War, Countryside Commission, Department of the Environment, Farm Business Survey, Norfolk Broads, Cabinet Office, Ministry of Agriculture, Ordnance Survey, Adrian Whiteman, Central Statistical Office, Enumeration Districts, Land Information System, New Forest, Welsh Office, Castle Douglas, European Union, Examining Table, Forest of Dean, Inspection of Table, Loch Awe, Lynford Stag New!
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Perhaps the most often quoted definition of an economist is of someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
various yield classes, optimal felling age, payment principle refusals, soil carbon flux, carbon liberation, woodland values, carbon sequestration values, milk farming, soil carbon change, woodland benefits, woodland recreation, outset origin, consumer surplus estimates, liberation distributions, conversion from agriculture, digital road network, annum responses, forestry expansion, felling waste, soil carbon levels, travel time zones, annualised equivalents, various discount rates, net carbon storage, net carbon flux Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Forestry Commission, Thetford Forest, Great Britain, Department of Transport, Second World War, Countryside Commission, Department of the Environment, Farm Business Survey, Norfolk Broads, Cabinet Office, Ministry of Agriculture, Ordnance Survey, Adrian Whiteman, Central Statistical Office, Enumeration Districts, Land Information System, New Forest, Welsh Office, Castle Douglas, European Union, Examining Table, Forest of Dean, Inspection of Table, Loch Awe, Lynford Stag New!
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- The Common Agricultural Policy, 2nd Edition (Cabi) by Christopher Ritson on 6 pages
- Environmental Economics (Modern economics) by D. W. Pearce on 6 pages
- Environmental Economics: An Elementary Introduction by R. Kerry Turner on 6 pages
- East Anglia (Lets Go With the Children) by Jill Taylor on 4 pages
- Department of the Environment: Town and Country Planning Service: [Hc]: [1995-96]: House of Commons Papers: [1995-96] by J.M. Dowdall in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Applied Geography: A World Perspective (GeoJournal Library) by Antoine Bailly on page 110
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