This volume addressed cutting edge issues in the rapidly developing feild of environmental and natural economics. It comprises a series of specially commissioned papers by a cross-section of authors, ranging from well-established scholars to rising talent. The papers are centered around three key themes; the economics of population control, resources economics, and valuation. Within these board areas, the tropical issue discussed include non point pollution control, carbon taxes and carbon trading, international environmental agreements, the economics of rainforest loss, and choice modelling approches to environmental valuation.
