By Anne-Marie Codur, Jonathan M. Harris and Maliheh Birjandi Feriz Deforestation and degradation of forests and wetlands is a major contributor to climate change. At the same time, forests and other ecosystems have immense capacity to store carbon and to contribute to balancing global cycles of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases. Policies to […]
by Jonathan M. Harris, Brian Roach and Anne-Marie Codur This module, based on chapters 12 and 13 of Harris and Roach’s textbook, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach, discusses the scientific evidence on climate change, including recent projections on temperature and sea-level rise. It then evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of economic analysis of […]
By Frank Ackerman Anthem Press, 2017 208 pages, hardcover: $48.99 Order from Amazon
By Frank Ackerman Zed Books, 2009 (distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan) 160 pages, paperback: $20.95 Order from Palgrave Macmillan or Amazon “A progressive economist well-versed in the literature of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other scientists and scientific groups fearful of climate change impacts, Ackerman offers up a practical and useful response to […]
By Frank Ackerman Island Press, 2008; 352 pages, Hardcover, $50.00; Paperback: $25.00 Order from Island Press Order from Amazon “Cost-benefit analysis” is a term that is used so frequently we rarely stop to think about it. But relying on it can lead to some dubious conclusions, as Frank Ackerman points out in this eye-opening book. Inventing dollar […]
By Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling The New Press, 2004; 288 pages, Hardcover, $25.95; Paperback, $16.95 Order from Amazon Order from The New Press “How does one put a cost on a human life? And what effect does air pollution have on our health? Ackerman and Heinzerling focus on such questions in this volume, a […]
By Frank Ackerman Press, Washington, DC, 1997 Hardcover: $35.00; Paperback: $19.95, 210 pages For order information (hardcover), click here. For order information (paperback), click here Ackerman’s thoughtful, sure-to-be-controversial study lifts the debate over the merits of recycling to a new level . . .” — PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY “Remarkably sober, readable, and revealing. Essential for those connected to […]