Econometrics Informing Natural Resources Management

Edited by Phoebe Koundouri, Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business, Research Professor, Technical University of Denmark, President, European Association of Environmental Resource Economists, Chair, World Council of Environmental and Resource Economists Associations, Chair, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Global Climate Hub

• Contents: Introduction 1. Econometrics Informing Natural Resources Management: Introducing the Book 2. Sustainability Informed by Econometrics: The Dynamics of the Long-run Discount Rate Part I: Static and Dynamic Estimation of Natural Resource Demand 3. Water Pricing Reforms in Mexico: The Case of the Manufacturing Sector 4. Residential Water Demand in the Slovak Republic 5. Estimating Urban Water Demands: A Dynamic ApproachPart II: Valuation Methods 6. Households' Valuation of Domestic Water in Indonesia: Revisiting the Supply Driven Approach 7. Conflicts in Wildlife Conservation: Aggregating Total Economic Values 8. Contingent Ranking of River Water Quality Improvements 9. Environmental Resource Information and the Validity of Non-use Values: The Case of Remote Mountain Lakes Part III: Estimation Under Uncertainty 10. The Role of Risk Properties and Farm Risk Aversion on Crop Diversity Conservation 11. Stochastic Production in a Regulated Fishery: The Importance of Risk Considerations 12. Is Irrigation Water Demand Really Convex? Part IV: Recent Advances in Econometrics Methods Applied to Natural Resource Management 13. Contrasting Conventional with Multinational-level Modelling Approaches to Meta-Analysis: Expectation Consistency 14. Individual-Specific Welfare Measures for Public Goods: A Latent Class Approach to Residential Customers of Yorkshire Water 15. Estimation of Resource Management Objectives through Empirical Likelihood: Can Regulatory Policies and Economic Optimization be Reconciled? 16. Examining the Environmental Kuznets Curve: What Can Kernel Estimation Say? Index

'. . . my impression is that this is certainly a good book. I am sure that it will make a valuable contribution to the field; hence I recommend that scholars in the field of natural resource economics read it.'