Energy, the Environment, and Public Policy

DAVID L. McKEE is Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of Management at Kent State University. He is a specialist in economic development and regional economics whose research has been widely published in professional journals in the United States and abroad. He has also authored Schumpeter and the Political Economy of Change and Developmental Issues in Small Island Economies (Praeger, 1991 and 1990) and edited Hostile Takeovers: Issues in Public and Corporate Policy, Growth, Development, and the Service Economy in the Third World and Canadian-American Economic Relations (Praeger, 1989, 1988, and 1988, respectively).

• PrefaceIntroductionA Preliminary OverviewThe Environment and Economic Welfare by Clement A. TisdellSome General PositioningEnvironmental and Energy Policy in the Reagan Presidency: Implications for the 1990s by Michael E. KraftEnvironmental Restraint: Living Lightly or Not Living by John E. CarrollIt's Not Easy Being Green by Frank E. MosierSelected Environmental IssuesPlant Locations and Environmental Regulation by William D. GuntherEconomic Impacts of Solid Waste Disposal Sites by Joseph Havlicek, Jr.Recycling Behavior: The Causal Role of Demographic, Communication and Attitudinal Factors by Florence W. Lansana, Milton E. Harvey, and John W. FrazierAcid Rain: Public Policy and Environmental Perception by Fred J. Starheim and Daniel V. SteenEnergy-Related ConcernsNational Security, Environmental Damage and Uncertainty: Fundamentals for Energy Policy by Darwin C. HallNuclear Oversight: A Critical Analysis of the Public Element in Decommissioning Policy by Martin J. PasqualettiSome International IssuesCanadian-U.S. Transboundary Environmental Issues: An Institutional Assessment by Edward R. BruningEconomic Diversification and the Environment in a Small Economy by Ransford W. PalmerDeveloping Countries and the Potential for Global Warming by Robert J. SaundersConclusionSome Final Reflections by David L. McKeeSelected BibliographyIndex