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Time to update the encyclopedia (don't follow that link unless you can stomach self-promotion): Tropical forests store huge amounts of carbon. When their trees are cut or burned, the carbon is eventually released into the atmosphere, mixing with oxygen to form the long-lasting greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. The pace of deforestation is so great today…
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At the risk of biting a hand that fed me a tiny morsel, here's an interesting take on the Amazon/Hachette book fight. To me, the interesting piece here is the question of value-added. What value does the publisher add to the publishing process? In the traditional book purchasing paradigm, when a reader bought a…
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I just previewed Stated Preference Methods Using R by Aizaki, Nakatani and Sato.The A-P Sounds data that Tim, Ju-Chin Huang and myself used to get to know each other better is provided with the book and used as an example. Here is the double bounded Turnbull: Here is the endorsement I wrote for the…
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I stopped sending my env-econ.net posts to my facebook account (I'm sure some of my facebook friends get annoyed by them … some "friends", right?). The link for our blog site is here: https://www.facebook.com/environmentalecon. I *think* all of our posts are arriving via RSS Graffiti (if anyone knows of a better way to do it please…
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From the RESECON listserv: We are pleased to announce that the third Edition of "The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values: Theory and Methods" by A. Myrick Freeman III, Joseph A. Herriges, and Catherine L. Kliong has now been published. For details, see: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415501583/ Rick, Joe, and Cathy
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Tyler Cowen: The authors are Levitt and Dubner and the subtitle is The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain. This is a beautifully written book, as good as the original Freakonomics. My favorite parts were the discussion of the Japanese hot dog eater Kobayashi and his training/learning regime, why van Halen had the…
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From the inbox: In view of the cost of money transmission, we normally carry forward amounts of less than $25 to the next royalty date. However, if you wish to receive the small amount now due before then, kindly ring the contact number show on this statement.
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John and my latest page turner: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: An Encyclopedia is currently #289,553 on Amazon's bestseller list. For $84.55 and free shipping, you can help our rapid ascent into the upper eschelon of dorkitude. And you can get breathtaking prose like this: Under shadow of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in…
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From the comments: I was wondering if there is a table of contents available somewhere. Here is a PDF that contains all of the front and back matter (except for the introduction) of the Encyclopedia of Environmental and Resource Economics: Download Contents etc. Here is a PDF of a sample entry (CVM, by Haab and…
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