Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I MARKET FAILURE

`Market Solutions to Externality Problems: Theory and Practice', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 54 (2), May 1972, 175-83

`Market Failure and the Efficiency of Irrigated Agriculture' in Efficiency in Irrigation: The Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater Resources

Gerald T. O'Mara

PART II BENEFIT COST ANALYSIS

Relevance to Public Policy

`Taking Benefits and Costs Seriously' in The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 1999/2000

Henk Folmer

Tom Tietenberg

Theory

`Consumer's Surplus in Commodity Space'

John R. Stoll

`Too Many Proposals Pass the Benefit Cost Test'

John P. Hoehn

Methods

`Bidding Games for Valuation of Aesthetic Environmental Improvements', with Berry Ives and Clyde Eastman, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1, 1974, 132-49

`Valuing Increments and Decrements in Natural Resource Service Flows'

David S. Brookshire

John R. Stoll

`Existence Value in a Total Valuation Framework', with John R. Stoll in Managing Air Quality and Scenic Resources at National Parks and Wilderness Areas

Robert D. Rowe

Lauraine G. Chestnut

`A Satisfactory Benefit Cost Indicator from Contingent Valuation', with John P. Hoehn, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 14, 1987, 226-47

`Total and Nonuse Values' in Measuring the Demand for Environmental Quality

John B. Braden

Charles D. Kolstad

`A Difficulty with the Travel Cost Method', Land Economics, 70 (1), February 1994, 88-96

PART III SUSTAINABILITY AND BIODIVERSITY

`What Mainstream Economists Have to Say About the Value of Biodiversity' in Biodiversity

E. O. Wilson

`Thinking about the Value of Biodiversity' in Biodiversity and Landscapes: A Paradox of Humanity

Ke Chung Kim

Robert D. Weaver

`The Rationality of a Safe Minimum Standard'

Michael C. Farmer

PART IV METHODOLOGY

`Methodology, Ideology, and the Economics of Policy: Why Resource Economists Disagree', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 67 (5), December 1985, 1022-9

`What Practicing Agricultural Economists Really Need to Know About Methodology', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 75, October 1993, 48-59

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