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Summary: This book is a comprehensive and innovative tool for researchers and students interested in the behavioural economics of the environment and in the design of policy interventions aimed at reducing the human impact on the environment.
This book provides a complete and rigorous overview of the most pressing topics related to behavioural economics and the environment. It collects state-of-the-art original research on this topical field and adopts a behavioural economics perspective that focuses on the effects of psychological, social, and cognitive factors on the decision-making process.
Discussion of different methods of research (e.g., experiments, surveys, meta-analyses) is combined with the most recent trends of this line of research offered by influential scholars in behavioural and environmental economics.
Citation: Bucciol, A., A. Tavoni, and M. Veronesi (2023), Behavioural Economics and the Environment: A Research Companion, Routledge (ISBN 9781032003535).
Summary: Many studies have shown an association between environmental exposures and certain health conditions. A responsibility of many government agencies is to protect the health of the citizens from environmental pollutants, through the implementation of specific regulations. Estimates of the labor market impacts of these diseases constitute an important component of benefit estimation, for regulatory impact analyses of health and safety regulations. The main goal of this book is to show how specific adults’ and children’s health conditions potentially linked to environmental pollution exposure affect the labor market decisions of households in the United States. This study considers first, the direct effect of a married woman or married man’s health on their own labor market outcomes; second, the influence of a spouse’s health conditions on the other spouse’s labor market decisions; and third, the impact of a child’s chronic health condition on parents’ labor market outcomes. The findings of this study are of importance in informing national health policies, and more generally, in designing social programs.
Citation: Veronesi, M. (2013), Environmental Risks, Health, and Households’ Labor Market Response.Empirical Evidence from the United States, pp. 1-156, Scholars’ Press (ISBN: 978-3-639-51795-8).
Summary: The general objective of this book is to provide a reference work on making integrated environmental policy decisions in managing public goods and natural parks. A public resource such as a natural park has many different functions (for example, production of marketed goods, ecosystem protection, tourism), and its management requires a multidisciplinary approach covering various areas of expertise. This book is the result of a multidisciplinary effort in which the economics discipline plays a central role. Nonetheless, the proper management of public resources requires the knowledge of the physical, biological and ecological characteristics of the functions supplied by the resource and the value of each function and of the public resource as a whole. The innovative approach proposed in the book consists in the integration of the assessment and management aspects of the policy decision process.
Citation: Cooper, J., F. Perali, and M. Veronesi (eds.) (2006), Integrated Assessment and Management of Public Resources, pp. 1-238, Edward Elgar (ISBN: 9781845424725).