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Valuing the Environment

General
National Accounts and GNP
Critique of Valuation
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Further References on Cost-Benefit Analysis
Valuing Biodiversity
General Biodiversity

General

Sharon Beder, The Nature of Sustainable Development, 2nd ed.,Scribe, Newham, 1996, ch. 6-8.

David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Edward Barbier, Blueprint for a Green Economy, Earthscan Publications Ltd, London, 1989.

Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr, For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future, Beacon Press, Boston, 1989.

Michael Jacobs, The Green Economy: Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future, Pluto Press, London, 1991.

G.Tyler Miller, Living in the Environment: An Introduction to Environmental Science, 6th edition, Wadsworth Publishing, Belmont, 1990, chapter 22.

Sandra Postel and Christopher Flavin, 'Reshaping the Global Economy’ in Lester Brown et al, State of the World 1991, Allen & Unwin, 1990, chapter 10.

Joseph Seneca & Michael Taussig, Environmental Economics, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1984.

D.J. Thampapillai, Environmental Economics, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1991.

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National Accounts and GNP

Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr, For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future, Beacon Press, Boston, 1989, chapter 3.

David Duthie, ‘How Green to Grow a Green Economy’, New Scientist, 30 January 1993, p. 40.

Robyn Eckersley, ‘A green framework for sustainable development’ in Ecopolitics V Proceedings, ed. Ronnie Harding, Centre for Liberal and General Studies, UNSW, 1992, pp. 127&endash;34.

Robert Repetto, ‘Wasting assets: The need for national resource accounting’, Technology Review, January 1989, pp. 39&endash;44.

Marilyn Waring, Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth, Allen & Unwin, New Zealand, 1988.

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society, 2nd edn revised, Penguin, Ringwood, 1969, chapter 9.

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Critique of Valuation

Donald Brown, 'The role of economics in sustainable development and environmental protection', in Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics and Public Policy, edited by John Lemons and Donald Brown, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995, pp. 52-63.

Ian G. Barbour, Technology, Environment and Human Values, Praegar, New York, 1980.

John Bowers, Economics of the Environment: The Conservationists’ Response to the Pearce Report, British Association of Nature Conservationists, 1990, p. 17.

Larry Lohmann, ‘Dismal green science’, Ecologist, vol. 21, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 1991, p. 194.

Peter Self, ‘Market ideology and good government’, Current Affairs Bulletin, September 1990, pp. 4&endash;10.

Frank Stilwell, ‘The use of cost&endash;benefit analysis in the formulation of policy on potentially unsafe consumer goods’, Report for the National Consumer Affairs Advisory Council, January 1986.

Rob White, ‘Towards a green political economy: the market’, in Ecopolitics V Proceedings, ed. Ronnie Harding, CLGS, UNSW, 1992, pp. 150&endash;155.

John O'Neill, Ecology, Policy and Politics: Human well being and the natural world, Routledge, London, 1993.

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Cost-Benefit Analysis

Peter Abelson, Cost Benefit Analysis and Environmental Problems, Saxon House, UK, 1979.

Nancy Beckham, ‘Trees: finding their true value’, Australian Horticulture, August 1991, p. 16.

David Collingridge, Decisions on Technology&emdash;Techniques and Policies, Technology Policy Unit, University of Aston, 1977.

David Pearce, Cost&endash;Benefit Analysis, 2nd edn, Macmillan, London, 1983.

Alan Randall, Resource Economics: An Economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, 2nd edn, John Wiley, New York, 1987, part IV.

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FURTHER REFERENCES ON COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS

Alexander (1978) The Planning Balance Sheet: An Appraisal. Chapter in "Australian Project Evaluation - Selected readings", edited by J.C. McMaster and G.R. Webb, ANZ Book Co.

Chapman, D. & Armstrong, G.(1994) "Defining the Ecotourist" National Parks Joumal, February 1994.

Department of Finance (DOF) (1991) Handbookof CostBenefitAnalysis, AGPS Canberra

Department of Planning (DOP) (1985) Manual for Environmental Impact Assessment, Dept. of Env. & Planning, Sydney

Dusgupta, A. & Pearce, D. (1972) Cost-BenefitAnalysis: Theoryand Practice, Macmillian, London.

Forestry Commission (1992) Forests 'Satisfy Most Visitors', Bush Telegraph, page 7, July 1992.

Gibbs, D. (1993) The Consideration of Unpriced Values in an Assessment of the Economic Impacts of Management of State Forests, paper presented at Sustainable Forestry conference, University of New England, February 1993.

Hufschmidt, M., James, D., Meister, A., Bower, B., Dixon, J., (1983) Environment, Natural Systems and Development: An Economic Valuation Guide, John Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Industry Commission (1993) Adding Further Value to Australia's Forest Products, Report No. 32, AGPS, Canberra.

James. D. (1992) Environmental Economics and Forest Management, a paper presented to the EIA National Workshop, Hobart, October 1992.

James D. (1993) Economic Analysis in Environmental Impact Assessments for Forestry Activities, working document (25/10/93) quoted with permission.

Jacobs, M (1991 ) The Green Economy; Environment, sustainable development and the politics of the future, Pluto press, London.

Jacobs, M (1993) Environmental Economics, Sustainable Development and Successful Economies, Resource Assessment Commission, occasional paper No. 4.

Knetsch, J. (1993) Environmental Valuation: Some Practical Problems of Wrong Questions and Misleading Answers, Resource Assessment Commission Occasional Paper # 5, AGPS, Canberra.

Krutilla J., & Fisher A. (1975) The Economics of Natural Environments, Resources for the Future, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

Land Conservation Council (1993) A Social and Economic Impact Assessment in the Central Highlands (Melbourne Area District 2) Victoria, prepared by Henshall Hansen Associates and Read Sturgess & Associates.

Mishan, E. (1977) Elements of Cost-benefitAnalysis, 2nd ed., George Allen and Unwin, London.

Munasinghe, M. (1993) Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development, World Bank Environment Paper Number 3, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.

NSW Treasury, (1990) NSW Govemment Guidelines for Economic Appraisal, NSW Treasury Technical Paper

Raphael, R. (1981) Tree talk - the People and Politics of rmber. Ray Rapheal, Island Press, Covelo, California (USA).

Rees, R. (1984) Public Enterprise Economics, 2nd ed., Weidenfield and Nicholson, London.

Sinden J. (1993) Cost Benem Analysis, notes from cost benefit analysis course - continuing education program, Macquarie University

Sinden J. & Worrell A. (1979) Unpriced Values: Decisions without Market Prices, John Wiley and Sons, New York.

Streeting, M. & Hamilton, C.(1991) An Economic Analysis of the Forests of South-EasteM Australia, Research Paper Number 5.

Young M. (1992) Sustainable Investment and Resource Use: Equity, Environmental Integrity and Economic Efliciency, UNESCO and Parthenon.

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Valuing Biodiversity

Sharon Beder, The Nature of Sustainable Development, 2nd ed., Scribe, Newham, 1996, ch. 9.

John Dixon & Paul Sherman, ‘Economics of protected areas’, Ambio, vol. 20, no. 2, April 1991, pp. 68&endash;74.

Jeffrey McNeely et al., Conserving the World’s Biological Diversity, IUCN, WRI, CI, WWF and the World Bank, Switzerland and Washington, DC., 1990, chapters 1 and 2.

Jeffrey A. McNeely, Economics and Biological Diversity: Developing and Using Economic Incentives to Conserve Biological Resources, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, 1988, p12.

Alan Randall, ‘The value of biodiversity’, Ambio, vol. 20, no. 2, April 1991, pp. 64&endash;7.

Resources Assessment Commission (RAC) 1992, Forest and Timber Inquiry Final Report, vol. 2B, AGPS, March, Appendix U.

Streeting, Mark & Hamilton, Clive 1991, An Economic Analysis of the Forests of South-Eastern Australia, Resource Assessment Commission, Research Paper no. 5.

Thampapillai, D. J. 1991, Environmental Economics, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, chapter 3.

Wilson, E. O. (ed.) 1988, Biodiversity, National Academy Press, Washington DC, chapters 21&endash;24.

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General Biodiversity

Arthington, A. H. and Hegerl, E. J. 1988. The Conservation Status of Australia's Wetlands, Surrey Beatty and Sons, Sydney.

Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1992. Australia's Environment - Issues and Facts, ABS, Canberra.

Banks, M., 1989. Conserving Rainforests, Wayland, Melbourne.

Biodiversity Unit, 1993. DEST, Biodiversity and its Value.

Blakers, M., Davies, S. J. J. F., and Reilly, P.N., 1985. The Atlas of Australian Birds, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.

Bonner et al, 1989. The Global Focus: People and Environment in Change, Jacaranda Wiley, Milton. Upper secondary.

Boyden, S., Dovers, D., and Shirlow, M., 1990. Our Biosphere under Threat - Ecological Realities and Australia's Opportunities, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.

Cameron, J. I., and Elix, J., (eds.) 1991. Recovering Ground: A Case Study Approach to Ecologically Sustainable Rural Land Management, Australian Conservation Foundation, Melbourne.

Cocks, D., 1992. Use With Care: Managing Australia's Natural Resources in the 2Ist Century, NSW University Press, Sydney.

Hayles, C.,The Importance of Biodiversity, World Wildlife Fund, Sydney.

House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment, Recreation and the Arts (HRSCERA) 1992: Biodiversity: the Contribution of Community-based Programs, and 1993. Biodiversity: the role of protected areas. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra,

Kennedy, M., 1990. Australia's Endangered Species, Simon and Schuster, Sydney.

Miller, G. T., 1992. Living in the Environment, 7th Edition, Wadsworth, Belmont, California. Upper secondary.

Reid, W. V., and Miller, K. R., 1989. Keeping Options Alive: The Scientific Basis for Conserving Biological Diversity, World Resources Institute, Washington DC.

Saunders, D. A., Hopkins, A. J. M., and How, R. A., (eds.) 1990. Australian Ecosystems: 200 Years of Utilisation, Degradation and Reconstruction, Surrey Beatty and Sons, Sydney.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1992. Global Biodiversity Status of the Earth's Living Resources, Chapman and Hall, London.

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