It covers the full range of issues presently at the forefront of environmental policy including key aspects of such critical areas as:

* Pollution

* Resource stocks

* Sustainability

* Global environmental policy

* Land use conflicts

From zoning to minerals policy the Handbook provides expert background and analysis that brings the two major fields of environmental and natural resource economics together for the first time in one volume.

The Handbook will be invaluable to students, researchers and faculty as well as to policy makers and those with a wider interest in the issues.