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The WSPC Reference on Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change provides a comprehensive and prominent reference of various highly authoritative volumes of long-term scientific value, for milestone concepts and theories. The books in the reference set are edited by leading experts in the fields of: Game Theory, International Relations and Global Politics, Computable General Equilibrium (CGE): Economy-Wide Modeling, and Experimental Economics. Each book in the reference set includes chapters that are laid out by recognized, broadly respected researchers, in fields associated with issues related to natural resources and environmental policy in the era of global change. The reference set focuses on the economic and strategic aspects of interactions among various parts of society, all dependent on the availability and utilization of limited natural resources and their impact on the environment. Policy implications are addressed, including current challenges and future perspectives.

The combination of the four books provides a unique perspective on the issues that engage the public discourse of researchers and policy-makers at state, regional, and global levels. Each of the books in the reference set and all four books as a whole provide coverage of disciplines and angles through which the reader can obtain an understanding of the state-of-the-art of dealing with natural resources and environmental policy in the era of global change. The books in the reference set complement each other and provide a scientific understanding of our ability to address the issues covered.

Contents:
  • Volume 1: Game Theory:
    • Overcoming Principal–Agent Problems to Improve Cooperative Governance of Internationally Shared Fisheries (Megan Bailey, Niels Vestergaard and U Rashid Sumaila)
    • Common Property Resource Exploitation under Imperfect Competition (Hassan Benchekroun)
    • Mitigation and Solar Radiation Management in Climate Change Policies (Vassiliki Manoussi and Anastasios Xepapadeas)
    • On the Strategic Use of Import Tariffs to Control Trans-Boundary Externalities (Charles F Mason, Victoria I Umanskaya and Edward B Barbier)
    • Non-Point Source Pollution in an International Context (Kathleen Segerson)
    • Game Theoretic Modeling of Environmental NGOs in an International Context (Anthony Heyes and Bogdan Urban)
    • On the Interplay between Resource Extraction and Polluting Emissions in Oligopoly (Luca Lambertini)
    • Deforestation and REDD+: Taking Stock of the Latest Institutional Possibilities (Charles Figuières and Estelle Midler)
    • Climate Policies, Technical Change and R&D (André Grimaud and Luc Rouge)
    • Strategic Behavior and the Porter Hypothesis (Francisco J André)
    • Transboundary Pollution, Clean Technologies and International Environmental Agreements (Hassan Benchekroun and Amrita Ray Chaudhuri)
    • International Trade and the Environmental Goods and Services Industry (Solveig Delabroye, Alain-Désiré Nimubona and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné)
    • Differential Games: Solution Concepts and Applications to Global Resources and Environmental Problems (Ngo Van Long)
  • Volume 2: The Social Ecology of the Anthropocene: Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics:
    • Challenges of the Anthropocene:
      • The Science of the Anthropocene (Kristen A Goodrich and Evgenia Nizkorodov)
      • The Discursive Construction of the New Arctic (Elizabeth Mendenhall)
      • Governance through Goal-Setting: A New Governance Challenge for Navigating Sustainability in the 21st Century (Norichika Kanie)
    • Continuity and Innovation in Global Environmental Politics:
      • The Advent of Science Diplomacy (Robert G Patman and Lloyd S Davis)
      • "Making a Difference in the World": Perspectives of Climate Scientists on Transnational Scientific Cooperation (Lucie Edwards)
      • Sustaining Public–Private Partnerships (George Shambaugh and Richard Matthew)
      • The Role of the University: Engaged Scholarship in the Anthropocene (Beth Karlin, Candice Carr Kelman, Kristen A Goodrich and Victoria Lowerson Bredow)
      • Farming for Walmart: The Politics of Corporate Control and Responsibility in the Global South (Sara Elder and Peter Dauvergne)
      • Can Public-Private Partnerships Help Rebuild War-Torn Societies? (Michael D Beevers)
      • Challenges for Recovery in the Face of a Sustained HIV/AIDS Crisis and Structural Mismanagement: Lessons from Swaziland (Connor Harron)
      • Rethinking the Water-Food-Energy-Climate Security Nexu (Richard Matthew)
      • Encountering IRENA: Governance and Global Governmentalities of Renewable Energy (Franziska Mueller)
      • Relationship of Mexico's National Strategy for Climate Change and Energy Policy Reforms: Commitment to International Affairs? (Gustavo Sosa-Nunez)
      • Democratizing Water? Public–Public Partnerships in the Global South (Madeline Baer)
      • Cities as a Transformative Nexus (Bemmy Maharramli)
      • Climate Justice Practices in the Anthropocene: Assessing Strategies of Human Rights and Gender Advocacy Networks in the UNFCC (Linda Wallbott and Andrea Schapper)
      • Participation, Power and the Politics of Multiscalar Climate Justice (Corina McKendry)
      • Crowdsourcing Sustainable Development Goals from Global Civil Society (Joshua C Gellers)
      • Designing Knowledge-Based, Integrated Management Systems for Environmental Governance (Steinar Andresen, Kristin Rosendal and Jon B Skjærseth)
      • Social Struggles in Uganda's Acholiland: Understanding Responses and Resistance to Amuru Sugar Works (Giuliano Martiniello)
  • Volume 3: Computable General Equilibrium Models:
    • CGE Modeling Issues:
      • Computable General Equilibrium Models: Historical Background and Basic Structure (Artem Korzhenevych)
      • The Global Trade Analysis Project's (GTAP's) Database and CGE Model as a Tool for Agricultural and Environmental Economic Analysis (Roman Keeney, Badri Narayanan and Ernesto Valenzuela)
      • CGE Models: Linking Natural Resources to the CGE Framework (Angelo Gurgel, Y-H Henry Chen, Sergey Paltsev and John Reilly)
    • CGE Models Applied to Sectoral Aspects: Energy, Trade, Water, Health, and Food:
      • Review of CGE Models of Water Issues (Alvaro Calzadilla, Katrin Rehdanz, Roberto Roson, Martina Sartori and Richard S J Tol)
      • CGE Models of Infectious Diseases: With a Focus on Influenza (George Verikios)
      • CGE Models of Free Trade and Environment with Case Study of India (Koushik Das)
      • Economic Assessment of Climate, Energy and Air Quality Policies in the EU with the GEM-E3 Model: An Overview (Bert Saveyn, Leonidas Paroussos, Wojciech Szewczyk, Toon Vandyck, Juan-Carlos Ciscar, Panagiotis Karkatsoulis, Kostas Fragkiadakis, Panagiotis Fragkos, Zoi Vrontisi, Pantelis Capros and Denise Van Regemorter)
      • Global Assessment of Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change using CGE Model (Tomoko Hasegawa, Shinichiro Fujimori, Yonghee Shin, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Toshihiko Masui and Akemi Tanaka)
      • A Global Computable General Equilibrium Model Coupled with Bottom-Up Energy End-Use Technology (Shinichiro Fujimori, Toshihiko Masui and Yuzuru Matsuoka)
      • Climate Economics, Bioenergy, and Land Use in a General Equilibrium Framework (Ronald D Sands and Shellye A Suttles)
      • CGE Models of Optimal Energy Depletion (Hodjat Ghadimi)
    • Specific Environmental and Resource Issues with Regional Implications:
      • CGE Modeling: Alternative Structural Specifications for the Evaluation of Carbon Taxes. Simulations for Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean (Omar O Chisari and Sebastián Miller)
      • Assessing the Effects of Biofuel Quotas on Agricultural Markets (Alvaro Calzadilla, Ruth Delzeit and Gernot Klepper)
      • CGE Models of the Economic Impacts of Climate Change with a Case Study of the Caribbean (Roberto Roson)
  • Volume 4: Experimental Economics:
    • Economic Experiments on Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change: An Introduction (Anabela Botelho)
    • Appropriation from a Common Pool Resource: Effects of the Characteristics of the Common Pool Resource, the Appropriators and the Existence of Communication (Neil J Buckley, Stuart Mestelman, R Andrew Muller, Mackenzie Rogers, Stephan Schott and Jingjing Zhang)
    • Passionate Providers and the Possibility of Public Commitment (Luke A Boosey, R Mark Isaac and Douglas A Norton)
    • Addressing the Private Wildfire Risk Mitigation Paradox in a Climate-Altered Wildland Urban Interface (Joseph M Little, Tyler Prante, Michael L Jones, Michael McKee and Robert P Berrens)
    • Collective Action in Dangerous Climate Change Games (Astrid Dannenberg and Alessandro Tavoni)
    • Playing Safe: The Role of Quotas to Avoid Ecosystem Regime Shifts (Therese Lindahl, Nikolina Oreskovic and Anne-Sophie Crépin)
    • Behavioral Economics and Climate Change Adaptation: Insights from Experimental Economics on the Role of Risk and Time Preferences (Maria Bernedo and Paul J Ferraro)
    • EU ETS Allocation Rules: An Experimental Examination of the Ausubel Auction (Anabela Botelho, Eduarda Fernandes and Lígia M Costa Pinto)
Readership: Policy-makers and officials of regional and international agencies, non-governmental organizations, etc.

Ariel Dinar is a Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside. His work addresses various aspects of economic and strategic behavior of management of natural resources and the environment. Dr Dinar received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since then he spent 15 years in the World Bank working on water economics and climate change issues. In 2009, Dr Dinar moved to academia, where he assumed a professorship at University of California, Riverside. Dr Dinar founded the Water Science and Policy Center, which he directed until 2014. Dr Dinar is an International Fellow of the Center for Agricultural Economic Research of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel since November 2010; a Fulbright Senior Specialist since 2003; and was named the 2015 Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. He authored and co-authored nearly 150 peer reviewed papers and co-authored and edited 24 books and textbooks. He founded two technical journals (Strategic Behavior and the Environment, and Water Economics and Policy) for which he serves as an Editor-in-Chief.


Felix Munoz-Garcia is an Associate Professor in the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University since 2014. His research focuses on the areas of microeconomics, industrial organization, and game theory, with applications to environmental regulation under incomplete information and firms' entry-deterring practices in polluting industries. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh.


Ana Espinola-Arredondo is an Associate Professor in the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University since 2014. Her research and teaching focus on the areas of environmental economics and industrial organization. She received a PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh and was awarded the Research Medal Award of the Global Development Network, sponsored by the World Bank. She has several publications in the field of environmental economics in which she has analyzed the strategic behavior of firms under the presence of environmental regulation and uncertainty.


Richard M Matthew, PhD (Princeton) is a Professor of Planning, Policy and Design and Political Science; Director of the Blum Center for Global Engagement (http://blumcenter.uci.edu); Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (www.cusa.uci.edu); and Co-Principal Investigator of the FloodRISE Project (http://floodrise.uci.edu), all at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding, and has served on several UN peacebuilding missions, including two he led in Sierra Leone. He has over 170 publications, including 11 books.


Tony Bryant is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Macquarie University at Sydney, Australia. He holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Western Sydney and after a short period working for the Commonwealth Department of Minerals and Energy in Canberra, he moved into academia. He has had visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Cambridge University in England, and XLRI — Xavier School of Management in India, among other places. His main research interests are in microeconomics, general equilibrium theory, and game theory. Dr Bryant's recent book, General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence (Singapore: World Scientific, 2009), was very favorably reviewed in Zentralblatt MATH. That monograph contains a careful and extended investigation of the foundations of general equilibrium. It turns up some surprising and compelling conclusions about conditions necessary for general equilibrium. He has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and research reports in microeconomics, general equilibrium, and related areas.


Anabela Botelho is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal where she serves as the Coordinator for Economic Studies, and for the research in Competitiveness, Innovation and Sustainability in the GOVCOPP (Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies) Research Centre funded by the Portuguese National Science Foundation. Prior to joining the University of Aveiro, Dr Botelho was a Professor of Economics at the University of Minho in Portugal, where she founded an Experimental Economics Laboratory and co-founded and directed an Applied Microeconomics Research Unit. She has served as a court-appointed expert for the Labor Court in Braga, Portugal, and as a representative of the Rectors of the Portuguese Universities at the Portuguese National Superior Council of Statistics. Dr Botelho received her PhD in Economics (1998) from the University of South Carolina, US, and has published her research in international journals such as Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Research in Experimental Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Telecommunications Policy, Economics of Education Review, Waste Management, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.