Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy
Concerns about energy security, uncertainty about oil prices, declining oil reserves, and global climate change are fueling a shift towards bioenergy as a renewable alternative to fossil fuels. Public policies and private investments around the globe are
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NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND POLICY Editors: David Zilberman Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 Renan Goetz Department of Economics University of Girona, Spain Alberto Garrido Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences E.T.S. Ingenieros Agrónomos, Madrid, Spain EDITORIAL STATEMENT There is a growing awareness to the role that natural resources such as water, land, forests and environmental amenities play in our lives. There are many competing uses for natural resources, and society is challenged to manage them for improving social well being. Furthermore, there may be dire consequences to natural resources mismanagement. Renewable resources such as water, land and the environment are linked, and decisions made with regard to one may affect the others. Policy and management of natural resources now require interdisciplinary approach including natural and social sciences to correctly address our society preferences. This series provides a collection of works containing most recent findings on economics, management and policy of renewable biological resources such as water, land, crop protection, sustainable agriculture, technology, and environmental health. It incorporates modem thinking and techniques of economics and management, Books in this series will incorporate knowledge and models of natural phenomena with economics and managerial decision frameworks to assess alternative options for managing natural resources and environment.
The Series Editors
HANDBOOK OF BIOENERGY ECONOMICS AND POLICY
MADHU KHANNA University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
JÜRGEN SCHEFFRAN University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
DAVID ZILBERMAN University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Editors Madhu Khanna Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1301 W. Gregory Dr. Urbana IL 61801 301A Mumford Hall USA [email protected] David Zilberman Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics College of Natural Resources University of California Berkeley 206 Giannini Hall Berkeley CA 94720-3310 USA [email protected]
Jürgen Scheffran ACDIS, CABER University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 505 East Armory Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA [email protected] Insitute for Geography Hamburg University ZMAW, Bundesstr. 53 20146 Hamburg Germany [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-0368-6 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0369-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0369-3 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009936725 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage
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