Description: For decades RFF's quarterly publication Resources has provided concise original essays that address environmental and resource issues. Teachers and students, journalists, policy analysts, and government officials look to Resources for readable, impartial, and often seminal treatments of troublesome questions. Esteemed environmental economist and RFF University Fellow Wallace Oates has compiled much of RFF's best work in this new volume.

The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Management combines material from the oft-cited pages of Resources with other important RFF writings in critical areas such as pollution control and climate change. The book's design is patterned on a college syllabus, making it ideally suited for course use in environmental studies and policy, natural resources, environmental and resource economics, and public policy. Its scope and value extend well beyond the classroom, however. A compact repository of balanced and authoritative policy analysis, The RFF Reader belongs on the bookshelf of any library, organization, or individual concerned about effective environmental and resource management.

As volume editor, Oates has assembled many of the best and most frequently requested articles to emerge from RFF. His selections address many of the core issues facing analysts, decision makers, and students today. The book includes sections on key environmental topics such as the role of science in policy formulation; benefit-cost analysis; environmental regulation; federalism; and environmental justice. Natural-resource sections include those on resource management, biodiversity, and sustainable development. Carefully selected research on global climate change andinternational environmental policy are included as well.

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