This article updates Kelly and Bruestle (2011) by illustrating how publication trends in different subject categories in economics evolved from 2007 to 2013. Using data from RePEc we show that the largest increase in the relative share was for articles published in JEL category Q (“Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, Environmental and Ecological Economics”) over this period. Furthermor...

Sustainable development is one of the most debated issues, recently. In terms of providing more livable Earth continuity, while Production activities are going on, on the other hand protecting the environment has importance. As a strategy for sustainable development, eco-innovation is the application of innovations to reduce environmental burdens. Endeavors to understand ecoinnovation processes...

This paper deals with the interface between science and economics in environmental policy making in India. It explains Nehru‘s concept of scientific temper and its influence in the formulation of science and technology policy and development of the science and technology system. It reviews the evolution of global environmental policy regime and the important role assigned to science to gain ins...

Ecological economics arose in the final decades of the 20th century out of concerns for environmental protection and economic sustainability. It was largely a response to a real or perceived lack of physical and biological underpinnings in neoclassical economics. It was also intended to infuse economics with a moral philosophy, in contrast with the amoral implications of neoclassical models por...

Over the years, environmentalists have expressed considerable hostility towards economics and economists. The view is that economics is part of the problem rather than the solution; economics is seen as the ideology of those who exploit the environment and consistently dismiss environmental concerns as `too expensive'. Too often political leaders and others argue that new measures to protect th...

Most insights of environmental economics are in line with the standard neoclassical economic model of rational behaviour, formulated in terms of maximization of utility in general, or profits in particular. The standard theory of environmental policy is a case in point. However, the maximization hypothesis and its methodological foundation have been criticized on many grounds, related to a lack...

Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry by Stephen P. Ryan Department of Economics Duke University

This paper discusses contributions that women at the intersection of agricultural economics and environmental resource have made over past several decades to their profession, through both research leadership. We highlight in following areas: land use conservation, non-market valuation, policy design, climate energy economics. Key examples leadership within Agricultural Applied Economics Associ...

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