ng to stimulate basic changes in environmental
and economic policies, to set the stage for further progress.
discussion papers ($6 each) from RFF (Resources for the Future),
External Affairs, 1616 P St. NW, Washington DC 20036
Integrated Economic and Ecological Modeling for Public
Policy Decision Making, H. Dowlatabadi, L.H. Goulder, R.J.
Environmental Regulation and Technology Diffusion: The
Effects of Alternative Policy Instruments, A.B. Jaffe, R.N.
Cost-Benefit Analysis and International Environmental
Policy Decision Making: Problems of Income Disparity, D.
Burtraw, R.J. Kopp, 1994.
recent conference papers from ABARE (Australian Bur. Agric. &
Resour. Econ.), CPM, GPO Box 1563, Canberra 2601, Australia (tel:
06 272 2211; fax: 06 273 2588). One paper costs AUS$6; each
thereafter costs AUS$4.
Trade and Welfare Effects of Policies to Address Climate
Change. Two reports (Code 24 and Code 28) with the
Optimal Greenhouse Policy in a Multicountry World of
Growing Economies (Code 29).
Task Force on the Environment: The Politics and Ethics of Global
Environmental Leadership, J. Butler, 28 pp., 1994. Available
from Carnegie Council on Ethics & Intl. Affairs, 170 E. 64th
St., New York NY 10021.
From the second seminar of the Task Force (Oct. 14-16, 1992,
Tokyo). Delegates from both countries and observers of the U.N.
Conference on Environment and Development explored ethical
concerns underlying the meeting at Rio. Emphasizes the critical
need for ethics as the only logical means for making decisions
about environmental dilemmas that extend beyond national
the 21st Century: Planning for the Protection of California's
Environment, Comparative Risk Prog., Calif. Environ. Protect.
Agency, 600 pp., 1994.
Summarizes current scientific thinking on dozens of
environmental hazards, detailing the potential risks of each, and
ranking risks according to their effects on human health,
ecosystem health, and social welfare. Reviewed by R. Stone in Science,
p. 214, Oct. 14, 1994, who notes that the consensus on risk
breaks down in the report's social welfare category. For example,
even though increasing levels of greenhouse gases may pose only
modest health or ecological effects, they are deemed high-risk
hazards because of their potential harm in such areas as
"mental health, trust of governing institutions, access to
reliable information, personal security, and personal
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