Environmental Economics & the Mining Industry Book

I	Mining and the Environment: An Introduction	1
	Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Valuing Nonmarket Goods	4
	Global Warming and the Mining Sector	9
II	Natural Resource Damage Assessments and the Mineral Sector: Valuation in the Courts	15
	Introduction	15
	Natural Resource Damage Assessment: An Overview	17
	Applying Nonmarket Valuation Methods in NRDA	22
	Complete Restoration, Strict Liability, and Efficiency	34
	NRDA and the Mineral Industry	35
III	Valuing Environmental Damages With the Contingent Valuation Method: A Critique	53
	Overview of the Problem	53
	Do CVM Subjects Understand the Good Which They are to Value?	54
	Do CVM Subjects Understand the Hypothetical Market?	63
	What is the Empirical Content of CVM Value Responses?	67
	Concluding Remarks	72
IV	Intergenerational Fairness & Global Warming	79
	Introduction	79
	Regional Impacts of Global Warming	80
	Intertemporal Impacts of Global Warming	89
	Economic Mitigation Strategies	93
	Summary and Conclusions	97
V	The Effects of Global Warming on the Mining Industry: Issues, Tradeoffs & Options	107
	Introduction	107
	The Physical Nature of Global Warming	109
	A Heuristic Economic Model of Global Warming	112
	Effects on the Mining Industry	119
	Summary and Conclusions	124