This important collection brings together Peter Nijkamp’s work in the area of environmental and resource economics. The essays selected pay particular attention to theory and modelling, environmental analysis as well as policy issues and implications.

Contents: Preface Introduction Part I: Theory and Overview 1. Environmental and Resource Management 2. Externalities in Urban Sustainability: Environmental versus Localization-type Agglomeration Externalities in a General Spatial Equilibrium Model of a Single-sector Monocentric Industrial City 3. Integration of Economic and Ecological Indicators of Biodiversity 4. The Economics of Urban Drinking Water Use 5. Global Trends and Climate Change Policies Part II: Modelling Experiments 6. New Advances in Economic Modelling and Evaluation of Environmental Issues 7. A Multiregional Perspective on Growth and Environment: The Role of Endogenous Technology and Trade 8. Second-best Energy Policies for Heterogeneous Firms 9. Environmental Externalities in Air Transport Markets Part III: Evaluation Studies 10. Environmental Decision Making: A Comparison between Cost–Benefit Analysis and Multicriteria Decision Aid 11. Sustainability Assessment of Development Scenarios: Methodology and Application to Thailand 12. A Multi-criteria Decision Support Model and Geographic Information System for Sustainable Development Planning of the Greek Islands 13. Success Factors for Sustainable Urban Brownfield Development: A Comparative Case Study Approach to Polluted Sites 14. Why do Aircraft Noise Value Estimates Differ? A Meta-analysis Part IV: Policy Analysis 15. Transboundary Environmental Problems in the European Union: Lessons from Air Pollution Policies 16. Open Windows of Europe 17. Sustainable Transport: New Research and Policy Challenge for the Next Millennium 18. Socio-economic Dynamics and Spatial Mobility: A Scenario Application to Environmental Strategies in Transport 19. Energy Saving by Firms: Decision-making, Barriers and Policies Index