The economics of pollution control in the Asia Pacific / edited by Robert Mendelsohn and Daigee Shaw.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Asia Pacific Environmental Economics / Robert Mendelsohn and Daigee Shaw -- 2. The Impact of Global Warming on Pacific Rim Countries / Robert Mendelsohn -- 3. The Framework Convention and Climate Change Policy in Asia / Jonathan Coppel and Hiro Lee -- 4. The Impact of Climate Change on Rice Yield in Taiwan / Huoying Wu -- 5. Acute Health Effects of Major Air Pollutants in Taiwan / Daigee Shaw, Tsu-Tan Fu and Lung-An Li [and others] -- 6. What is the Value of Reduced Morbidity in Taiwan? / Anna Alberini, Maureen Cropper and Tsu-Tan Fu [and others] -- 7. Hedonic Housing Values and Benefits of Air Quality Improvement in Taipei / Chung-Hsin Yang -- 8. Estimation of the Benefit of Air Quality Improvement: An Application of Hedonic Price Technique in Seoul / Seung-Jun Kwak, Gye-Pyeong Lee and Youngsub Chun -- 9. Measuring the Benefits of Air Quality Improvement in Taipei: A Comparison of Contingent Valuation Elicitation Techniques / Alan Yun Lu, Richard C. Bishop and Michael P. Welsh --

10. Exploring the Value of Drinking Water Protection in Seoul, Korea / Seung-Jun Kwak and Clifford S. Russell -- 11. Demand for Environmental Quality: Comparing Models for Contingent Policy Referendum Experiments / Pei-Ing Wu and Wen-Hua Hsieh -- 12. Hierarchial Government, Environmental Regulations, Transfer Payments and Incomplete Enforcement / Chung-Huang Huang -- 13. Political Economy and Pollution Regulation: Price Regulation in Open Lobbying Economies / Kai-Lih Chen -- 14. Doubtful Merits of Equal-rate Pigovian Taxes and Tradable Permits in Controlling Global Pollution / Hirofumi Shibata -- 15. Difficulty in Enforcing Efficient Prices for Regulating Shiftable Externalities / Jerome Geaun -- 16. Optimal Environmental Quality Improvement in a Multi-Goods R&D Growth Model / Victor T. Y. Hung and Pamela Chang.