UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA PROF. ADRIÁN G.

RODRÍGUEZ
ESCUELA DE ECONOMÍA II SEMESTRE 2002

XE-0556: ECONOMÍA AGRÍCOLA

(Tópicos de Economía Ambiental)

LISTA DE LECTURAS RECOMENDADAS

(ECAGR -DOC04-V01) (25/08/2002)

I. LA ECONOMÍA Y EL AMBIENTE
Boulding, Kenneth. (1992). The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth. En:
Markandya, A. & Richardon. J. (eds). Environmental Economics: a Reader (pp. 27-
35). New York: St. Martin Press. (Artículo original publicado en 1966). (Ver también
Earth as a Space Ship),
Daly, Herman. (Editor). (1997). The Contribution of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
(Número Especial), Ecological Economics, 22 (3).
Field, Barry. (1995). Economía Ambiental, una introducción. Santafé de Bogotá,
Colombia: McGraw-Hill, Inc. (Cap. 1, “¿Qué es Economía Ambiental?”, pp. 1-25; Cap.
2, “La Economía y el Ambiente”, pp. 26-50).
Pearce, David & Turner, Kerry. (1990). Economics of Natural Resources and the
Environment. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press. [Cap. 1, “The Historical
Development of Environmental Economics”, pp. 3-28; Cap. 2, “The Circular
Economy”, pp. 29-42; Cap 15, Environmental Ethics, pp. 226-238].
United Nations Environment Programme. (2002). Global Environmental Outlook 3: past,
present and future perspectives (Chapter 1: Integration Environment and
Development). New York: Naciones Unidas. [PDF].
Söllner, F. (1997). A reexamination of the role of thermodynamics for environmental
economics. Ecological Economics, 22 (3), 175-202.
Hanley, Nick; Shogren, Jason & White, Ben. (1997). Environmental Economics in Theory
and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press. [Cap. 1, “The Economy and the
Environment: Two Parts of a Whole”, pp. 1-21].

II. VALORACION ECONOMICA DEL AMBIENTE

Anderson, J.; Vadnjal, D, & Uhlin, H.E. (2000). “Moral dimensions of the WTA-WTP
disparity: an experimental examination”. Ecological Economics, 32 (1), 153-162.
Arrow, Kenneth; Solow, Robert; Portney, Paul; Leamer, Edward; Radner, Roy & Schuman,
Howard. (1993). Report of the NOAA Panel on Contingent Valuation. (Documento
Mimeografiado). Washington D.C.: NOAA.
Bartik, Timothy. (1998). “Evaluating the Benefits of Non-marginal Reductions in
Pollution Using Information on Defensive Expenditures”. Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management, 15, 111-127.

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Barton, David. (2002). The transferability of benefit transfer: contingent valuation of

water quality improvements in Costa Rica. Ecological Economics, 42 (1-2), 147-164.
(Versión disponible en PDF – solicitar al profesor).
Birgham, Gail; et. al. (1995). “Issues in Ecosystem Valuation: improving information for
decision-making”. Ecological Economics, 14 (2), 73-90.
Brookshire, David & Neill, Hellen. (1992). “Benefit Transfers: Conceptual and Empirical
Issues”. Water Resources Research, 28 (3), 651-655.
Brouwer, R. (2000). “Environmental value transfer: state of the art and future prospects”.
Ecological Economics, 32 (1), 137-152.
Brown, Thomas & Gregory, Robin. (1999). “Why the WTA-WTP disparity matters.
Ecological Economics, 28 (3), 325-335.
Carson, Richard. (1998). “Valuation of Tropical Rainforests: Philosophical and Practical
Issues in the Use of Contingent Valuation”, Ecological Economics, 24 (1), 15-29.
Carson, Richard. (1997). “Contingent Valuation: Theoretical Advances and Empirical
Tests since the NOAA Panel”. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 79 (5),
1501-1507.
Courant, Paul & Porter, Richard. (1988). “Averting Expenditure and the Cost of
Pollution”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 8, 321-329.
Desvousges, William; Johnson, F. Reed; Ruby, Melissa; Gable, Alicia. (1997). Valuing
Stated Preferences for health benefits of improved air quality: results of a pilot study
(Triangle Economic Research Working Paper No. T-9702). [PDF]
Diamond, Peter & Hausman, Jerry. (1994). “Contingent Valuation: is some Number
Better than no Number?. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8 (4), 45-64.
Dixon, John; Scura, L; Carpenter, R; & Sherman, P. (1999). Análisis Económico de
Impactos Ambientales (Mario Piedra, Trad.). Turrialba, Costa Rica: Centro Agronómico
de Investigación y Enseñanza. (Traducción de la segunda edición en Inglés, 1994).
Echeverría, Jaime; Hanrah, Michael & Solórzano, Raúl. (1995). “Valuation of Non-
priced Amenities Provided by the Biological Resources within the Monte Verde Cloud
Forest Preserve, Costa Rica”. Ecological Economics, 13, 43-52.
Farber, Stephen; Costanza, Robert & Wilson, Matthew. (2002). Economic and ecological
concepts for valuing ecosystem services. Ecological Economics, 41, 375-392. (Versión
disponible en PDF – solicitar al profesor).
Gustavson, Kent; Lonergan, Stephen & Ruitenbeek, Jack. (2002). Measuring
contributions to economic production – use of an index of captured ecosystem value.
Ecological Economics, 41, 479-490. (Versión disponible en PDF – solicitar al
profesor).
Grott, Ruddolf de; Wilson, Matthew & Boumans, Roelof. (2002). A typology for
classification, description and valuation of ecosystem functions, goods and services.
Ecological Economics, 41, 393-408. (Versión disponible en PDF – solicitar al
profesor).
Hanley, Nick; Mourato, Susana & Wright, Robert. (2001). Choice Modelling Approaches:
A Superior Alternative for Environmental Valuation?. Journal of Economic Surveys, 15
(3), 435-462.

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Hanley, Nick; Shogren, Jason & White, Ben. (1997). Environmental Economics in Theory
and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press. [Cap. 12, “The Theory of Non-
market Valuation”, pp. 356-382; Cap. 13, “Methods for Valuing Environmental Costs
and Benefits”, pp. 383-424].
Hanneman, W. Michael. (1994). “Valuing the Environment Through Contingent
Valuation”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18 (4), 19-43.
Howarth, Richard & Farber, Stephen. (2002). Accounting for the value of ecosystem
services. Ecological Economics, 41, 421-429. (Versión disponible en PDF – solicitar al
profesor).
Limburg, Karin; O´Neill, Robert; Costanza, Robert & Farber, Stephen. (2002). Complex
systems and valuation. Ecological Economics, 41, 409-420. (Versión disponible en
PDF – solicitar al profesor).
Mitchel, Robert & Carson, Richard. (1989). Using surveys to value public goods: the
contingent valuation method. Washington D. C.: Resources for the Future. [Cap. 1,
“Valuing Public Goods Using the Contingent Valuation Method”, pp. 1-16; Cap. 2,
“Theoretical Basis of the Contingent Valuation Method”, pp. 17-53; Cap. 3, “Benefits
and their Measurement”, pp. 55-90; Cap. 4, “Variations in Contingent Valuation
Scenario Designs”, pp. 91-105; Cap. 5, “The Methodological Challenge”, pp. 107-127].
Ostro, Bart. (1994). Estimating the Health Effects of Air Pollutants (a method with an
application to Jakarta (Policy Research Working Paper No. 1301). Washington, D. C.:
The World Bank. [PDF].
Ostro, Bart; Eskeland, Gunnar; Feyzioglu, Tarhan &.Sánchez, José. (1998). Air Pollution
and Health Effects: A Study of Respiratory Illness Among Children in Santiago, Chile.
Chile (Policy Research Working Paper No. 1932). Washington, D. C.: The World
Bank. [PDF]
Ostro, Bart; Sánchez, José; Aranda, Carlos & Eskeland, Gunnar. (1995). Air Pollution and
Mortality: Results from Santiago, Chile (Policy Research Working Paper No. 1453).
Washington, D. C.: The World Bank. [PDF]
Pearce, David & Turner, Kerry. (1990). Economics of Natural Resources and the
Environment. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press. [Cap. 9, “Measuring
Environmental Damage I: Total Economic Value”, pp. 120-140; Cap. 10, “Measuring
Environmental Damage II: Valuation Methodologies”, pp. 141-158].
Portney, Paul R. (1994). “The Contingent Valuation Debate: Why Economists Should
Care”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8 (4), 3-17.
Randall, Allan. (1997). “The NOAA Panel Report: A New Beginning or the End of an
Era”. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 79 (5), 1489-1494.
Rolfe, J.; Bennett, J. & Louviere, J. (2000). Choice modelling and its potential application
to tropical rainforest preservation. Ecological Economics, 35 (2), 289-302.
Rubby, Melissa; Desvouges, William; Johnson, F. Reed; Stieb, Dave& De Civita, Paul.
(1998). Eliciting Stated Preferences: an application to Willingness to Pay for Longevity
(Triangle Economic Research Working Paper No. T-9704). [PDF]
Shechter, Mordechai. (2000). “Valuing the Environment”. En: Folmer, Henk & Gabel,
H. Landis. (Eds.). Principles of Environmental and Resource Economics (2a. Ed., pp.
72-103). Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Shultz, Steve. (1997). “La Valoración de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales no basada en

el mercado en Centroamérica y el Caribe”. Revista de la CEPAL, No. 63, pp. 65-77.
[http://www.eclac.org/espanol/Publicaciones/cepal4.html].
Smith, V. Kerry. (1992). “On Separating Defensible Benefit Transfer from “Smoke and
Mirrors”. Water Resources Research, 28 (3), 685-694.
Smith, V. Kerry & Desvouges, William. (1986). “Averting Behavior: Does it Exist?”.
Economic Letters, 20, 291-296.
Stevens, T.H.; Belkner, R.; Dennis, D.; Kittredge, D. y Willis, C. (2000). Comparison of
contingent valuation and conjoint analysis in ecosystem management. Ecological
Economics, 32 (1), 63-74.

III. POLÍTICA AMBIENTAL

Barde, Jean-Philippe. (2000). “Environmental policy and policy instruments”. En:
Folmer, Henk & Gabel, H. Landis. (Eds.). Principles of Environmental and Resource
Economics (2a. Ed., pp. 157-201). Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, MA, USA:
Edward Elgar Publishing.
Banco Mundial. (1997). Cinco Años Después de Río: Innovaciones en las Políticas
Ambientales (Series de Monografías y Estudios Sobre el Desarrollo Ambiental
Sostenible No. 18). Washington D. C.: Banco Mundial. [PDF]
Field, Barry. (1995). Economía Ambiental, una introducción. Santafé de Bogotá,
Colombia: McGraw-Hill, Inc. [Cap. 9, “Criterios para Evaluar las Políticas
Ambientales”, pp. 213-223; Cap. 10, “Políticas Descentralizadas” pp. 224-243; Cap. 11,
“Estrategias de Regulación Directa y Control: el Caso de los Estándares”, pp. 244-267;
Cap. 12, “Estrategias Basadas en Incentivos: Impuestos y Subsidios a las Emisiones”,
pp. 268-293; Cap. 13, “Estrategias Basadas en Incentivos: Permisos Negociables de
Descargas”, pp. 294-310].
Gobierno de Costa Rica. (1996). Plan Nacional de Política Ambiental. San José, Costa
Rica: Ministerio de Planificación Nacional y Política Económica y Ministerio del
Ambiente y Energía.
Gobierno de Costa Rica. (1998). Una Sociedad en Armonía con la Naturaleza, base del
Desarrollo Sostenible. San José, Costa Rica: Ministerio de Planificación Nacional y
Política Económica, Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Sostenible.
Hanley, Nick; Shogren, Jason & White, Ben. (1997). Environmental Economics in Theory
and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press. [Cap. 3, “Economic Incentives for
Environmental Protection: an Overview”, pp. 58-98; Cap. 4, “Pollution Taxes for the
Efficient Control of Pollution”, pp. 106-129; Cap. 5, “Tradable Pollution Permits”, pp.
130-158].
Khanna, Madhu. (2001). Non-Mandatory Approaches to Environmental Protection.
Journal of Economic Surveys, 15 (3), 291-324.
Mckibbin, Warwick y Wilcoxen, Peter. The role of Economics in Climate Change Policy.
(2002). Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16 (2), 107-129. (Versión disponible en
PDF – solicitar al profesor).

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Ocampo, José Antonio. (1999). Políticas e Instituciones para el Desarrollo Sostenible en

América Latina y el Caribe (Serie Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo, No. 18). Santiago de
Chile: CEPAL, División de Medio Ambiente y Asentamientos Humanos. (disponible
en formato pdf en http://www.eclac.cl).
Pearce, David & Turner, Kerry. (1990). Economics of Natural Resources and the
Environment. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press. [Cap. 6, “Taxation and
Optimal Pollution”, pp. 884-101; Cap. 7, “Environmental Standards, Taxes and
Subsidies”, pp. 102-109; Cap. 8, “Marketable Pollution Permits”, pp. 110-119].
Portney, Paul. (2000). “Environmental Problems and Policy: 2000-2050”. Journal of
Economic Perspectives, 14 (1), 199-206. (Versión disponible en PDF – solicitar al
profesor).
Russell, Clifford & Powell, Philip. (1996). Choosing Environmental Policy Instruments,
Theoretical Cautions and Practical Considerations (No. ENV-102). Washington D.C.,
Inter-American Development Bank, Environment Division, Social Programs and
Sustainable Development Department.
Weber, David. (2002). Pollution Permits, a discussion of fundamentals. Journal of
Economic Education, 33 (2), 277-290. [PDF].
Zylicz, Tomasz. (2000). “Goals, principles and constraints in environmental policies”.
En: Folmer, Henk & Gabel, H. Landis. (Eds.). Principles of Environmental and
Resource Economics (2a. Ed., pp.202-232). Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, MA,
USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

IV. LA FIRMA Y EL AMBIENTE

Gabel, Landis. (1996). “Environmental Management as a competitive strategy: the case
of CFCs”. En: Folmer, Henk; H. Landis Gabel y Hans Opschoor (eds). Principles of
Environmental and Resource Economics (1ra. Ed., pp. 328-346). Cheltenham, UK –
Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Gabel, Landis & Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard. (1998). “The firm, its routines and the
environment”. En: Tietenberg, Tom & Folmer, Henk (eds). The International
Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 1998/1999 (pp. 89-118). ).
Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Gabel, Landis & Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard. (2000). “Corporate responses to
environmental concerns”. En: Folmer, Henk & Gabel, H. Landis. (Eds.). Principles of
Environmental and Resource Economics (2a. Ed., pp.265-279). Cheltenham, UK –
Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Helmut Karl & Orwat, Carsten. (1999). “Economic Aspects of Environmental Labelling”.
En: Folmer, Henk y Tom Tietenberg (eds.). The International Yearbook of
Environmental and Resource Economics 1999/2000 (pp. 107-170). Cheltenham, UK –
Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Lévêque, François & Nadaï, Alain. (2000). “A firm’s involvement in the policy-making
process”, En: Folmer, Henk & Gabel, H. Landis. (Eds.). Principles of Environmental
and Resource Economics (2a. Ed., pp.235-264). Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, MA,
USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

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OECD. (2000). Voluntary Approaches for Environmental Policy: An Assessment. París,

Francia: OECD.
Rodríguez, Adrián (editor). (1998). El Sector Productivo Frente a los Retos Ambientales.
San José, Costa Rica: MIDEPLAN/BID, Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo
Sostenible - ATN/SF/4717-CR.
Segerson, Kathleen & Li, Na. (1999). “Voluntary Approaches to Environmental
Protection”. En: Folmer, Henk y Tom Tietenberg (eds.). The International Yearbook
of Environmental and Resource Economics 1999/2000 (pp. 273-306). Cheltenham, UK
– Northampton, MA, , USA.: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Woodside, Gale; Aurrichio, Patrick & Yturri, Jeanne. (1998). ISO 14001 Implementation
Manual. New York: McGraw-Hill.

V. VALORIZACIÓN DE LA AGRICULTURA Y LA RURALIDAD

Anderson, Kym. (2000). Agriculture´s ´Multifunctionality´ and the WTO. The Australian
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 44 (3), 475-494.
Duke, Joshua y Aull-Hyde, Rondha. (2002). Identifying public preferences for land
preservation using the analytic hierarchy process. Ecological Economics, 42 (1-2), 131-
145. (Versión disponible en PDF – solicitar al profesor).
Echeverry, Rafael y Ribero, María del Pilar. (2002). Nueva Ruralidad: visión del
territorio en América Latina y el Caribe. Ciudad de Panamá: CIDER-IICA.
Edwards, Geoff y Fraser, Ian. (2001). Reconsidering agri-environmental policy permitted
by the Uruguay round agreement. Ecological Economics, 37 (2), 313-326. (Versión
disponible en PDF – solicitar al profesor).
Midmore, P. y Whittaker, J. (2000). Economics for sustainable rural systems. Ecological
Economics, 35 (2), 173-189. (Versión disponible en PDF – solicitar al profesor).
OECD. (2000). Valuing Rural Amenities. Paris: OECD.
Randall, Alan. (2002). Valuing the outputs of multifunctional agriculture. European
Review of Agricultural Economics, 29 (3), 289-307.
Potter, Clive y Burney, Jonathan. (2002). Agricultural Multifunctionality in the WTO –
legitimate non-trade concerns or disguised protectionism?. Journal of Rural Studies, 18
(1), 35-47. [PDF]
Vatn, Arild. (2002). Multifunctional agriculture: some consequences for international
trade regimes. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 29 (3), 309-327.