The Annual Review of Resource Economics provides authoritative critical reviews evaluating the most significant research developments in resource economics, focusing on agricultural economics, environmental economics, renewable resources, and exhaustible resources.

This groundbreaking series provides a forum in which leading scholars evaluate the most important contemporary advances in the field of resource economics. These scholars lay out the most important developments, writing with technical precision for a broad audience of scholars across the economics and related disciplines.

Some topics reviewed in the first volume include: GMO: Intellectual Property: The Economics of Invasive Species; Industrial Organization in Food Industries; Consolidation of the Food Industries in Developing Countries; Economics of Nutrition and Health; Governance Structures and Policy Reform; Reduced Form vs. Structural Modeling in Environmental/Resource Economics; Models Integrating Ecology and Economics; Payment for Ecosystem Services; Market Design for Tradable Pollution Rights; Environmental Health; The Economics of Invasive Species; The Economics of Endangered Species; Management of Fisheries; Recent Developments in Renewable Technologies: R&D Investment/Synthetic Biology; Fuel vs Food; Market Design: Water Allocations, Rights and Markets; Land Use and Climate Change; Policy Instruments in a Carbon-Neutral World; Rural Poverty and Economic Development; Political Economy in Resource-Based Developing Countries; Public-Private Partnerships: Structure of Contracts; Economics of Energy Conservation; Supply and Demand of Electricity in the Developing World; Wither Hotelling? Tests of the Theories of Exhaustible Resource Pricing; Rent Taxation for Natural Resources.

The Annual Review of Resource Economics is designed for readers with a general background in economics, as well as a broad range of scientists interested in the intersection of the natural sciences with public policy and analytical economics. It is particularly ideal for economists and other social scientists, as well as those in the fields of business and public policy, whether in government, research institutions, or academic life. Essentially, the Annual Review of Resource Economics can serve as a rolling textbook or desk reference for all those seeking authoritative and up-to-date information about the nexus between resource economics, science, and public policy.

Editorial Committee

Gordon Rausser, Coordinating Editor
Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor
University of California, Berkeley

Vernon Smith
Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science
George Mason University

Vernon Ruttan
Applied Economics
University of Minnesota

V. Kerry Smith
Economics Department
Arizona State University

David Zilberman
Agriculture and Resource Economics
University of California, Berkeley

John List
Department of Economics
The University of Chicago and NBER

Paul Joskow [also Director, Sloan Foundation]
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management
Director, MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

Maureen Cropper [also at World Bank]
Department of Economics
University of Maryland

Sir Partha Dasgupta
Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics
Cambridge University

David Newbery
Professor of Applied Economics,
Cambridge University

Geoffrey Heal
Paul Garret Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility
Columbia University