Environmental Economics and Sustainability

Brian Chi-ang Lin is Professor and Chair in the Department of Public Finance at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He is also Associate Editor for The Journal of Economic Surveys and Forum for Social Economics. Siqi Zheng is Professor and Director of the Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University. Dr. Zheng has published in numerous international journals and is the Associate Editor of Journal of Economic Surveys, an editorial board member of the Journal of Housing Economics and International Real Estate Review, and Vice General Secretary of the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress.

1. A New Direction in Environmental Economics 1 Brian Chi-ang Lin and Siqi Zheng 2. Detecting Volcanic Eruptions in Temperature Reconstructions by Designed Break-Indicator Saturation 7 Felix Pretis, Lea Schneider, Jason E. Smerdon and David F. Hendry 3. Structural Equation Modelling and the Causal Effect of Permanent Income on Life Satisfaction: The Case of Air Pollution Valuation in Switzerland 39 Eleftherios Giovanis and Oznur Ozdamar 4. The Decomposition and Dynamics of Industrial Carbon Dioxide Emissions for 287 Chinese Cities in 1998 2009 71 Maximilian Auffhammer, Weizeng Sun, Jianfeng Wu and Siqi Zheng 5. Environmental Sustainability and the Greened Samuelson Rule 95 Yunmin Chen, Brian Chi-ang Lin and John E. Anderson 6. Household Cooperation in Waste Management: Initial Conditions and Intervention 111 Marie Briguglio 7. One without the Other? Behavioural and Incentive Policies for Household Waste Management 143 Ankinee Kirakozian 8. Economic Evolution in China s Ecologically Fragile Regions 173 Xiangzheng Deng, ZhanWang and Chunhong Zhao 9. Globalization and Climate Change: New Empirical Panel Data Evidence 201 Maoliang Bu, Chin-Te Lin and Bing Zhang 10. A Survey of the Literature on Environmental Innovation Based on Main Path Analysis 221 Nicolo Barbieri, Claudia Ghisetti, Marianna Gilli, Giovanni Marin and Francesco Nicolli 11. Economic Targets and Loss-Aversion in International Environmental Cooperation 251 Doruk Iris 12. Cooperative Game Theory Applied to IEAS: A Comparison of Solution Concepts 279 Marco Rogna Index 311