Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buchholz studied Mathematics, Economics and Political Science at the Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen, where he got his Ph.D. in Economics in 1982 and finished his Habilitation in 1987. In 1988 he became an associate professor of economics at the University of Regensburg. After an interplay as a professor at the newly founded European University in Frankfurt (Oder) between 1992 and 1996 he returned to Regensburg - now as a full professor of public and environmental economics. Since 2002, he has also been a research professor at the ifo Institute in Munich. His main fields of research are international environmental economics, the theory of public goods, intertemporal evaluation and discounting, social protection and distribution policy and the links between economics and ethics.

Prof. Dr. Dirk T.G. Rübbelke is Professor of Economics at Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. Before he joined Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, he was IKERBASQUE Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (2010-2014), Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (2008-2010) and Junior Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology (2002-2008). He is also Research Associate at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, and Fellow Member in the CESifo Research Network, Munich. Prof. Rübbelke did research and taught at internationally renowned universities and research centres, such as Australian National University in Canberra, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Jadavpur University in Kolkata, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich and University of Nottingham.

Links the foundations of economic theory to empirical environmental concepts and policies

Focuses on both national and global environmental problems and policy instruments

Offers readers guidance in the form of chapter objectives, comprehension questions, and conclusions

Introduction: Economics and Environmental Degradation.- Environmental Externalities and Their Internationalization Through Voluntary Approaches.- Monetary Valuation of the Environment.- A Comparison of Environmental Policy Instruments.- International Environmental Problems.