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"Superfund liability). This is an issue that is currently having an dramatic impact on the industry. The impact is being felt in transactions involving the potential sale of properties, insuring operations, development of new properties, joint ventures, or more generally, practically every phase of the mining firms operation. The second issue focuses on an environmental topic that has not been specifically addressed in federal legislation, although it has been indirectly considered, that is global warming or the ""greenhouse effect"". One of the interesting aspects to this environmental problem is the uncertainty associated with it at every phase of the analysis. The predictions of the general circulation models of climatologists are questioned due to the uncertainty of ocean effects, urbanization, etc. (see Burness & Martin, Chapter 5). The economic models are criticized for the uncertainty associated with the benefit estimates from reducing greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide (COJ, concentrations in the atmosphere as well as estimates of the cost of reducing GHG concentrations and/or emissions. This raises the interesting question of what is the optimal policy and what will be the impact of this policy(s) on the mining sector, given the uncertainty. The first of these two topics is addressed by V. Kerry Smith and Ronald G. Cummings, et al. Professors Smith and Cummings were chosen due to their pioneering work in the area of valuation of nonmarket goods, particularly involving the use of survey methods."

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Author:   Wade E. Martin
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.225kg
ISBN:  

9789401046176

ISBN 10:   9401046174
Pages:   130
Publication Date:   05 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Mining and the Environment: An Introduction.- Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Valuing Nonmarket Goods.- Global Warming and the Mining Sector.- II. Natural Resource Damage Assessments and the Mineral Sector: Valuation in the Courts.- Natural Resource Damage Assessment: An Overview.- Applying Nonmarket Valuation Methods in NRDA.- Complete Restoration, Strict Liability, and Efficiency.- NRDA and the Mineral Industry.- III. Valuing Environmental Damages With the Contingent Valuation Method: A Critique.- Overview of the Problem.- Do CVM Subjects Understand the Good Which They are to Value?.- Do CVM Subjects Understand the Hypothetical Market?.- What is the Empirical Content of CVM Value Responses?.- Concluding Remarks.- IV. Intergenerational Fairness & Global Warming.- Regional Impacts of Global Warming.- Intertemporal Impacts of Global Warming.- Economic Mitigation Strategies.- Summary and Conclusions.- V. The Effects of Global Warming on the Mining Industry: Issues, Tradeoffs & Options.- The Physical Nature of Global Warming.- A Heuristic Economic Model of Global Warming.- Effects on the Mining Industry.- Summary and Conclusions.

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