Book Summary of Economic-Environmental-Energy Interactions: Modeling and Policy Analysis by T. R. Lakshmanan & P. Nijkamp

Economic-Environmental-Energy Interactions: Modeling and Policy Analysis, T. R. Lakshmanan & P. Nijkamp, (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishing, 1980), 198 pp.

Economic-Environmental-Energy Interactions: Modeling and Policy Analysis is, as the title suggests, an examination to interactions. More specifically, the authors examine the role of modeling in the formulation of environmental policy.

Economic-Environmental-Energy Interactions: Modeling and Policy Analysis will be useful to those who seek to broaden their understanding of economic modeling. Each of the seven chapters which comprise the book is a free-standing essay. Multiple authors are represented. The first chapter is an examination of the use of integrated models for economic-energy-environmental impact analysis. The authors focus upon the Strategic Environmental Assessment System (SEAS) and apply this model to two scenarios for future, national energy supply. The operational methods for strategic environmental and energy policies are presented in chapter two. The authors examine composite scenarios for long-term environmental and energy policies.

William D. Watson, Jr. addresses the costs and benefits of water pollution control from a purely economic perspective. Chapter four examines long-run energy policies in an economic setting. In this context several models are presented for consideration. The next chapter is focused upon an integrated, inter-regional model for pollution control. Interactive compromise policy models are examined in some depth. The penultimate chapter presents the author's estimation of what the environmental impact issues in energy development in the United States are. In this context the Energy Research and Development Agency (ERDA) plan of 1977 is discussed. The final chapter is an examination of Dutch energy policies. The authors address the feasibility of application of these policies and the benefits of spreading negative effects which the energy mix policy would allow. Economic-Environmental-Energy Interactions: Modeling and Policy Analysis is an examination of the relationship between energy development and the environment from an exclusively economic perspective and will be useful to those who have an understanding of economic modeling.