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Working Paper Series Subject Area Classifications

Environmental Management
1. General
2. Water Pollution
3. Water Supply
4. Air Pollution
5. Ambient Air Quality
6. Indoor Air Quality
7. Solid Waste
8. Hazardous Waste
9. Toxic Substances
10. Economic Damages/Benefits
11. Health
12. Recreation
13. Visibility
14. Existence/Nonuse Values
15. Valuation Methods
16. Risk Assessment
17. Costs of Pollution Control
18. Pollution Control Options and Economic Incentives
19. Industrial Sources
20. Transportation
21. Enforcement Issues

Renewable Resources and Conservation
22. General
23. Marine/Coastal Zone Resources
24. Fisheries
25. Forests
26. Land Use
27. Water Resources
28. Biodiversity
29. Recreation/Travel Demand
30. Ecotourism
31. Sustainable Development

Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation
32. General
33. Energy
34. Electric Power
35. Motor Fuels
36. Minerals
37. Growth Issues/Intergenerational Equity

Agriculture
38. General
39. Sustainable Agriculture
40. Irrigation
41. Land Use
42. Soil Erosion
43. Non-Point Source Pollution

International and Global Issues
44. General
45. Climate Change
46. Acid Rain
47. International Trade
48. Population
49. Environment and Development
50. Ozone Depletion

Institutional Issues
51. General
52. Environmental Policy
53. Environmental Law
54. Political Economy
55. Property Rights
56. Environmental Accounting

Policy Analysis
57.  Benefit-Cost Analysis
58.  Discounting
59.  Economic Impacts
60.  Distributional Effects
61.  Modeling
62.  Valuation

Other
63. Children's Health
64. Epidemiology
65. Cross-media pollution
66. Atmospheric Deposition
67. Eutrophication
68. Exposure Assessment
69. Biomonitoring