Annotated bibliography of economic literature on wetlands

This report attempts to help natural resource economics, wetlands scientists, resource managers, government officials, and sportsmen better understand controversies surrounding wetlands allocations by surveying some of recent economic literature on wetlands. It deals almost exclusively with academic literature, through some of the best work cited is policy or management oriented. This report is, in fact, a particular kind of survey paper--an annotated bibliography of the recent (post-1965) economic literature on wetlands--but it has a good deal in common with survey papers that attempt to weigh, assess, and evaluate the ensemble of contributions that have occurred in any fast developing field of social research. An effort has been made to list the relevant literature in this report, and to interpret, analyze, and evaluate this literature in accompanying commentaries.