Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 28

11-July-2005

The Economics of Environmental Protection: A Middle East Oil and Gas Industry Perspective

By Paul E Hardisty

Prof Paul Hardisty, in this article for MEES, examines the economics of environmental protection in the Middle East from the perspective of the oil and gas industry, arguing that regulators in the region need to follow the lead of EU and other countries, which have placed formal cost-benefit analysis at the heart of environmental...