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Introduction to the Review
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If your desk los like ours, you have a stack of journals you have not had time to examine, let alone read. Added to this are the daily e-mails you receive from a host of online services, universities, think tanks, interest groups, colleagues, and an assortment of others informing you of yet another interesting article, essay, or book. Truth be told, we are all subject to a paper and electronic blizzard, and on many days this information overload becomes a cacophony of competing voices that may best be ignored. Why then is the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) launching a new journal? And how can weits editorscredibly claim that this is a journal you will really want to read?
The Review of Environmental Economics and Policy is intended to fill the significant gap that now exists between the popular press and scholarly environmental and resource economics journals. As