Environmental economics : an elementary introduction / R. Kerry Turner, David Pearce and Ian Bateman.

By:

Turner, R. Kerry

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TextPublication details: New York, etc. : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994.Description: viii, 328 p. : ill. b&w. ; 24 cmISBN:

0745010830

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Environmental economics

DDC classification:

333.72

Contents:

Pt. 1. Economics and the environment -- Ch. 1. The big economy -- Ch. 2. Environment and ethics -- Ch. 3. Economic growth, population growth and the environment -- Ch. 4. Sustainable development -- Pt. 2. The cases of environmental degradation -- Ch. 5. How markets work and why they fail -- Ch. 6. How governments fail the environment -- Pt. 3. Decision-making and the environment -- Ch. 7. Cost-benefit thinking -- Ch. 8. Valuing concern for nature -- Ch. 9. Coping with uncertainty -- Pt. 4. The economic control of the environment -- Ch. 10. Using the market to protect the environment -- Ch. 11. Charging for the use of the environment -- Ch. 12. Green taxes -- Ch. 13. Trading environmental permits -- Ch. 14. Setting environmental standards -- Pt. 5. Natural resources -- Ch. 15. Renewable resources -- Ch. 16. Non-renewables resources -- Pt. 6. Environmental economics in action -- Ch. 17. Business and the environment -- Ch. 18. Managing waste -- Ch. 19. Climate change -- Ch. 20. Economics and the ozone layer -- Ch. 21. Conserving biological diversity -- Ch. 22. International environmental policy: acid rain -- Ch. 23. Environment in the developing world.

Summary: The subject of environmental economics is at the forefront of the green debate: the environment can no longer be viewed as an entity separate from the economy. This major new text analyses contemporary environmental issues from the point of view of economics effects and their consequences for human wellbeing. Environmental Economics introduces the student and the interested non-specialist alike to environmental problems and their economic impacts. This book assesses the economic importance of environmental degradation, analyses the economic causes of degradation and points to the design of economic incentives to slow, halt, or reverse that degradation.

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Includes index.

Pt. 1. Economics and the environment --
Ch. 1. The big economy --
Ch. 2. Environment and ethics --
Ch. 3. Economic growth, population growth and the environment --
Ch. 4. Sustainable development --
Pt. 2. The cases of environmental degradation --
Ch. 5. How markets work and why they fail --
Ch. 6. How governments fail the environment --
Pt. 3. Decision-making and the environment --
Ch. 7. Cost-benefit thinking --
Ch. 8. Valuing concern for nature --
Ch. 9. Coping with uncertainty --
Pt. 4. The economic control of the environment --
Ch. 10. Using the market to protect the environment --
Ch. 11. Charging for the use of the environment --
Ch. 12. Green taxes --
Ch. 13. Trading environmental permits --
Ch. 14. Setting environmental standards --
Pt. 5. Natural resources --
Ch. 15. Renewable resources --
Ch. 16. Non-renewables resources --
Pt. 6. Environmental economics in action --
Ch. 17. Business and the environment --
Ch. 18. Managing waste --
Ch. 19. Climate change --
Ch. 20. Economics and the ozone layer --
Ch. 21. Conserving biological diversity --
Ch. 22. International environmental policy: acid rain --
Ch. 23. Environment in the developing world.

The subject of environmental economics is at the forefront of the green debate: the environment can no longer be viewed as an entity separate from the economy. This major new text analyses contemporary environmental issues from the point of view of economics effects and their consequences for human wellbeing.
Environmental Economics introduces the student and the interested non-specialist alike to environmental problems and their economic impacts. This book assesses the economic importance of environmental degradation, analyses the economic causes of degradation and points to the design of economic incentives to slow, halt, or reverse that degradation.

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