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9780471470540

Economics and the Environment, 4th Edition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780471470540

  • ISBN10:

    0471470546

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-02-01
  • Publisher: WILEY
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Summary

There are often no easy answers to environmental challenges. But asking the right questions leads to a clear and effective economic framework for understanding pressing environmental problems-from finding sites for landfills, to regulating chemical emissions from manufacturing plants, to preserving species diversity. Organized around these four key questions, Eban Goodstein's Fourth Edition offers in-depth analysis of important environmental policy debates, and equips readers with the tools necessary to understand these issues-as economists do.

Table of Contents

Preface.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. Four Economic Questions about Global Warming.
PART I: HOW MUCH POLLUTION IS TOO MUCH?
Chapter 2. Ethics and Economics.
Chapter 3. Pollution as an Externality.
Chapter 4. The Efficiency Standard.
Chapter 5. The Safety Standard.
Chapter 6. Sustainabilities: A Neoclassical View.
Chapter 7. Sustainabilities: An Ecological View.
Chapter 8. Measuring the Benefits of Environmental Protection.
Chapter 9. Measuring the Costs of Environmental Protection.
Chapter 10. Benefit-Cost in Practice.
Chapter 11. Is More Really Better?
PART II: IS GOVERNMENT UP TO THE JOB?
Chapter 12. The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation.
Chapter 13. An Overview of Environmental Legislation.
Chapter 14. The Regulatory Record: Achievements and Obstacles.
Chapter 15. Monitoring and Enforcement.
PART III: HOW CAN WE DO BETTER?
Chapter 16. Incentive-Based Regulation: Theory.
Chapter 17. Incentive-Based Regulation: Practice.
Chapter 18. Promoting Clean Technology: Theory.
Chapter 19. Promoting Clean Technology: Practice.
Chapter 20. Energy Policy and the Environment.
PART IV: CAN WE RESOLVE GLOBAL ISSUES?
Chapter 21. Poverty, Population, and the Environment.
Chapter 22. Environmental Policy in Poor Countries.
Chapter 23. The Economics of Global Agreements.
Author Index.
Subject Index. 

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