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9780471763093

Economics and the Environment, 5th Edition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780471763093

  • ISBN10:

    0471763098

  • Edition: 5th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-08-01
  • Publisher: WILEY
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Summary

This book examines a broad range of topics in environmental and natural resource economics. It presents in-depth treatment of important issues at the cutting edge of environmental policy debates. The focus is on equipping readers with the tools necessary to analyze current environmental issues as an economist would.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Four Economic Questions About Global Warming
How Much Pollution is Too Much?
Ethics and Economics
Pollution and Resource Degradation as Externalities
The Efficiency Standard
The Safety Standard
Sustainability: A Neoclassic View
Sustainability: An Ecological View
Measuring the Benefits of Environmental Protection
Measuring the Costs of Environmental Protection
Benefit-Cost in Practice: Implementing the Efficiency Standard
Is More Really Better? Consumption and Welfare
Is Government up to the Job?
The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation
An Overview of Environmental Legislation
The Regulatory Record: Achievements and Obstacles
Monitoring and Enforcement
How Can we do Better?
Incentive-Based Regulation
Incentive-Based Regulation: Practice
Promoting Clean Technology: Theory
Energy Policy and the Environment
Can we Resolve Global Issues?
Poverty, Population, and the Environment
Environmental Policy in Poor Countries
The Economics of Global Agreements
Selected Websites
Author Index
Subject Index
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