Environmental Economics

by Sankar, Ulaganathan

• ISBN13: 9780195659139
• ISBN10: 0195659139
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Environmental economics is one of the fastest growing branches of economic studies. This volume brings together several classic articles in the field on a wide range of topics such as externality, non-renewable resources, commons, valuation techniques, sustainability, poverty and environmental resource base, and environmental policy. An introductory paper on environmental policy deals with Indian environmental policy regime and addresses international environmental economic issues from the perspective of a developing country.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Externalities

The problem of social cost

Externalities: Formal analysis

Depletion of Non-Renewable Resources

The economics of exhaustible resources

Hotelling's The economics of exhaustible resources fifty years later

Degradation of Commons

The tragedy of the commons

An institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations

Valuation Techniques

Measuring the benefits and costs of pollution control

Contingent valuation and economics

Sustainability

Sustainability: An economist's perspective

Environmental accounting: An operational perspective

To slow or not to slow: The economics of the Greenhouse Effect

Development and the Environment

Poverty and the environmental resource base

Environmental policy

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