Environmental Economics

Environmental Economics

An Introduction

Field, Barry C.

McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

03/1994

498

Dura

Inglês

9780071133081

0071133089

6800

A survey of environmental economics devoted to the issues and policy choices of importance not only to the US, but also globally, with particular emphasis on international issues. Learning aids such as summaries and questions for further discussion are also included.
Part 1 Introductory: What is Environmental Economics?; The Economy and the Environment. Part 2 Analytical Tools: Benefits and Costs, Supply and Demand; Economic Efficiency and Markets; The Economics of Environmental Quality. Part 3 Environmental Analysis: Frameworks of Analysis; Benefit-Cost Analysis: Benefits; Benefit-Cost Analysis: Costs. Part 4 Environmental Policy Analysis: Criteria for Evaluating Environmental Policies; Decentralised Policies: Liability Laws, Property Rights, Moral Suasion; Command and Control Strategies, The Case of Standards; Incentive-Based Strategies: Emission Taxes and Subsidies; Incentive-Based Strategies: Transferable Discharge Permits. Part 5 Environmental Policy in the United States; Federal Water Pollution Control Strategy; Federal Air Pollution Control Policy; Federal Policy of Toxic and Hazardous Substances; State and Local Environmental Issues. Part 6 International Environmental Issues: Environmental Policies in Other Industrialised Countries; Economic Development and the Environment; The Global Environment; International Environmental Agreements.
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