Economics and the Environment

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 Neoclassical 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: Theory; Incentive-Based Regulation: Practice; Promoting Clean Technology: Theory; Promoting Clean Technology: Practice; 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; Author Index; Subject Index