Economics and the Environment
4th Edition
Published on 9. February 2004
Book
Hardback
560 pages
978-0-471-47054-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 196 mm
Weight
964 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-47054-0 (9780471470540)
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Previous edition
Eban S. Goodstein
Economics and the Environment
Book
07/2001
3rd Edition
Wiley
€78.75
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Content
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 and Resource Degradation as Externalities.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: Implementing the Efficiency Standard.Chapter 11. Is More Really Better? Consumption and Welfare.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.Selected Web Site for Environmental and Natural Economists.Author Index.Subject Index.