Economics of the Environment
Theory and Policy
5th Edition
Published on 20. May 1998
Book
Hardback
XIV, 313 pages
978-3-540-63921-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book interprets nature and the environment as a scarce resource, offering a study of the allocation problem and outlining alternative policy approaches to the environmental problem. The author incorporates several economic approaches, including neoclassical analysis, the public goods approach and optimization theory. The sixth edition includes new sections on ethical aspects of environmental evaluation, pollution and endogenous growth, implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, international emission trading and biodiversity.
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Edition
5th rev. ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
650 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-63921-3 (9783540639213)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-11594-7
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
09/2004
6th Edition
Springer
€90.90
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Previous edition
Book
06/1995
4th Edition
Springer
€85.59
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Content
Introduction: The Problem.- Using the Environment - An Allocation Problem.- Static Allocation Aspect: Production Theory and Transformation Space; Optimal Environmental Use; Environmental Quality as a Public Good; Property-Rights Approach to the Environmental Problem.- Environmental-Policy Instruments: Incidence of an Emission Tax; Policy Instruments; Policy Instruments and the Casuistics of Pollution; The Political Economy of Environmental Scarcity.- Environmental Allocation in Space: Environmental Endowment, Competitiveness and Trade; Transfrontier Pollution; Global Environmental Media; Regional Aspects of Environmental Allocation.- Environmental Allocation in Time and under Uncertainty: Long-Term Aspects of Environmental Quality; Economic Growth, Sustainability and Environmental Quality; Risk and Environmental Allocation.