Economics and the environment / Eban S. Goodstein.
Material type: TextPublication details: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2008Edition: 5th edDescription: xvi, 512 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0471470546 (cloth)Subject(s): Economic development -- Environmental aspectsDDC classification: 333.7GOO LOC classification: HD75.6 | .G66 2005Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Ch. 1. Four Economic Questions about Global Warming -- Pt. I. How Much Pollution is Too Much? -- Ch. 2. Ethics and Economics -- Ch. 3. Pollution and Resource Degradation as Externalities -- Ch. 4. The Efficiency Standard -- Ch. 5. The Safety Standard -- Ch. 6. Sustainability: A Neoclassical View -- Ch. 7. Sustainability: An Ecological View -- Ch. 8. Measuring the Benefits of Environmental Protection -- Ch. 9. Measuring the Costs of Environmental Protection -- Ch. 10. Benefit - Cost in Practice: Implementing the Efficiency Standard -- Ch. 11. Is More Really Better? Consumption and Welfare -- Pt. II. Is Government up to the Job? -- Ch. 12. The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation -- Ch. 13. An Overview of Environmental Legislation -- Ch. 14. The Regulatory Record: Achievements and Obstacles -- Ch. 15. Monitoring and Enforcement -- Pt. III. How Can we do Better? -- Ch. 16. Incentive-Based Regulation: Theory -- Ch. 17. Incentive-Based Regulation: Practice -- Ch. 18. Promoting Clean Technology: Theory -- Ch. 19. Promoting Clean Technology: Practice -- Ch. 20. Energy Policy and the Environment -- Pt. IV. Can We Resolve Global Issues? -- Ch. 21. Poverty, Population, and the Environment -- Ch. 22. Environmental Policy in Poor Countries -- Ch. 23. The Economics of Global Agreements -- Selected Web Sites for Environmental and Natural Resource Economists.
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