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by: Kolstad, Charles D.

ISBN: 9780199732647 | 0199732647

Environmental Economics is the first text to concentrate solely on environmental economics--the problems of earth, air, and water pollution from an economic perspective--with an emphasis on both government regulation and private-sector anti-pollution incentives. With the assumption that readers already have an understanding of intermediate microeconomics, the book reaches into more detail on theory and analysis than most other textbooks in this area. Now fully revised in its second edition, Environmental Economics is divided into four primary s... MOREections: the first section defines the field of environmental economics in relation to general economics and to ecological and resource economics; the second section is normative, looking at market failure and asks why, even with apparent environmental protection, the market often fails to work properly; the third section is positive, examining government regulation of pollution using the industrial organization literature; and the final section covers more advanced topics, looking at risk, uncertainty, green accounting, international competition and cooperation and development. Including many international examples, the book places special emphasis on the ways that countries around the world approach and control their own environmental problems. Environmental Economics , Second Edition, is ideal for undergraduate economics courses and beginning graduate courses in environmental management.

Preface
PART I: Introduction
1. The Environment and Economics
2. Normative and Positive Economic Analysis
PART II. How Much Environmental Quality?
3. Social Choice: How Much Environmental Protection?
4. Efficiency and Markets
5. Market Failure: Public Goods, Public Bads and Externalities
6. Making Decisions about Environmental Programs
7. Demand for Environmental Goods
8. Hedonic Price Methods
9. Household Production
10. Constructed Markets
Part... MORE III: Regulating Individuals and Firms
11. Regulating Pollution
12. Prices
13. Property rights
14. Spatial and Temporal Issues
15. Regulating Polluters with Unknown Costs
16. Audits, Enforcement and Moral Hazard
17. Voluntary Actions and Agreements
Part IV: Advanced Topics
18. Risk and Uncertainty
19. International and Interregional Competition
20. Environment, Growth and Development

Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara