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Barry Field's Environmental Economics, 3e, examines all the facets of the connection between environmental quality and the economic behavior of individuals and groups of people. The book contains 21 chapters covering Cost and Benefits of Environmental Policy, Environmental Analysis, Policy Analysis, US Policy (Air Pollution, Toxic Wastes, State and Local Issues), and International Environmental Issues. Barry Field's other text with McGraw-Hill/Irwin, Natural Resource Economics (©2001), may be packaged with Environmental Economics, 3e, at a discount.

Barry C. Field is Professor of Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Preface
Section I Introduction
1 What is Environmental Economics?
2 The Economy and the Environment
Section II Analytical Tools
3 Benefits and Costs, Supply and Demand
4 Economic Efficiency and Markets
5 The Economics of Environmental Quality
Section III Environmental Analysis
6 Frameworks of Analysis
7 Benefit-Cost Analysis: Benefits
8 Benefit-Cost Analysis: Costs
Section IV Environmental Policy Analysis
9 Criteria for Evaluating Environmental Policies
10 Decentralized Policies
11 Command-and-Control Strategies: The Case of Standards
12 Incentive-Based Strategies: Emission Charges and Subsidies
13 Incentive-Based Strategies: Transferable Discharge Permits
Section V Environmental Policy in the United States
14 Federal Water Pollution-Control Policy
15 Federal Air Pollution-Control Policy
16 Federal Policy on Toxic and Hazardous Substances
17 State and Local Environmental Issues
Section VI International Environmental Issues
18 Environmental Issues in Other Industrialized Countries
19 Economic Development and the Environment
20 The Global Environment
21 International Environmental Agreements
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

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Environmental Economics

Environmental Economics

0072429216

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Section I Introduction

1 What is Environmental Economics?

2 The Economy and the Environment

Section II Analytical Tools

3 Benefits and Costs, Supply and Demand

4 Economic Efficiency and Markets

5 The Economics of Environmental Quality

Section III Environmental Analysis

6 Frameworks of Analysis

7 Benefit-Cost Analysis: Benefits

8 Benefit-Cost Analysis: Costs

Section IV Environmental Policy Analysis

9 Criteria for Evaluating Environmental Policies

10 Decentralized Policies

11 Command-and-Control Strategies: The Case of Standards

12 Incentive-Based Strategies: Emission Charges and Subsidies

13 Incentive-Based Strategies: Transferable Discharge Permits

Section V Environmental Policy in the United States

14 Federal Water Pollution-Control Policy

15 Federal Air Pollution-Control Policy

16 Federal Policy on Toxic and Hazardous Substances

17 State and Local Environmental Issues

Section VI International Environmental Issues

18 Environmental Issues in Other Industrialized Countries

19 Economic Development and the Environment

20 The Global Environment

21 International Environmental Agreements

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Supplemental Materials