Environmental Economics
ISBN: 9780073375762 | 0073375764
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Pub. Date: 9/4/2008
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Martha K. Field is Dean of Institutional Support and Advancement and Professor of Economics at Greenfield Community College. Barry C. Field is Professor of Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Environmental Economics is an introduction to the basic principles of environmental economics as they have been developed in the past and as they continue to evolve. The examples discussed in this textbook represent only a sample of the full range of issues that actually exists. For this reason, t... MORE
Environmental Economics is an introduction to the basic principles of environmental economics as they have been developed in the past and as they continue to evolve. The examples discussed in this textbook represent only a sample of the full range of issues that actually exists. For this reason, t... MORE
| Introduction | |
| What is Environmental Economics | |
| The Economy and the Environment | |
| Analytical Tools | |
| Benefits and Costs, Supply and Demand | |
| Economic Efficiency and Markets | |
| The Economics of Environmental Quality | |
| Environmental Analysis | |
| Frameworks of Analysis | |
| Benefit-Cost Analysis: Benefits | |
| Benefit-Cost Analysis: Costs | |
| Environmental Policy Analysis | |
| Criteria for Evaluating Environmental Policies | |
| Decentralized Policies: Liability Laws, Property Rights, Voluntary Action | |
| Command-and-Control Strategies: The Case of Standards | |
| Incentive-Based Strategies: Emission Charges and Subsidies | |
| Incentive-Based Strategies: Transferable Discharge Permits | |
| Environmental Policy in the United States | |
| Federal Water Pollution-Control Policy | |
| Federal Air Pollution Control Policy | |
| Federal Polity on Toxic and Hazardous Substances | |
| State and Local Environmental Issues | |
| International Environmental Issues | |
| Comparative Environmental Policies | |
| Economic Development and the Environment | |
| The Global Environment | |
| International Environmental Agreements | |
| Appendix | |
| Abbreviations and Acronyms used in the book | |
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