Environmental Economics

Name: Environmental Economics
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ISBN: 9780195659139

ISBN-10: 0195659139

ISBN-13: 9780195659139

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ulaganathan Sankar

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Environmental economics is one of the fastest growing branches of economic studies. This volume brings together several classic articles in the field on a wide range of topics such as externality, non-renewable resources, commons, valuation techniques, sustainability, poverty and environmental resource base, and environmental policy. An introductory paper on environmental policy deals with Indian environmental policy regime and addresses international environmental economic issuesfrom the perspective of a developing country. The reader will interest students, researchers and policy-makers in the field of environment.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/27/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 478
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.54" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction


Externalities



The problem of social cost



Externalities: Formal analysis


Depletion of Non-Renewable Resources



The economics of exhaustible resources



Hotelling's The economics of exhaustible resources fifty years later


Degradation of Commons



The tragedy of the commons



An institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations


Valuation Techniques



Measuring the benefits and costs of pollution control



Contingent valuation and economics


Sustainability



Sustainability: An economist's perspective



Environmental accounting: An operational perspective



To slow or not to slow: The economics of the Greenhouse Effect


Development and the Environment



Poverty and the environmental resource base



Environmental policy